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Updated 6 January 2010



THE
UNITED STATES MARINES
I like the fact that if you are a self-declared
enemy of America , Running into a Marine outfit in combat is
your worst nightmare... And that your health record is either about to get a
lot thicker, or be closed out entirely.
I like the fact that Marines are
steadfast and consistent in everything they Do... Regardless of whether you
agree with them or not.
I like the fact that Marines view the term
'politically correct' with Nothing but pure disdain.
I like the fact
that Marines stand tall and rigid in their actions, thoughts, And deeds when
others bend with the direction of the wind and are as confused as A dog
looking at a ceiling fan.
I like the fact that each and every Marine considers the honor and legacy of
The Corps as his personal and sacred trust to protect and defend.
I like
the fact that most civilians don't have a clue what makes us tick. And that's
not a bad thing. Because if they did, it would probably scare the Hell out of
them.
I like the fact that others say they want to be like us, but don't
have What it takes in the Pain-Gain-Pride department to make it happen.
I like the fact that the Marines came into being in a bar, named
Tun Tavern. And
That Marines still gather in pubs, bars and slop chutes to share sea stories and
Hot scoop.
I like the fact that Marines do not consider it a coincidence
that there are 24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case.. Because Marines
know there is a reason For everything that happens.
I like our
motto... SEMPER FIDELIS, And the fact that we don't shed it When the going
gets tough, the battlefield gets deadly or when we hang up our Uniform for
the last time.
I like the fact that Marines take care of each other... In
combat and time of Peace.
I like the fact that Marines know the
difference between 'Chicken Salad' and 'Chicken Shit' and aren't afraid to
call either for What it is.
I like the fact that the people of America
hold Marines in the highest esteem And that they know that they can count on
us to locate, close with, and destroy Those who would harm them.
I
like the fact that people think we are cocky.... Yet we know that we have
Confidence in everything we do and the fact that they don't know the taste Of
that makes them look at us as if we are arrogant.
I like that fact that
we know the taste of freedom and would give our very Lives for it. And that
it is a taste the protected will ever know.
I like the fact that
Ronald Reagan
said... 'Some people spend an entire Lifetime wondering if they made a
difference... Marines don't have that Problem!'
I like the fact that
we are brothers to the end.... And that no matter what Happens in life, we
know that we have one another's 'six'.
I like the fact that an elected
member of congress felt compelled to Publicly accuse the Marine Corps of
being 'radical and extreme'. And I Also like the fact that our
Commandant informed that
member of congress that she Was absolutely correct and that he passed on his
thanks for the Compliment.
I like the fact that Marine leaders -
of every rank - know that issuing every Man and woman a black beret - or
polka-dotted boxer shorts for that matter - Does absolutely nothing to
promote morale, fighting spirit or combat Effectiveness..
I like the
fact that Marines are Marines first... Regardless of age, race, Creed, color,
sex, and national origin, or how long they served, their former Rank, or what
goals they achieve in life.
I like Marines...and I love the fact that I
am humbled to walk among the ranks Of other Marines.
I like the fact
that you always know where you stand with a Marine. With Marines, there is no
middle ground or gray area. There are only Missions, Objectives and Facts.
In closing...if you aren't a Marine, the next best thing is to have a
Marine for a husband, wife, and father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter,
best friend, or friend.
SAEPE EXPERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATRES
AETERNI (Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever)
SEMPER FIDELIS
Sergeant Gerald W. Colbert
Veteran
United States Marine Corps
Ser. # 648850
Rifle # 2424832
MOS: 0311/5841
1947-1952

