Monthly Archives: August 2016

The home of the brave

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Kaepernick won’t stand during the national anthem.  Gutsy move for someone who depends on fellow American’s to support his lifestyle.  Endorsements, ticket sales, employment after professional football; these and more considerations must have gone through his mind when he decided to take a stand.  Gutsy move.

While others mindlessly stand and place their hands over their hearts, this guy took a stand by not standing.  This is a true American.  He does what he thinks is right no matter what others think.  I disagree with him, but I admire his courage.

I see others place their hands over their hearts as a sign of their belief in our country and it makes me sick.  These people (and you can guess who they might be) demonstrate acts of patriotism, but they do not love our country.  It amazes me that these people can look themselves in the mirror or sleep at night.  They do not share the central belief system of those they govern.

Someday, someday soon, these people will be cast off and relegated to the trash heap of civilization.  They will not have to pretend to be Americans much longer.  We will see who they really are.

I hope Karpernick will eventually stand for the national anthem.  I hope he will regain pride in all things American.  Until then, he should sit out the anthem.  Only those who believe in America should join those of us who renew our pledge to America every time we we stand, face the flag, and let America’s anthem wash over us.

 

Wolfowitz is a putz

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This guy is the worst.  I got to Baghdad just over a year after the attack on the Rashid Hotel; an attack that cost the life of Lt Col Charles Behring and injured over a dozen of fellow Americans.  You could still see where the rockets hit the side of the building.

Wolfowitz, like other members of the Bush administration, was an amateur and caused untold suffering on both sides of the conflict.  Can you imagine the humiliation the Iraqi people felt when “their White House” was occupied for years by U.S. led soldiers and trailers by the thousands were erected on the grounds behind it?  Saddam’s palace was the people’s palace and we treated it with contempt.

We lost thousands of Americans because of Wolfowitz, the American Ambassador John Bremer, and the other political appointees who created flawed policies.  We lost patriots who simply raised their right hands a vowed to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.  We spent our national treasure without a clear goal.

Americans can be proud of their warriors, but not its leaders.  It is ironic that Obama makes Bush look like a competent leader.  Obama is the worst of the worst.  Bush is second to the worst, but at least he erred on the side of America.  Obama errors on the side of America’s enemies.

CNN discussion of the attack on Wolfowitz’ hotel

Wolfowitz decides Hillary is the better of two evils

 

Donna Brazile’s recounting of the Democrat Party’s treatment of blacks is deluded

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USA Today posted an opinion written by Donna Brazile.

Here is a link to the 24 August 2016 story: Donna Brazile: Trump’s pitch to blacks is deluded

Donna’s statements are in blue.  Reality check statements are in red.

Forsake a party that has welcomed us, given us voice and advanced our interests?

The Democrat Party only welcomed blacks after the party stopped lynching blacks, stopped preventing blacks from voting, and stopped supporting segregation.  Many members of Congress were black soon after the Civil War and all of them were Republicans.  When those representatives were driven from office by the Democrat Party, blacks lost their voices and their interests could no longer be advanced by blacks.

For over 40 years, the Democratic Party has been my home. And it has been home to the vast majority of black voters in increasing numbers since the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and going back even further to the New Deal and earlier.

Black voters increased in numbers after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed over the objections of many Democrats; one in three Democrats voted no.  Democratic senators Byrd, Gore, Russell, and Thurmond filibustered against the act.  Richard Russell led the filibuster saying, “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states.”  And, isn’t it telling that Brazile ran Al Gore Jr’s 2000 presidential campaign?  Brazile is well aware that democrats kept her parents and grandparents from voting and she still chose to support the Democrat Party.

The Republican Party would have been the natural home of black voters, but it was the GOP that turned away from us.

Really?  Which party put sheets over their heads and slaughtered blacks by the thousands?  GOP?  No.  The Democrat Party looked the other way while its members terrorized blacks.

And at the height of the civil rights struggle, President Lyndon Johnson made a conscious decision to fully commit the Democratic Party to the cause of equality for African Americans, even though he knew that would cost the Democrats the South — and many elections — for at least a generation.

Brazile got this one right.  President Kennedy and his brother Bobby were not civil rights champions until just before Kennedy was elected president.  It was Bobby who authorized wire taps on Martin Luther King Jr.’s phone and allowed the FBI director to continue to harass civil rights leaders.  Would you believe that Bobby Kennedy was an intern for Joseph McCarthy as McCarthy ruined the careers of many Americans?  Johnson used President Kennedy’s death to push the civil rights agenda through Congress and signed the act just 7 months after Kennedy was assassinated. 

Does anyone even know that Martin Luther King Sr. was a Republican?  Brazile knows.  She knows that if the truth about the Democrat Party is told, she will lose the source of her power and influence.  Brazile knowingly tows the part line.  Her actions are analogous to slave overseers who tortured and punished fellow slaves at the behest of slave owners.

It is time for all voters to educate themselves.  Voters need to decide whether Democrats are different from Republicans and what actions need to be taken when that decision has been made.  This activist has made his choice.  I wish Bruce Carter success as he pushes against the party of slavery.

Today is the 1,936th anniversary of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79

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Vesuvius, August 2016

Smoking Vesuvius. Actually it is smoke from a huge fire on the far side.


When I go to work I make sure I park at the top of the parking garage facing Vesuvius.  I can see the Bay of Naples, Capri, Sorrento, and Mt. Vesuvius.  Once in a while a wisp of steam can be seen coming from the top, but usually a person has to look in the crater to see the steam.  A tree grows in the bottom of the crater.  It has been 72 years since it erupted.

One of these days I’ll make a page with pictures of Vesuvius, and pictures taken from Vesuvius.  But, today I’m just posting this link.  There are some interesting facts and videos about its eruption.  One of the videos is from World War II and it shows the eruption and up close footage as the lava takes down building after building.  Lava fields from that up close footage can be seen from where I park.

It is a beautiful mountain and I can see why humans have been drawn to it for thousands of years.  I think another hike is in order before the end of the year.

http://vaviper.blogspot.it/2015/08/august-24-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius.html

Stand by your man, as long as he puts money in your pocket

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Bill Hillary and TammyMost of us first heard of the Clintons when they began their race to the White House.  In 1992 they gave their first interview to 60 Minutes and she let everyone see a little of the darkness inside her heart.  When Hillary said, “I’m not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” she let us know she was different.  Hillary didn’t just sit next to “her man,” Hillary began destroying women who had anything to do with “her man.”

Hillary’s path of destruction widened when her power and influence increased over the years.  She left a trail of destroyed lives, some literally dead, and some who wondered how their lives could have veered so far from normal.  It turns out Hillary doesn’t just have an enthusiasm for destroying women who turn Bill’s eye, Hillary has a quest for money and power that has no limit.

When she lost to Obama, she was given the keys to the State Department and she became its queen.  Rules did not apply to her.  America’s policy were not her policies unless there was something in it for her.  There were hints all along, but the news is beginning to flood over all of us, and the news is not just from the “Great Right Wing Conspiracy” news organizations Hillary feared back in the 90’s.  All the news organizations have begun spilling the beans.

Hillary has always been corrupt.  She has always been ruthless.  She has always been shielded by news organizations.  Hillary will never change her stripes, but those who shielded Hillary seem to have lost their will to do so.

Nobody would accuse the AP of leaning toward the right.  Here is an article three years in the making:  Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State