With all our nation's trillion's wasted on senseless government spending I ask when is the government ever going to start asking what are they funding and is funding that funding effective in solving the intended issues?
Tom Ridge announced today that twelve years after 9/11, and in light of the recent tragic events in Boston, that our government and law enforcement have no clue where tens of thousands of foreigners are herein the United States under the pretense of student visas and visas. In addition, Ridge and Congressional members want to know why FBI and DHS ignored documents presented to FBI agents in our embassy in Russia about the Tsarnaev family including both brothers as well as the mother!
Does this sound familar, did we not learn our lesson from the ignored intel that remained uninvestigated prior to 9/11!!! Truly uncomforting and most concerning!
Monday, May 6, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
24 YRS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL ARE WE SAFER?
With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the "Evil Empire's demise" I can not help but wonder if the world is truly a safer? Our late President Ronald Reagan so committed to the demise of the former Soviet Union perhaps may have miss read who truly are enemies were and are. We built our armed forces to show we were willing to go to toe to toe with the Russians opposing their ideology but again I wonder were they ever a threat. The more I learn about the former Soviet Union the more I have learned that they like any other country had suffered horrible losses during WWII and wanted to insulate themselves from ever having to be invaded again and suffer such horrendous losses.
Before the fall of the Soviet Union only six nations had nuclear weapons, U.S., USSR, China, U.K. France and Israel. The Soviets knew of the insatiability in the world and kept order by refusing further nuclear proliferation. With the fall of the USSR we now have to worry about radical countries such as North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, India, and half a dozen other rogue nations daily trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
I love this country and I do not think any one on the planet can challenge me on that fact, but as an educated American I have the right to question our leaders and policies if I do not agree with them and do so in a peaceful unchallenged method, i.e. speak freely without worry about being arrested or detained. As an American I find myself questioning our foreign and domestic policies more and more. I wonder what right if any do we have to tell any country that the way they treat their citizens is wrong and that they need to change or we will change their ways for them? Is that sane? Do we not have enough problems here at home that are unresolved that need immediate attention before fixing the world of their problems?
I believe that any sovereign nation has the right to peacefully co-exist on this planet with the rest of the world's inhabitants as long as they are not invading or imposing their will on others. I believe that what happens within your borders is a matter of that nation's citizens and not that of the world and certainly not the United States. I believe that we should help our allies protect themselves when necessary but I do not believe that our nation should sacrifice our youth for the promotion of our beliefs to be forced upon others.
In the end we have repeatedly been kicked in the groin by nations calling us their friends while our perceived enemies have never invaded our country or committed an act of terrorism on our soil! I remind everyone that 9/11 was not the Russians but Saudis, Afghans, the recent bombing of the Boston Marathon Chechen Muslim extremist all people who the Soviets had problems with that we defended only to be kicked in the groin by the very people we helped, is that good foreign policy?
Too many of our brave young men and women have given so much to help these people on to be repaid as a nation with violence on our soil against the very citizens who helped these people!
The time has come to focus on rebuilding our country, its infrastructure and restoring its once mega manufacturing capabilities, while providing jobs to so many out of work. We need to return our troops from foreign soils who will never or understand our beliefs so long as their religion dictates their laws and culture! We as a nation need to round up the scourge that has infiltrated our nation and send them home every last one regardless of color, creed, religion, race if they have no intention to become citizens and live through assimilation in accordance with local, state and federal laws! Until these issues are addressed we will continue to bankrupt us as a nation while our citizens are killed by those who have moved here with the intentions of committing evil. The time is now to wake up and rebuild our nation to be the shining beacon we once were believed to be and not the laughing stock of the world soon to be bankrupt and over run from outsiders!