THE WARRIOR’S CODE OF HONOR
at
www.militarycodeofhonor.com
As a combat veteran wounded
in one of America ’s wars, I offer to speak for those who cannot. Were the
mouths of my fallen front-line friends not stopped with dust, they would testify
that life revolves around honor. In war, it is understood that you give your
word of honor to do your duty -- that is -- stand and fight instead of running
away and deserting your friends. When you keep your word despite desperately
desiring to flee the screaming hell all around, you earn honor.
Earning honor under fire
changes who you are. The blast furnace of battle burns away impurities
encrusting your soul. The white-hot forge of combat hammers you into a
hardened, purified warrior willing to die rather than break your word to friends
-- your honor. Unbeknownst to civilians, some things are worth dying for.
Combat is scary but exciting.
You never feel so alive as
when being shot at without result.
You never feel so triumphant
as when shooting back -- with result.
You never feel love so pure
as that burned into your heart by friends willing to die to keep their word to
you. And they do.
The biggest sadness of your
life is to see friends falling. The biggest surprise of your life is to survive
the war. Although still alive on the outside, you are dead inside -- shot thru
the heart with nonsensical guilt for living while friends died. The biggest lie
of your life torments you that you could have done something more, different, to
save them. Their faces are the tombstones in your weeping eyes, their souls
shine the true camaraderie you search for the rest of your life but never find.
You come home but a grim
ghost of he who so lightheartedly went off to war. But home no longer exists.
That world shattered like a mirror the first time you were shot at. You live a
different world now. You always will.
Your world is about waking up
night after night silently screaming, back in battle.
Your world is about your best
friend bleeding to death in your arms, howling in pain for you to kill him.
Your world is about shooting
so many enemies the gun turns red and jams, letting the enemy grab you.
Your world is about
struggling hand-to-hand for one more breath of life.
You never speak of your
world. Those who have seen combat do not talk about it. Those who talk about
it have not seen combat.
The hurricane winds of war
have hurled you as far away as Mars, and you can never go back home again, not
really.
After your terrifying – but
thrilling dance with death, your old world of babies, backyards and
ballgames seems deadly dull.
People you knew before the
war try to make contact with you. It is useless. Words fall like bricks
between you.
Serving with warriors who
died proving their word has made prewar friends seem too untested to be trusted
– thus they are now mere acquaintances. Earning honor under fire has made you
alone, a stranger in your own home town.
The only time you are not
alone is when with another combat veteran. Only he understands that
keeping your word, your honor, whilst standing face to face with death gives
meaning and purpose to life. Only he understands that spending a mere 24
hours in the broad, sunlit uplands of battle-proven honor is more satisfying to
a man than spending a whole lifetime in safe, comfortably numb civilian life.
Although you walk thru life
alone, you are not lonely. You have a constant companion from combat -- Death.
It stands close behind, a little to the left. Death whispers in your ear:
“Nothing matters outside my touch, and I have not touched you...YET!”
Death never leaves you -- it
is your best friend, your most trusted advisor, your wisest teacher.
Death teaches you that every
day above ground is a fine day.
Death teaches you to feel
fortunate on good days, and bad days...well, they do not exist.
Death teaches you that merely
seeing one more sunrise is enough to fill your cup of life to the brim --
pressed down and running over!
Down thru the dusty centuries
it has always been thus. It always will be, for what is seared into a man’s
soul who stands face to face with death never changes.
Writer’s Note (1):
This work attempts to
describe the world as seen thru the eyes of a combat veteran. It is a world
virtually unknown to the public because few veterans talk about it. This is
unfortunate since people who are trying to understand, and make contact with
combat veterans, are kept in the dark.
I offer these poor,
inadequate words – bought not taught – in the hope that they may shed some small
light on why combat veterans are like they are.
It is my life desire that
this tortured work, despite it’s many defects, may yet still provide some tiny
sliver of understanding which may blossom into tolerance – nay, acceptance – of
a Warrior’s perhaps unconventional way of being due to combat-damaged emotions
from doing his duty under fire.
MOPH member number L63550.
Dedicated to absent friends
in unmarked graves.
CONTACT
Your invited to discuss how
the Warrior's Code makes you feel, how it describes your experience. All
feedback is welcome, both positive and
negative. The writer may be emailed at
10625@cox.net
(NOTE:
The discussion/Feedback section is not included in this email. It can be viewed
at www.militarycodeofhonor.com)

STRESS
A lecturer when explaining stress
management to anaudience,
raised a glass of water and asked
'How heavy is this glass of water?'
Answers called out ranged fro m 20g
to 500g.
The lecturer replied, 'The absolute
weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to
hold it.
If I hold it for a minute, that's
not a problem .
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have
an ache in my right arm .
If I hold it for a day, you'll have
to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight,
but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.'
He continued,
'And that's the way it is with
stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the
time, sooner or later,
as the burden becomes increasingly
heavy,
we won't be able to carry on.'
'As with the glass of water,
you have to put it down for a while
and rest before holding it again.
When we're refreshed, we can carry
on with the burden.'
'So, before you return home tonight,
put the burden of work down
Don't carry it home
You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you're carrying
now,
let them down for a moment if you
can.'
So, my friend, Put down anything
that may be a burden to you right now.
Don't pick it up again until after
you've rested a while.
Here are some great ways of dealing
with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you're the
pigeon,
and some days you're the
statue.
* Always keep your words soft and
sweet,
just in case you have to eat
them .
* Always read stuff that will make
you look good if you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's
not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least
have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never
see that person again,
it was probably worth it.
* It may be that your
sole purpose in life is simply be kind to others.
* Never put both feet in your mouth
at the same time,
because then you won't have a
leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance
well.
Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that
gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's
coming your way,
you're in the
wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you.
The more you have, the longer
you live.
* You may be only one person in the
world, but you may also be the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to
only make once.
* We could learn a lot from
crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird
names,
and all are different colors,
but they all have to live in the same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can
enjoy the scenery on a detour.

