Freedom of Speech

Well, it's been a long week trying to write my first real post of this new election season.  No, I haven't been suffering from writers block...just the opposite...I have too many things I want to say and I have been trying to prioritize my thoughts and limit them to a digestible size and keep my posts concise and not ramble on about too many different subjects in each post.

First, I want to give some fresh background about what I want to cover and how.  I proudly served this great nation in the U.S. Navy for 23+ years.  During that period, I took The United States Navy Oath of Enlistment a total of 7 times.  In that Oath, I swore "...to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC..."  I still cherish our Constitution (I carry a copy with me at all times) and I still feel compelled to continue to Live The Oath Every Day.  Keeping that in mind, I feel that President Obama has trampled on the Constitution and does therefore fit the definition of a DOMESTIC ENEMY.  I therefore feel compelled to continue to protect and defend the Constitution by doing everything legally within my power to help enable the defeat of the President's bid for a second term.

Over the next several months, I will try to outline exactly what I feel the President has done (or not done) and why I feel he is NOT living up to the Constitutional duties of his office.  This week, a Marine Sergeant with 10 (?) years of service was kicked out of the Corps (or as the President once stated, "The Corpse") because of a posting he made on Facebook about refusing to follow the orders of the President.  Although I understand and sympathize with his position, the outcome  from his actions were CORRECT.  He forgot that as an active duty member of the military, he does NOT enjoy the Constitutional First Amendment protection of Freedom of Speech.

We all know that Freedom of Speech does have some legal limitations, such as the problem this Marine Sergeant faced as well as perjury, libel and slander, falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater, etc.  Unfortunately, the liberals (or progressives, or socialists) believe that they have a right to shut you up for perfectly legal, truthful speech that they just disagree with. Call it by the common term in use now...political correctness.  They feel that if you say something that they disagree with, something they find OFFENSIVE, they have the right to shut you up.  UNFORTUNATELY, they should be on the losing side of that battle since the Constitution clearly addresses Freedom of Speech, Freedom from Being Offended...NOT SO MUCH !! 

Well, I have been away from blogging for awhile.  With everything going on in this year's campaigns, I just can't stay quiet any longer and I suspect at least some of my Facebook "Friends" don't appreciate a lot of my comments. I will invite all of them to my blog and if they are interested, they can read what I have to say and if they aren't interested, Screw 'em...it's their loss.  Stay tuned, I'll be starting soon.

Fred Wins SC Debate

I watched the entire South Carolina Republican Debate last night and the assembled focus group almost unanimously picked Fred as the debate winner. Fred said to wait for South Carolina, and he was "Right Said Fred". Fred came out swinging and virtually controlled the tempo and direction of the debate. Fred put "Huck" on the spot several times and left him stuttering.

Now I have a question, two actually: WHO THE HELL IS THIS RON PAUL CHARACTER AND WHAT DID HE SAY ??????? OK, I know who he is, but what did he say? I do want to know who left the door unlocked so he got in? Ron Paul is a crack pot who must have been high on uppers. He spoke so fast that even if he was making any sense, (and he wasn't) you still wouldn't be able to understand him.

Whoever wants him to seriously be the President, needs to picture him in front of congress giving the State of the Union address. What about meeting foreign dignitaries. Is this really what you want representing the United States to the world. I have visions of this guy sitting at a State Dinner with his napkin tucked into his collar. Ron Paul needs to go home.

My little buddy, Dennis "The Menace" Kucinich is showing his TRUE DEMOCRAT COLORS. He actually demanded a full recount of the New Hampshire Democrat Primary votes. Straight out of the Al Gore and John Kerry playbook. Except, that "The Menace" wasn't close to a tie for winning. He wasn't even close to a tie for losing. He came in dead last, not even close. So what was he doing? Supposedly, the vote results weren't close to the polling results so Dennis wanted to investigate why. Let's just send Dennis home.

Finally, "The Quote of the Day". Mary Matalin, the Republican Strategist, was discussing Hillary's search for a new campaign slogan right after a discussion about Hilary's Alligator Tear. Mary suggested Hillary adopt "FOUR MORE TEARS" since the one "Tear" seemed to work in New Hampshire.