Before the fall of the Soviet Union only six nations had nuclear weapons, U.S., USSR, China, U.K. France and Israel. The Soviets knew of the insatiability in the world and kept order by refusing further nuclear proliferation. With the fall of the USSR we now have to worry about radical countries such as North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, India, and half a dozen other rogue nations daily trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
I love this country and I do not think any one on the planet can challenge me on that fact, but as an educated American I have the right to question our leaders and policies if I do not agree with them and do so in a peaceful unchallenged method, i.e. speak freely without worry about being arrested or detained. As an American I find myself questioning our foreign and domestic policies more and more. I wonder what right if any do we have to tell any country that the way they treat their citizens is wrong and that they need to change or we will change their ways for them? Is that sane? Do we not have enough problems here at home that are unresolved that need immediate attention before fixing the world of their problems?
I believe that any sovereign nation has the right to peacefully co-exist on this planet with the rest of the world's inhabitants as long as they are not invading or imposing their will on others. I believe that what happens within your borders is a matter of that nation's citizens and not that of the world and certainly not the United States. I believe that we should help our allies protect themselves when necessary but I do not believe that our nation should sacrifice our youth for the promotion of our beliefs to be forced upon others.
In the end we have repeatedly been kicked in the groin by nations calling us their friends while our perceived enemies have never invaded our country or committed an act of terrorism on our soil! I remind everyone that 9/11 was not the Russians but Saudis, Afghans, the recent bombing of the Boston Marathon Chechen Muslim extremist all people who the Soviets had problems with that we defended only to be kicked in the groin by the very people we helped, is that good foreign policy?
Too many of our brave young men and women have given so much to help these people on to be repaid as a nation with violence on our soil against the very citizens who helped these people!
The time has come to focus on rebuilding our country, its infrastructure and restoring its once mega manufacturing capabilities, while providing jobs to so many out of work. We need to return our troops from foreign soils who will never or understand our beliefs so long as their religion dictates their laws and culture! We as a nation need to round up the scourge that has infiltrated our nation and send them home every last one regardless of color, creed, religion, race if they have no intention to become citizens and live through assimilation in accordance with local, state and federal laws! Until these issues are addressed we will continue to bankrupt us as a nation while our citizens are killed by those who have moved here with the intentions of committing evil. The time is now to wake up and rebuild our nation to be the shining beacon we once were believed to be and not the laughing stock of the world soon to be bankrupt and over run from outsiders!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGS
It is more than two weeks since we as a nation sat in horror witnessing the latest attack on our beloved country. I cannot help but wonder how a nation conceived in liberty, its constitution allowing for freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly is being destroyed by terrorist who under the pretense of seeking "asylum" use these constitutional freedoms to enter this country!
As our political relations strengthen with our former "enemy" Russia we should accept their sharing of intelligence and warnings about people that they have welcomed to leave! We as a nation can no longer demand that the world treat its citizens the way we do and must accept their laws of governance for their citizens! Only when their views and politics threaten our citizens and nation's safety should foreign policy change!
With that said the more we learn about the Tsarnaevs the more we need to take a hard look at who we have allowed to visit our shores and what are they up to? Laws need to be passed making colleges and universities report attendance of foreign nationals here on student visas, their failure to attend classes should mean an immediate expulsion and a free trip back to the airport to board a plane back to their homeland. Freedom of speech is for U.S. citizens not foreign nationals!
It is little surprise that the bombers were Muslim extremists. While Christians, Jews, Hindus teach their children how precious life is, to live in harmony with others and to support and defend their country and their right to live and practice in freedom. Muslims teach their children hatred and intolerance of all non believers, they encourage their children martyrdom and that killing non believers is the sure way to get to their warped version of heaven that there is no tolerance for any other religion or other forms of law or justice other than sharia law.
Based on these warnings and the fact that there are so many Arab countries where they could live and practice their religion and law freely one must ask why come here? The reality is that no other country allows for immigrants to come to their country and demand changes to existing laws, customs, regulations, and constitutional freedoms, yet the immigration of Muslims to this country has shown these resident aliens demanding and forcing their extremist religious views upon us! In Fairfax, VA they demand schools serve halal meals to all students, in other parts of the country states, counties, cities etc are demanding that governors, mayors and council members and courts should banish the constitution in favor of sharia Law!