I really am tired of this
"politically correct" bullcrap. It's nothing more than a liberal ploy to attack
our basic
Christian values. Christianity is an
open target for anyone to slur and demean while every other sect or group is off
limits to any form of discussion. We are considered "racist" if we disagree
with government handouts to blacks or Hispanics or any other group whom the
liberals keep dependant upon themselves. We are "homophobes" if we believe in
our spiritual souls that
gay marriage is
against our core values. We are castigated as "wacky" Christians if we question
any of the liberal agenda on abortion, the death penalty for those who
cold-bloodedly kill first and have "remorse" afterward. I am not religious by
any means, but I believe in the basic tenets of the Bible and I believe there is
a God and that His plan does not include acceptance of those actions or
ideologies that are in direct opposition to those basic biblical tenets. While
it is my belief that God exists and watches over us, I also believe He is there
to guide us while we take up "arms" against these attacks. Our basic ammunition
is words and our weapons are the keyboard and the telephone. We all need to get
active in having our voices heard over the roar of the liberals via emails and
phone calls to our Senators, Congressmen/women and special interest groups.
Christians are still the MAJORITY but are being drowned out by an insidious
minority bolstered by the slanted, biased media. I hope you all join me in
writing and/or calling our representatives'. They are easily found by Googling
their names or the Senate and Congress. It takes only a few moments but will do
a world of good if we all join the battle and save this country from following
the fates of previous powers. America is still a good country with lots to give
the world if we continue to save the best of her from the degenerate ! designs
of those who hate us.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. God Bless all of you
with love and hope, peace and health.
Ray
"Frenchie" Quesnel

Very scary and very
important.....
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Juval Aviv
was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich' was based He was
Golda
Meir's bodyguard--she appointed him to track down and bring to justice
the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and
killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
(Aviv's bio is noted at end.)
He predicted the London subway bombing on
the Bill O'Reilly show on
Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time,
O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back
on the show. But, unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had
occurred.
Now for his future predictions . . . He
predicts the
next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget
hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will never try and
hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down
quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke--that we
have been reactionary rather than pro-active in developing strategies
that are truly effective. For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We
look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried
to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off
their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives.
Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some
suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which
point, security will have us all traveling naked. Every strategy we have
is 'reactionary.'
3) We only focus on security when people
are heading to the gates. Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets
airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of
the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for
someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in
line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while
they go to the restroom, and then detonate the bags before security even
gets involved. In Israel, security checks bags before people can even
enter the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here
in America is imminent and will involve
suicide
bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people
congregate. (i.e.,
Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New
York,
San
Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls,
subways in rush hour, train stations, etc, as well as rural America this
time (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).
The attack will be characterized by
simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big
impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas. Aviv says
terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger
cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in
Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk
away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known
in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to
'alarm American citizens' with the facts.The world is quickly going to
become 'a different place,' and issue like 'global warming' and
political correctness will become totally irrelevant.On an encouraging
note, he says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use
sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line
approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an
infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their
destiny.'He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America
should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be,
instead, 'homegrown' - having attended and been educated in our own
schools and universities right here in the U. S. He says to look for
'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the
Middle East
..
These young terrorists will be most
dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand
the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a
thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans
are unaware and uneducated about the
terroristic
threats we will, inevitably, face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in
our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change
that fact and soon.
So, what can America do to protect
itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to
stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to,
instead, follow
Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human
intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to trust
'aware' citizens to help.
We need to engage and educate ourselves
as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its
citizens, 'like babies.' Our government thinks we 'can't handle
the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the
realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security
test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five
well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person
called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago,
someone tried to steal the briefcase. In comparison, Aviv says
that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained that an unattended bag or
package would be reported in seconds by citizens who know to publicly
shout, 'Unattended Bag.' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by
the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been yet
'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the
need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that
it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense
against terrorism.
Aviv also was concerned about the high
number of children here in America who were in preschool and
kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to
pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best
care for the students until parents could get there. (In
New York City, this was days, in some cases.)
He stresses the importance of having a
plan, that's agreed upon within your family, to respond to in the event
of a terroristic emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's
schools and demand that the schools, too, develop plans of actions, as
they do in Israel.
Does
your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone?
Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a
plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and
follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has
in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will
immediately cut-off everyone's ability to use cell phones, blackberries,
etc., as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists
and is often the way that their bombs are detonated. How will you
communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak? You need
to have a plan.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/soapbox/juvalaviv.asp
Aviv's Bio as follows:
He holds an M.A. in Business from
Tel Aviv
University
and is President and CEO of Interfor, Inc., an international corporate
intelligence and investigations firm.Interfor, Inc. is now based in New
York , with offices around the world. It was founded in 1979 and
provides foreign and domestic intelligence services to legal, corporate
and financial communities around the world. Interfor, Inc. also conducts
investigations into terrorism and Mr. Aviv now serves as a special
consultant to the U. S. Congress, and other policy makers, here within
the U. S. on issues of terrorism, fraud and money laundering. Interfor's
services encompass white-collar crime investigations, asset search and
recovery,
corporate due diligence,
litigation support, fraud investigations, internal compliance
investigations and security and
vulnerability
assessments.
Since its inception, Interfor's asset investigation services have
recovered over $2 billion worldwide for its clients.
A leading authority on terrorist networks, Mr. Aviv
served as lead investigator for Pan Am Airways into the Pan Am
103-Lockerbie terrorist bombing. He was featured in the recent film,
Munich
, as the leader of the Israeli team that tracked down the terrorists who
kidnapped the Israeli Olympic team. Before founding Interfor, Mr. Aviv
served as an officer in the
Israel Defense Force
(Major, retired) leading an elite Commando/Intelligence Unit, and was
later selected by the
Israeli Secret Service
(Mossad) to participate in a number of intelligence special operations,
serving in many countries in the late
1960s and 1970s.
While working as a consultant with El Al, Mr. Aviv
surveyed the existing security measures in place and updated El Al's
security program, making El Al the safest airline in business today.
Most recently, Mr.. Aviv wrote a book entitled, 'Staying Safe: The
Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business.'
(2004, Harper Resource)
He has been a featured guest on ABC Nightline, FOX
News, CNN,
BBC Newsnight,
ZDF (German National Television) and RAI (Italian National
Television)--and has been featured in numerous articles in major
magazines and newspapers worldwide. |