Blinded By the Light "of the TV News Cameras"

The Hillary "Tear" is still in the news. The latest news is that the woman, 64 year old lifelong Democrat and former Carter campaign worker, Marianne Pernaud, who asked Hillary "The Question" that elicited "The Tear" wasn't moved enough, standing directly in front of Hillary, to actually vote for Hillary. Marianne, it seems, was more moved to her own tears by a speech by "Jim" Obama earlier in the day.

WOW !!!!!! Now to be fair, Marianne said she thought the tear was "Real" but, because Hillary paused for about 10 seconds after the tear, and then immediately began a negative tirade against "Jim" Obama, Marianne was turned off by the incident and cast her vote for "Jim". Marianne was turned off by Hillary being Hillary. If only it was really that easy to just send Hillary home.

Here's to the "Mainstream Media" (including Fox News in this particular case) for controlling the story to show only Hillary's Alligator Tear OUT OF CONTEXT with the entire incident. If you get your news through carefully controlled sound bites, you aren't getting the full story. You are getting a spin on the story making it tell what the newsroom wants it to tell.

I was a Collateral Duty Public Affairs Officer in the Navy, and one of my tasks was to ensure that the local media reporting stories on my base and the personnel attached there were telling facts and NOT spinning the stories to their end. We actually banned one reporter from the base while I was there. His station was still allowed to report from the base but NOT by that particular reporter because he played "Loose" with the facts. After dealing with them for 3 years, I know how the "Mainstream Media" works.

The same thing happened in Los Angeles with the "Rodney King Beating by Police" scandal. The initial video, broadcast live during the incident showed the entire incident including the chase through the streets of LA with an "insane individual" behind the wheel rapidly changing lanes while traveling at very high speeds (close to 100 miles per hour if I remember the incident correctly), followed by the police pulling him from the car and Rodney FIGHTING BACK with the police and refusing to stay down while he was being handcuffed.

After seeing that video, honestly, Rodney King wasn't beaten severely enough based on his actions that night and the police officers really showed great restraint and really only tried to subdue a crazed individual in a probable drug induced stupor, who refused to be handcuffed, however, based on the sound bites and short clips that were shown on the "NEWS" during the trial, the News Media MADE THE POLICE OFFICERS LOOK GUILTY, simply by the spin on the stories and film bites that they chose to broadcast.

THE MORAL TO THE STORY: Be careful about the choices you make based on 10 second sound bites and video clips. You may be getting suckered into doing what someone who is not completely honest wants you to do, not necessarily what would normally be your actual choice!!!!

And MOST IMPORTANTLY: If you are still voting Democrat, you are stuck on STUPID !

Who Moved the Cheese ?

A few years ago, when I was slaving in the "corporate" world, I was given a book by my boss and told that the company wanted everybody to read it. The title of the book was "Who Moved My Cheese" and the basic tenet was that corporations that don't change with the times end up running around like chickens (or in the case of this book, mice) with their heads cut off (which is something I have witnessed for real). The book was an OK read with a "GOOD CORPORATE MORAL TO THE STORY" but now, I think of something else when I think of the title of that book.

I think of the election season we are all watching. I would like to postulate some changes in the story to fit in with the politics. First, we are not watching cute little mice scurrying about looking for cheese in a maze. This is more like watching a bunch of rats chasing after a really huge chunk of "Golden Cheese", the U.S. Treasury filled with our tax dollars.

The story started in Iowa, with the rats poking their noses into every little nook and cranny in Iowa trying to track down the fattest nest of taxpayers they could find and then began kissing their butts and making all kinds of promises for a piece of the "Golden Cheese". That story ended with Huck and Jim cruising down the Mississippi on a raft with their respective little pieces of "GC" hidden in the tent.

Last night, Mrs Bubba, after crying a Mississippi River of fake alligator tears (YES, I know that the phrase "Alligator Tears" is an analogy for fake tears but Hillary is such a fake that her fake tears were fake), picked up her piece of GC, and loaded up the truck and headed for the bright lights of Vegas. The RINO was hot on her tail (what a visual that makes) ... UGGHHHHH ! Most of the remaining rats are following last nights winners to Vegas to gamble who will get the GC waiting there. Some of the others are skipping Vegas (maybe they don't like to gamble) and getting a headstart (good name for a welfare program) in South Carolina and Floriduh.

Another one bites the dust. Bill Richardson is taking his toys and going home to New Mexico where I guess his friends must play nicer than the POTUS wannabes.