I ask what the hell is wrong with us as a Nation? No where, and I mean no where else in the world would that behavior be tolerated. Our forefathers, and ancestors came to this country to get away from the old laws and ways they were forced to live in their homelands! They agreed to learn English, learn the laws of the U.S. and raise their right hand to be sworn in to be law abiding taxpaying U.S. citizens who agreed to protect our country and defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Again, you do not see Jews demanding that all public schools serve kosher meals, Hindus vegan nor do you see Christians demand everyone worship Christ! So Again I ask why the hell are we letting these people into our country and allowing them to make us conform to their ways?
The time has come that under the laws of the Constitution you either agree to live by our laws and assimilate or pack up and go back home if they'll take you back. If you commit an act of terrorism as a U.S. citizen then you are tried for treason and get the expedited death sentence like Timothy McVeigh if you are a foreign national you are sent to Gitmo where the government will give you all the love and attention you demand while in the safe custody away from society. Immigration should be based on desire to live here in peace and accordance with our laws not the ones you felt so oppressive of that you fled your country from! I say let’s get out the ICE agent and FBI six months of overtime and a few dozen ships waiting in the various ports and we will once again make our street and citizens safe to live as a nation under the constitution of the U.S.
Demand that your Senators and Representatives stop this non-sense about passing gun tougher laws and demand that we pass tougher laws on immigration and foreign policy as it effects our nation's safety not our view of how others should govern their citizens!!!!
Monday, April 1, 2013
THE WORLD IS A MORE DANGEROUS PLACE
How different and safe the world could be I wonder if we had a the ability to go back in time!
Growing up as a product of the sixties I was constantly told of the evils of the USSR and the empire they controlled destined to invade us and force us into a life of communism. We watched in the 80's in horror when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, how Iraq was our allie how President Ronald Reagan had the balls to stand up to all our enemies by showing that America was not a country to be messed with.. with her 600 hundred ship navy prowling the world and our B1Bs and B52s at the standby and missiles loaded in snug in their silos Reagan went toe to toe with Iran, East Germany, Cuba and the evil empire..USSR.
Through Reagan's taking advantage of a robust economy we were able to bankrupt the Soviets and take down the Axis of Evil. Today our economy can sustain our military. Our once mighty fleet of 600 gleeming ships of prey reduced to less than 250 while we fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and now potentially Iran and Iraq. With the Soviets in power we always could count on them never allowing their puppet states to obtain or gain access to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Today ever two bit thug with a check book now can hold us at bay while threatening us with potential release of nuclear weapons.
How safe and better a place perhaps the world would be if we allowed the Soviets to wipe out the Islamic extremists that threaten the world of Infidels and non believers! How safe I wonder would the world be if our idiot elected officials today had the common sense to understand that Reagan was able to succeed in keeping us safe because we had an economy able to fund and supply the brave men and women serving our nation. How safe would the world be if we were a country able to still feed the world and exportation of goods by the ship load we keep people employed to pay the taxes needed to fund our military.
Bottom line how safe would the world be if we could go back in time and keep our nation focused on the common sense approaches Ronald Reagan used to lead what was our nation's potentially second finest hour?
Growing up as a product of the sixties I was constantly told of the evils of the USSR and the empire they controlled destined to invade us and force us into a life of communism. We watched in the 80's in horror when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, how Iraq was our allie how President Ronald Reagan had the balls to stand up to all our enemies by showing that America was not a country to be messed with.. with her 600 hundred ship navy prowling the world and our B1Bs and B52s at the standby and missiles loaded in snug in their silos Reagan went toe to toe with Iran, East Germany, Cuba and the evil empire..USSR.
Through Reagan's taking advantage of a robust economy we were able to bankrupt the Soviets and take down the Axis of Evil. Today our economy can sustain our military. Our once mighty fleet of 600 gleeming ships of prey reduced to less than 250 while we fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and now potentially Iran and Iraq. With the Soviets in power we always could count on them never allowing their puppet states to obtain or gain access to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Today ever two bit thug with a check book now can hold us at bay while threatening us with potential release of nuclear weapons.