This is an article written by Charlie Reese, a former columnist for the
Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. Very interesting
perspective on the state of our Nation!
545 PEOPLE
by Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then
campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are
against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and
high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal
Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine
Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out
of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually
responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board
because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated
its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered,
but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have
no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or
a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a
politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or
reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's
responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what
they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of
party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount
of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood
up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only
propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the
supreme law of the land, gives sole
responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving
appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of
the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can
approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass
it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545
people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and
irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not
traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth
that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must
follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not
available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire
and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can
reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom
they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief
that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation,"
or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people and they alone, are responsible.
They and they alone, have the power.
They and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their
bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you
appear to have several choices.
1. You can agree to vote against everyone that is currently in office, knowing
that the process will take several years.
2. You can decide to run for office yourself and agree to do the job
properly.
3. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.

'If you
don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed.'
-Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a
member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into
prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying
to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston
Churchill
A
government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always
depend on the support of Paul.
- George
Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his
fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your
money.
-G.
Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a
sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James
Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign
aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor
people in rich countries to rich people in poor
countries.
-Douglas Casey,
Giving money and power to g overnment is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J.
O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a
few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize
it.
-Ronald
Reagan (1986)
I don't
make jokes... I just watch the government and report the
facts.
-Will
Rogers
If you
think health care is expensive now; wait until you see
what it costs when it's free!
- P.J.
O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as
much money as possible from one party of the citizens to
give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not
take an interest in politics
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-P ericles (430 B.C.)
No man's
life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature
is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )
Talk is
cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown
The
government is like a baby's alimentary canal: a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
The
inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of
the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is
the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill
The only
difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The
ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of
folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert
Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is
no distinctly Native American criminal class....save
Congress.
-Mark
Twain
What
this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas
Jefferson
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Interesting To Consider.
I never thought of this......
This lady has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile
phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell
phone, credit card, wallet... etc... was stolen.
Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling
him what had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking about our Pin
number and I've replied a little while ago.'
When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money
was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to
text 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within
20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money
from their bank account.
Moral of the lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the
people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby,
Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc.... And very importantly, when sensitive info is
being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back. Also, when you're being
text by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to
confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very
careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON
I never thought about THAT! As of right now, I no longer have 'home' named
on my cell phone .

