Defend America only. Do not manipulate or police the world.
Take immediate action to prevent President Obama from launching any military action in Syria.
The President is trying to fix something that cannot be solved by outsiders dropping bombs. This will not protect innocent people. It will kill innocents. Their blood will be on the President’s hands, and on your hands, unless you use your powers to resist.
Take Sarah Pallin’s counsel: “Let Allah sort it out.”
Is it tragic? Yes. But to quote some way: “There are many problems in this world, and some of them are mine.”
Be like the Swiss: MYOB! Blessed are the peacemakers. Peacemakers don’t start wars.
Mr. Ferdinand Reinke
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If you want to support the troops, bring them all home for Labor Day!
How Ron Paul Changed My Heart and Mind By Mike Marion August 9, 2013
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Ron Paul blew my mind the first time I saw him on one of the talking head shows. Some of it made perfect sense, but some of it sounded downright heretical. How could this man say such sensible things about taxes and the economy, and then the next moment become a naïve lefty spouting nonsense like “peace brings prosperity” and “war is always destructive”? Didn’t this guy know that WWII ended the Great Depression? That Reagan beat the Soviets with an arms build-up? Jeez, didn’t he know that the U.S. waged war to beat slavery, and Nazism, and Communism? Peace through strength, man!
It was around this time that I slaughtered my first sacred cow: the War on Drugs. It became clear to me that this war was economically foolish. The argument that “prohibition on alcohol didn’t work, prohibition on drugs doesn’t work” made logical sense. I realized that I could not possibly justify locking anyone in a cage for a victimless crime, particularly as I enjoyed a couple cold beers at home while watching politics on TV. I started to identify as a libertarian, and I began to suspect that if I could be wrong on such an obvious issue as this war on the American people, maybe I would need to rethink everything.
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The “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” was really my second “Sacred Cow”.
I avoid the drugs in the Sixties.
But it was the Viet Nam war that really opened my eyes.
I wasn’t smart enough to be a draft resister. (But I should have been.)
As the slaughter evolved, it should have been apparent that it was a stupid idea, propagated by stupid people, by politicians who were using it for their own gain.
I knew from my interest in the Civil War that the “Generals” fought a European style war, on the American terrain, with weapons that obviated the strategy and tactics they were using. It was a bloodbath.
And, I knew it was Lincoln’s fault. (I never worshiped at that particular alter. He said it was about “tax collection” in his first inaugural address, but I know few have ever read that.)
The “Drug War” was another joke.
I was already a little L libertarian when Ron Paul emerged. I knew about him before most anyone else did. I found him in the Libertarian stuff and, studied him when I heard his voting record — 235-1 aka Doctor No long before James Bond.
I am not persuasive. I r an injineer. fat old white guy injineer to be precise.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein
The USA, it’s politicians and bureaucrats, as well as it’s Sheeple, Mundanes, and Clovers, are all nuts!
“We are leaving Afghanistan after 12 years with nothing to show for it but trillions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives lost. Afghanistan is a devastated country with a weak, puppet government—and now we negotiate with those very people we fought for those 12 years, who are preparing to return to power! Still we learn nothing.”
— Ron Paul
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Imagine if the Sheeple and Clovers could have seen who the ONLY anti-war candidate was.
And, he’s the “loon”?
As Clint Eastwood said: “I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean — you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it — they did there for 10 years.”
“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
– Muhammad Ali
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When I think of myself thirty years ago, my views today are different — some the same; some vastly different.
I’ve always been pro-life, but that has matured to be an anti-death penalty anti-war pro-choice pro-lifer. (The Gooferment has made this a polarizing issue. While I believe we have to preserve and value life, but not by force. It has to be done by moral persuasion. Winning the hearts and minds of our fellow humans. Certainly not by diktats and guns.)
I was pro-government; now I’m some sort of a little L libertarian that hates Gooferment!
BUSINESS ‘STUNNINGLY, BREATHTAKINGLY NAIVE’: NEWT GINGRICH REALLY DIDN’T LIKE OBAMA’S TERROR POLICY SPEECH May. 26, 2013 3:22pm Becket Adams
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Gingrich went on to criticize the Obama administration for ignoring the threat that radical Islam poses to civilized society.
“No one wants to talk honestly about the fact that there is a radical Islamism on offense,” Gingrich said. “It is on offense across the planet…We will never be at peace in the pre-1941 sense that we are not threatened and that we don’t have to actively take measures all the time.”
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If we don’t recognize the enemy and our contribution to the problem, how can we ever have peace?
The R’s and the D’s both support the warfare / welfare / crony phony corporatism.