How safe and better a place perhaps the world would be if we allowed the Soviets to wipe out the Islamic extremists that threaten the world of Infidels and non believers! How safe I wonder would the world be if our idiot elected officials today had the common sense to understand that Reagan was able to succeed in keeping us safe because we had an economy able to fund and supply the brave men and women serving our nation. How safe would the world be if we were a country able to still feed the world and exportation of goods by the ship load we keep people employed to pay the taxes needed to fund our military.
Bottom line how safe would the world be if we could go back in time and keep our nation focused on the common sense approaches Ronald Reagan used to lead what was our nation's potentially second finest hour?
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
NO MONEY FOR PROGRAMS THEN NO PAY CHECKS FOR LEGISLATORS OR THE PRESIDENT!!
Today, the White House announced that due to sequestration all tours of the White House will be cancelled. Perhaps in the spirit of cost containment and fiscal responsibility we as citizens should restrict the President to staying at the White House instead of spending millions of dollars every time he wants to go to Five Guys in Arlington or take his girls for ice cream in Alexandria, or everytime he has the Air Force warm up one of seven 747s or 777 any time he feels like taking a global vacation?
Should we not withhold all pay checks for both the Senate and House until they sit down and get their acts together to start to put differences aside and fix our Nation's economic crisis in the next week with legitimate resolution and creativeness to overhaul taxes, fix our nation's infrastructure and once and for all put the tens of millions of Americans who want to work back to work with real jobs?
Not for nothing but would we not be better off with a flat tax for all citizens of 7.5% and a 15% for corporations and imposing a national VAT of 1.5%. Would we not be better off having everyone pay something than to have more than half paying nothing while the other half pays for everyone?
I am pretty sure that if you locked these clowns in the building and would not let them out until there was resolution to our budget and economic wows things would get done! So let's flood the switchboards of the House, Senate and White House and demand this situation be resolved by the end of next week or not one of them gets paid!
Should we not withhold all pay checks for both the Senate and House until they sit down and get their acts together to start to put differences aside and fix our Nation's economic crisis in the next week with legitimate resolution and creativeness to overhaul taxes, fix our nation's infrastructure and once and for all put the tens of millions of Americans who want to work back to work with real jobs?
Not for nothing but would we not be better off with a flat tax for all citizens of 7.5% and a 15% for corporations and imposing a national VAT of 1.5%. Would we not be better off having everyone pay something than to have more than half paying nothing while the other half pays for everyone?
I am pretty sure that if you locked these clowns in the building and would not let them out until there was resolution to our budget and economic wows things would get done! So let's flood the switchboards of the House, Senate and White House and demand this situation be resolved by the end of next week or not one of them gets paid!
Saturday, March 2, 2013
SEQUESTRATION...ONE MORE SIGN OF FAILURE!!!
Perhaps we as citizens have failed to make it clear to our elected that they work for US! That they have been entrusted with the responsibilities of conveying our thoughts, concerns and resquests to formulate rules, regulations and laws to better our society.
Yesterday's sequestration is one more sign that the system is broken AND IN NEED OF DESPERATE OVERHAUL!!!! Perhaps instead of the President cutting over $85 billion in spending that is essential for the economy's recovery we draw a hard line once and for all to send a message to all these clowns in Washington...NO APPROVED BUDGET THEN NO ONE ELECTED GETS PAID THIS INCLUDES THE PRESIDENT.
I ask once and for all what is it going to take to get these people to stop acting like idiots and start acting as concerned Americans trying to fix our economy? I am a firm believer that the only way to get these people to take the hint is to hurt them where they live ....in the WALLLET.