It is a sad state of affairs indeed, but let's look
at it from a different aspect. God either is
or is not, depending on each
individuals belief. Nothing can change that. Now let's look at what has
happened to make us feel this angry. Evidence proves that 84% of Americans
are believers. That leaves 16% who are either on the fence or unbelievers.
It's not about religion, Catholic or Protestant or Muslim or any other
religion, it's about our belief in God. Our forefathers believed in God as
is so very obvious in our most honored and sacrosanct documents, the
Constitution,
Declaration of Independence and the
Federalist Papers.
They were here and demanding independence from a tyrannical government who
would not give them freedom to believe as they wished so their beliefs were
well grounded. As history tells, we won, all was well and we prospered and
grew as a new country into the bastion of freedom the entire world looks up
to today. Well at least up to yesterday. As we grew into our freedom, we
also found new levels of wealth for all the people. Along with this wealth
came the satisfaction of being able to do more and have more. As we found
this new form of financial freedom, some became more enamored with
self-gratification. Our basic tenants began to change from those
established by our God into various degrees of new accountabilities
determined by the cravings of our "flesh". We became more tolerant. We
became a society which accepted things which didn't directly affect us as
long as we were left alone to live our lives the way we wanted to. For the
vast majority, this was the best course of our pursuit of happiness, just
let things be. The other side of the populace, the minority, wasn't willing
to accept just being accepted, they wanted to be proven their idealism was
"right". It was important to them to have the blessing of everyone, not
mere acknowledgement. They became political. They worked to take their
morality into the offices of government, they took their convoluted thinking
into the courts via sympathetic judges, they determined the Constitution was
a "living" document that needed to change to keep abreast of the changing
norms of society. They opened their arms to anyone who didn't agree with
the "normal" morality of America and grew in number. They became a
political force while the rest of America quietly went about their
business. Now things are coming back around to bite us for our political
inactivity. We accepted a judges determination that saying a prayer in
class was unconstitutional. Show me where that is stated in the
Constitution. We accepted a judges determination that marriage is not
solely between a man or a women. Where does it say that in
the Constitution. We accepted a judges determination that no "religious"
symbolism can be displayed on government property. Again, nowhere to be
found in the Constitution. Unfortunately, this is not simply a case of
something squeaking by unnoticed. It has been rampant for a long time.
Maybe we relied on "our" government too much in confronting this problem but
in the end "our" government ultimately let us down. Maybe it's the ego of
power that brought about the succumbing of the once moral leadership we had
to today's, "let's just do what we have to do to keep being re-elected"
mentality. Now it is up to the people who stand alone, leaderless, to make
things different. Each and everyone of us has to raise our voice in
rebellious harmony to bring
Washington back to where it needs to be. We have a great weapon
today in the internet. There is no single political figure who cannot be
reached via the internet. Your feelings and ideas can be communicated and
when enough of us decide to take the time and make the effort to have our
individual thoughts heard, change will occur. So, let's not get "mad" at
something that our government has allowed to happen, do something about it.
Write your Senators and Representatives EVERY DAY and let them know how you
feel. It doesn't take anymore time than it does to read this email.
Ray
"Frenchie" Quesnel

"I
favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I
wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who
bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means
that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently
save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is
idealism in its most practical form.” —Calvin
Coolidge