In Memory of SSgt. Richard A. “Richie” Dickson May 7, 1988 – April 27, 2013 Obituary
SSgt. Richard A. Dickson “Richie” born May 7, 1988 in Sacramento, Calif passed away suddenly on April 27, 2013 in Kandahar Afghanistan at the age of 24. Richie is survived by his loving wife and soul mate – Lacie D. Dickson & their baby girl – Sophie A. Dickson. He is also survived by his Mother Rebekah (Kelly) Pratt, Grandmother Martha Reinking, Sister Erron Poole, Brother Chad (Michelle) Dickson, Nephew Riley Paber, Niece Rachael Paber, In-Laws Robin & Lawrence Gueths, many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends & fellow Airmen.
Richie proudly served his country in the USAF from June 2006 until April 27, 2013 as a Airborne Intelligence Systems Operator. Richie was an amazingly loving husband, father, son, brother & uncle. Richie was a kind, loving soul who accepted everyone for being exactly who they were and he will be greatly missed by all who’s lives he touched, may his memory live on in our hearts forever and ever!!!
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Anyone need a better reason to withdraw troops from around the world and be like Switzerland!
Let the backwaters places settle their own problems.
All we do is give them a unifying target.
Just make it clear, you, or your unruly citizens, attack us, we’ll retaliate tit for tat. So, these two bit “leaders” better get their people under control. Or resign.
And, just to be clear, I’m anti-war pro-choice pro-life little L libertarian, but I’m not an isolationist or a pacifist. Live and let live. But, don’t mess with me or mine. But by the same token, “sticks ‘n’ stones”.
Argh!
I read this obit on Mother’s Day and felt bad for that woman and baby!
Argh!
I’d make every politician attend every funeral. Think they’d get the message?
Jane Fonda: I’ll Take Vietnam Photo Op Mistake ‘To My Grave’ Print Article Send a Tip by Breitbart News 4 Apr 2013 post a comment View Discussion Jane Fonda has already apologized for posing with members of the Viet Cong, an act that permanently stained her among many Americans as “Hanoi Jane.”
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“There were no planes, the gun was not operable. It didn’t matter. This is an image that belied everything that I was,” Fonda said.
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Sorry, but even before this she was a vocal well-know “anti-war” activist.
I put that in quotes because like some many other “anti-war” activists, we see that they are not “anti-war” when the right party is in control.
Argh!
A lot of people have been forever changed by this whole episode in history.
She should have the courtesy of just going quietly into that good night.
At the Final Judgment, everyone will have to answer for their sins.
As sinner, I don’t envy that process for anyone. I hope that I’m more consistent and honest than she’s been.
Like the old joke, “I don’t’ have to outrun the bear; just you!”
The veteran Democratic operative and panelist on Fox News Channel’s “The Five” was outraged over a recent segment on the CBS’s reality show, “The Amazing Race.” And rightfully so. On a swing through Vietnam, someone thought it would be a swell idea to have the contestants pick up a clue in front of the wreckage of a U.S. B-52 bomber, shot down by an SA-2 battery during the war.
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How insensitive can the Liberal Media be?
I lost friends, directly and indirectly, in the Viet Nam “war”. As a country, the Gooferment screwed over “We, The People”.
Argh!
As a vet, I feel for all the folks on all sides of the debate. I was lied to as was everyone else.
BUT, that doesn’t give the Liberal Media / Hollywood the right to taunt.
WaPo: The True Conservative Is Ron Paul by Robert Wenzel
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So when WaPo says that Ron Paul is the “true conservative”, and this is what they are saying: That most conservatives are not neo-cons and that they are anti-war, small government conservatives, that is, Old Right conservatives.
I don’t know if it’s the Wounded Warrior Project commercials, the Country Music videos, or the media coverage of the Republican Presidential Primary.
But I’m <past tense synonym for urine output> off!
I’m a bubbling cauldron of little L libertarian rage.
Why?
Didn’t “We, The Sheeple” learn ANYTHING from Viet Nam, Republic of?
Apparently not.
Of all the candidates, Ron Paul is the ONLY one challenging our foreign policy of world occupation. Our Gooferment has its “nose” and “hands”, up to the proverbial elbows, in everyone else business. No wonder we’re hated. And, now the chicken hawks are drumming up a fight with Iran, Syria, … and who knows who else.
Why?
To enrich the politicians and bureaucrats. Thru crony capitalism.
Now, I’m sympathetic to the veterans’ plight. Especially those “kids” who signed up for their State’s Guard unit and found themselves in one of the sandboxes or the rock box. But the all volunteer force means that girls and boys had to “volunteer”. And, I know that there’s all sorts of nuances to that “freedom”. From old farts with delusions of patriotism, to economic pressures. With stops along the way at TV commercials touting education benefits and the comrades in arms propaganda. Us old vets are a fault for allow that to happen. We know better. (Heinlein was right; only vets should vote!)
So why am I being panhandled to “help vets”. The Gooferment isn’t doing its job in that function either.
So, let’s support the troops!
Don’t let them be used for trivial purposes that are not in the strategic interest. They are not props for Presidents (of either party) or politicians to play with.
To quote another country song, let’s put boot up the <synonym for donkey> of politicians.
FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
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