Let's see what would happen if you even dared to try and pass legislation that would deny elected officials their salary until a balanced budget was formulated, approved and signed into law! Bottom line is the only people who will suffer as a result of the this sequestration is the American Public and not the elected who will collect their $200K salaries through their bi-weekly pay checks as will their staff and the President his $400K as well. Let's send a message...NO Budget NO Pay! Then let's see how quickly these people will get their act together!
Yesterday's sequestration is one more sign that the system is broken AND IN NEED OF DESPERATE OVERHAUL!!!! Perhaps instead of the President cutting over $85 billion in spending that is essential for the economy's recovery we draw a hard line once and for all to send a message to all these clowns in Washington...NO APPROVED BUDGET THEN NO ONE ELECTED GETS PAID THIS INCLUDES THE PRESIDENT.
I ask once and for all what is it going to take to get these people to stop acting like idiots and start acting as concerned Americans trying to fix our economy? I am a firm believer that the only way to get these people to take the hint is to hurt them where they live ....in the WALLLET.
Let's see what would happen if you even dared to try and pass legislation that would deny elected officials their salary until a balanced budget was formulated, approved and signed into law! Bottom line is the only people who will suffer as a result of the this sequestration is the American Public and not the elected who will collect their $200K salaries through their bi-weekly pay checks as will their staff and the President his $400K as well. Let's send a message...NO Budget NO Pay! Then let's see how quickly these people will get their act together!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT NOT GUN CONTROL
My definition of gun control I believe is completely different than that of our President or most legislatures... I am pretty sure that what I learned from the academy and from my friends was that gun control meant using two hands, taking a deep breathe and letting it out slowly as you gently squeezed the trigger, only after taking an extra two seconds to ensure your aim!!!!
The truth about gun control is that it only keeps guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens! If you are a criminal you have no regard for the law and therefore will always find a way around the law to gain access to firearms!
The problem with knee jerk reactions to such horrible incidents such as Newtown is that they are REACTIVE and NOT ANALYTICAL.. I.E. they fail to understand and address the real problem.
In this country the issue is not gun control but providing access to mental health clinicians to those who are in need of mental health! Yes, I said it. Guns do not kill people..Nut Cases Kill People!
If our nation would take a different view as to eliminating its stigma over mental health then more people would be inclined to more confidently seek access to getting the mental healthcare they need. Lets all face it we all will share the name of a good dentist, internist, general practioner, dermatologist, or gynocologist with friends family or someone new to town. But let's face it would you tell your friends, family you are seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist? Would you make a recommendation to a friend here is the name of a great psychologist I see? The answer shamefully is NO, because of the stigma associated with the need to be seen or treated BY a mental health care clinician.
I for one truly believe that the answer to our issues of violence in our streets and the use of violence using firearms does not get resolved by the passing of half ass legislation that fails to address the root cause of the violence... usually mental health!
I believe that when you examine the facts regarding Newtown, you will learn that the shooter had a long running history of mental illness, that his own mother recognized his illness and rather than get her son the help he so desperately needed instead took her son the range to teach him how to use a firearm! I ask you all where is the sanity of that? Would any of you give a monkey a loaded gun in a room full of people and be surprised that someone ends up getting hurt or killed? NO!!!!!
Call me over educated but like I said my definition of gun control means taking careful aim, breathe control and using two hands when using a firearm. Solving the problem to preventing future incidents like Newtown, Columbine and any where else violence has and will occur is getting people who need help the access they deserve prior to their hurting others and doing so with out putting a stigma on them! I know none of you brave and loyal veterans would ever judge a fellow veteran for being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disease. I respectfully ask why should we as a society make people feel the need to avoid help to the point where they break simply because these people are afraid of how we would view them knowing they were getting help before they break?
I leave you with this thought twenty years ago you would have never have seen a commercial for anti-depressants on television, so why is it we laugh at the commercials or silently judge people who may need these drugs? Is it not better these potential ticking time bombs are defused and are treated before someone gets hurt? Let's focus our efforts not on gun control legislation let's focus on directing our legislatures to understand and address the real problem and pass laws to provide easier access for people to get the help they need!
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