America The Home Of The Brave
I am a 74-year-old proud American Veteran that lives in the
land of the Free America and the home of the brave The Lawton/Fort Sill
Veterans home in Lawton,
Comanche County, Oklahoma. I can remember back in the year of 1941 I
was an 8-year-old boy living with my parents and my three brothers in
Clovis, New Mexico when
I saw my very first soldier. This was during World War 11. There was an
Army Base at Clovis, NM and they practiced their marching drill daily
on the public street in front of where we lived. My brother Buddy Odle
(Orville Lester), my cousin Lloyd, Bobby &
Shirley Mitchell and a
neighbor boy Donald McDonald would stand on the corner mesmerized watching
the American soldiers
march by. We were not old enough to know anything about the war. We just
knew we liked watching those soldiers. Little did I know then that these
soldiers and others in uniform would make it possible for me and every one
living in the United States of
America to know a life time of Freedom. Making it possible for me and
others to live the American dream. We cannot thank these soldiers enough for
our way of life. I am honored to live in a country with the bravest warrior
in the world.
This is the year 2008 and our brave warriors of today are
fighting in Iraq and
Afghanistan giving us
hope that one day our descendants can live in Freedom with peace on earth
and good will towards all countries on earth. I believe that America will
always be a place called hope. We must keep the faith with those who serve.
What can we as Americans do to show the world that we support
our troops? We can wear Red
Shirts
on Friday until our troops return home safely to their loved ones.
The Red stands for the blood they shed on the battlefields for yours and my
freedom. Our freedom is not free. Some one pays for that freedom as over
6,000
American Heroes have in this war. Just as my home town hero
United States Marine Corp
Corporal Jeffry Rogers of
Yukon, Oklahoma and
Apache, Oklahoma Hero
United States Marine Corp
Corporal Josh Ware both men were good friends and died in the same battle
Nov.16, 2005 in New Ubaydi, Iraq during
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Every Friday is Red Shirt Friday anyone in the world should be able
to look up and see a sea of red.
Our Soldiers and our Veterans should receive the
best health care and
health care facilities
in the world. As should our soldiers families and our veterans families.
When the war is over these soldiers are going to need a good education and
some good paying jobs.
We should close our borders to American Companies
manufacturing goods in foreign countries. We need those companies in America
providing jobs for Americans. We need to make it possible for the working
class in America to live the American dream. We need fuel-efficient
transportation now! We need fuel-efficient homes. We need to stop buying
fuel and goods from countries that hate us. We need to stop putting
manufacturing companies in countries that hate us. Stop all foreign aides to
other countries until we pay off our debt to foreign lands like
China. We need a
strong dollar one that is worth more than any foreign countries money. We
also need leaders that can relate to the working class. We need an energy
revolution now!
As Americans we need to know what we stand for and work
towards that goal. We need health care for all Americans. Who can we trust
to keep America Safe? We know that we can trust the
American soldier to protect our freedoms and our way of life! We need
to provide affordable assisted living and health care for our elderly.
I can remember in this country when you could walk down the
streets safely. And it was a normal site to see Gold Stars in Gold Star
mother’s windows. You never had to lock your doors. We did not have anything
worth stealing. Our tean agers had respect for their elders and would do
anything to help them. And our elders respected and loved the children and
enjoyed helping them in anyway.
The failed policies of the past eight years have lead to over
6000 deaths over seas on the battlefields, the loss of thousands of good
jobs in America due to American Companies going over seas to cheap labor.
Out of work Americans are losing their homes because they lost their jobs
when their Company went across the pond. Washington D.C. politicians that
are in the oil business and own lots of stock in Oil Companies have made a
killing off high gasoline
prices and made it impossible for the working class to drive to work.
Elderly Americans have to make the choice of putting gasoline in the car, or
being able to buy
prescription drugs or groceries.
Our Government is forced to borrow money from China and other
countries to pay for the Iraqi War. We need a change in leadership. We need
leaders that know how to manage money, create jobs and broker peace in this
old world. Someone who truly cares about America and the
American people. Someone who is proud to be an American. Some one
with the American troops welfare and the working mans welfare on their minds
at all times. We need a Big Change! Go to bed praying that you will make the
right choice in November for
America and Americans. And please remember to wear your red shirt
every Friday. Let the world know that you support the American Troops!
God Bless America! God
Bless The American Troops! And God Bless the working man and the elderly!
By Paul L. Odle, Sr.
Popular Yukon Author, Humorous, and Special Veteran Correspondent
Literary Historian and Ardent Promoter of Yukon, Oklahoma and
Veterans Centers
2008 Yukon Wall Of Fame Recipient
Proud To Be An American Veteran
Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center
P.O. Box 849

The American Sacrifice
World War 11 began Sept.3, 1939 when Adolph Hitler's Nazis Germany invaded
Poland. We Americans did not get involved until Dec. 7, 1941 when the Imperial
Japanese fighter planes bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Every able bodied man from
age 18 to 45 was drafted or enlisted in the American military. Our American
women were ask to work out side the home for the first time to work at the jobs
that our men had to leave so they could once again defend our homeland and our
freedom. Americans were still trying to recover from the Great Depression so we
were use to not having much.
Everything of any account went to the war effort. We stopped manufacturing
automobiles and farm machinery and started building ships, airplanes, tanks and
military weapons of all kinds. And for the first time since 1929 Americans had
steady jobs that paid around $35 a week. And Americans were asked to buy war
bonds and we did. Children were asked to bring a dime to school to help fight
another enemy, Polio and they did and we eventually won the war against Polio.
Americans all pulled together to do what was necessary to win World War II.
Every American had to register for books of food stamps, gasoline stamps and
shoe stamps. If you did not have any sugar stamps left you could not purchase
any more sugar that month.
All of the beef, pork, bacon, bananas, butter, and candy bars went to the
military. Americans back home learned to eat lamb if they had a meat stamp they
could purchase it. We ate a lot of chicken. Once a week while they lasted if you
had a meat stamp and you stood in a long line you could get a beef roast for
Sundays dinner. In the 1930's and 1940's the standard American Sunday dinner was
roast beef baked with carrots and onions served with mash potatoes made with
real butter served with roast beef gravy over the mash potatoes.
School Children were ask to collect newspapers and bring to school for paper
drives. The Children were asked to collect aluminum cans and aluminum pots and
pans to be melted down to make weapons with. We collected glass bottles,
aluminum foil was rolled into balls, and we collected string. We did what ever
our government asks us to do. All Americans were patriotic. All Americans loved
President Roosevelt who was a Polio survivor himself. He was crippled from
Polio. Americans pulled together to win this World War II. And we did win
World War II on Sept. 2,1945. Every American hated the Germans, Japanese and
Italians. The newsreels at the picture show would show pictures of Japanese
soldiers throwing babies up in the air and catching them on their bayonet
blades.
The Japanese during World War II were afraid of the US Marine because they had
been told that in order to join the US Marine Corps you had to kill your mother
first to prove you were tough. The Japs held their mothers in high regard and
were terrified of our Marines.
America has been in a war for almost eight years. We have not had to make any
sacrifices at home, no draft, no food stamps, no rationing of any kind. We can
purchase new cars, buy shoes made from real leather without a shoe stamp. We can
go to any grocery store and purchase all the beef, pork, bacon, and bananas,
candy bars that we can afford. Most Americans are not affected by this war!
We have an all-volunteer Military. The families who have men and women in the
military are the only ones making sacrifices in this war. The rest of the people
go about their business like they didn't have a concern in the world. Those
people owe that attitude to the ones that serve our country and paid for their
freedom to feel as they wish.
Americans need to unite and show their support of our men and women in uniform
of our country. One simple thing they could do is wear a red shirt every Friday
to show the world that we Americans stand by our Military people. The Red stands
for the blood that they shed to pay for our freedom. Over 6,000 of America's
finest heroes have paid for our debt for Freedom in Iraq. We should never forget
what these brave men and women like my Heroes US Marine Cpl. Jeffry Rogers of
Yukon, Ok., US Marine Cpl. Joshua Ware of Apache, Oklahoma, and LCpl Lamont
Wilson of Lawton, Oklahoma. I can never thank them enough for my freedom
that I enjoy each and every day. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
By Paul L. Odle, Sr.
Popular Yukon Author, Humorous, and Special Veteran Correspondent
Literary Historian and Ardent Promoter of Yukon, Oklahoma and Veterans Centers
2008 Yukon Wall Of Fame Recipient
Proud To Be An American Veteran
Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center
P.O. Box 849
Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-800-354-3287 Paul_Odlesr@Yahoo.com

Republican or Democrat?
Who Cares?
Stop blaming the problems of the Nation on a party. The problems are with
the people of the system. Regardless of who we send to Washington, they quickly
become personal lap dogs of the special interests. We have to protect ourselves
by watching over those who we have sent to do our work. It seems as soon as our
elected official arrive in Washington, they forget why they where sent there.
Legislation is being passed without even being read. Agendas are being
followed even though it is exactly against what they said they would fight for.
Good Bills are being weighed down with so much special interest fat they are so
expensive that defeat the entire reason for their composure to begin with.
Bureaucrats are making deals with foreign Nationals without our knowledge
and/or consent. The thought of selling our highways is unimaginable. The every
earth that our fathers and mothers and some of us have fought and died for being
sold to those who could not kill us for. It makes me furious. Those who do this
or even attempt to are committing High Treason. These people know that they are
hidden behind a curtain of anonymity. No one is watching the store. The deals
are made and only caught at times by accident. How many are missed or just
covered up and haven’t been found yet. The Bureaucratic system needs to have a
watch dog in place just make sure they know that they serve the people of the
United States and not the insulated Bureau Chief.

Guys, I guess this is our "Day of Infamy". I don't know if it's a
day to be grateful for or a day of shame. I'm not ashamed of anything I did in
those terrible times but I am ashamed of our leadership then and
pretty much since (other than Ronald Reagan's years). The whole situation left
us and our generation so scarred yet it seems no lesson was learned from it as
we see where we are today in Iraq. Our
leadership is anything but decisive in our approach to this war. They are
tearing apart the country rather than uniting and forging a commitment to bring
peace and accord into the world. I'm being
partisan here as both parties are equally at fault. While the Democrats rale
against Bush simply for he being he, the Republicans are shaming themselves with
malfeasance and greed in office. Politics has
become synonymous with corruption, immorality and egotism beyond the pale.
Politics has overwhelmed leadership. Fred Thompson dropped from the presidential
race not because of a lack of effort or money or belief, but because of the
circus that our presidential campaigns have turned into. YouTube and Face book
played major roles in our presidential debates. They made a mockery of the
seriousness of the process. The media refuses to cover the campaigns without
bias and full truths. The foundation of campaigning was changed to Super Tuesday
and early caucuses and hyped like an upcoming reality show.
Campaign finance bills passed the House and Senate to make sure these
politicians didn't "break the law". MaCain-Feingold, what a laugh. It completely
ignores the First Amendment and doesn't do anything to prevent special interest
groups from making illegal contributions but won't allow Mr. & Mrs. America to
express an opinion publicly 30 to 60 days prior to an election. A joke
perpetrated against America by our "leaders". When's the last time you heard any
mention of the borders? We had a law passed to build a wall, what happened
there? Another promise from our politicians to gain the favor of some and no
action to curry favor from the rest. They play us like fools and we just keep
voting them in. Anyway, other than that, Happy Retreat From Vietnam Day!
Frenchie
(This has been an unpaid political announcement that will go nowhere just like
all the rest of them.)

Soon To Be Gone - From A Military Doctor
I am a doctor specializing in the Emergency Departments of the only two military
Level One-Trauma Centers, both in San Antonio, TX and they care for civilian
Emergencies as well as military personnel. San Antonio has the largest military
retiree population in the world living here. As a military doctor, I work long
hours and the pay is less than glamorous. One tends to become jaded by the long
hours, lack of sleep, food, family contact and the endless parade of human
suffering passing before you. The arrival of another ambulance does not mean
more pay, only more work. Most often, it is a victim from a motor vehicle crash.
There was a frail, elderly woman who reassured my young enlisted medic, trying
to start an IV line in her arm. She remained calm and poised, despite her
illness and the multiple needle-sticks into her fragile veins. She was what we
call a "hard stick." As the medic made another attempt, I noticed a number
tattooed across her forearm. I touched it with one finger and looked into her
eyes. She simply said, "Auschwitz." Many of later generations would have loudly
and openly berated the young medic in his many attempts. How different was the
response from this person who'd seen unspeakable suffering.
Also, there was this long retired Colonel, who as a young officer had
parachuted from his burning plane over a Pacific Island held by the Japanese.
Now an octogenarian, he had a minor cut on his head from a fall at his home
where he lived alone. His CT scan and suturing had been delayed until after
midnight by the usual parade of high priority ambulance patients. Still spry for
his age, he asked to use the phone to call a taxi, to take him home, then he
realized his ambulance had brought him without his wallet. He asked if he could
use the phone to make a long distance call to his daughter who lived 7 miles
away. With great pride we told him that he could not, as he'd done enough for
his country and the least we could do was get him a taxi home, even if we had to
pay for it ourselves. My only regret was that my shift wouldn't end for several
hours, and I couldn't drive him myself.
I was there the night MSgt. Roy Benavidez came through the Emergency Dept. for
the last time. He was very sick. I was not the doctor taking care of him, but I
walked to his bedside and took his hand. I said nothing. He was so sick, he
didn't know I was there. I'd read his Congressional Medal of Honor citation and
wanted to shake his hand. He died a few days later.
The gentleman who served with Merrill's Marauders, the survivor of the Bataan
Death March, the survivor of Omaha Beach, the 101 year old World War I veteran,
the former POW held in frozen North Korea, the former Special Forces medic - now
with non-operable liver cancer, the former Viet Nam Corps Commander.
I remember these citizens.
I may still groan when yet another ambulance comes in, but now I am much more
aware of what an honor it is to serve these particular men and women.
I have seen a Congress who would turn their back on these individuals who've
sacrificed so much to protect our liberty. I see later generations that seem to
be totally engrossed in abusing these same liberties, won with such sacrifice.
It has become my personal endeavor to make the nurses and young enlisted medics
aware of these amazing individuals when I encounter them in our Emergency Dept.
Their response to these particular citizens has made me think that perhaps all
is not lost in the next generation.
My experiences have solidified my belief that we are losing an incredible
generation, and this nation knows not what it is losing. Our uncaring government
and ungrateful civilian populace should all take note.
We should all remember that we must "Earn this."
Written By CPT. Stephen R. Ellison, M.D. US Army !

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian
Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on 5-22-07.
It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of
Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.
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REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:30:20 -0500
ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez(*)
I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth
- Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them
with 20 million Muslims.
In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We
destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and
wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art,
international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These
are the people we burned.
And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves
that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million
Muslims, who brought us stupidity and
ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due
to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride. They
have blown up our trains and turned our
beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the
murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred,
creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and
superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the
Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their
children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who
pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for
death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe .

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