Got a lot running through my mind today, so rather than try to pick one subject and talk about it I figured it'd be a good time for a "Random Thoughts" post; my only challenge is where to start. There's so much good fodder floating around out there that it's hard to pick a starting point. Well, I guess I should just go with the obvious...and if you're a liberal, you may want to go to another web site or something because you're not gonna like what I'm gonna say.
Then again, I don't think many liberals read my blog to begin with, so I don't think that's an issue. In any event, here we go...
Could Nancy Pelosi be any more of an idiot? Or does she think that her followers are idiots? (Which most of them are, by the way, but that's beside the point.) A few days ago she got her prune-faced mug on the TV talking about the SCOTUS decision regarding the Hobby Lobby lawsuit, and of course she wasn't happy. Most liberals aren't, but what else is new? Anyhow, if you haven't seen the video of her comments then I strongly suggest you do so; after that, feel free to shake your head in amazement that one person could be so stupid or so intentionally misleading. I mean, really, does this woman ever read anything for herself, or does she just rely on her liberal staff members to feed her the stuff she talks about? Her claim that the decision declared several kinds of female birth control illegal is nothing but a blatant lie, and her statement about the decision being made by a male majority of judges is not only sexist but irrelevant. That little gem was thrown out there by Pelosi for one reason and one reason alone, that reason being to piss off as many women as possible. One can only hope that the majority of females in America are smart enough to recognize a lie, and are also smart enough to do the research on their own rather than listen to this lying, hypocritical windbag.
And if you needed any more proof that the mental health evaluation system in our nation is broken beyond repair and that no gun law in existence will help, just read up on the story in Texas. A few days ago a man with a documented history of domestic violence for which he had been arrested and convicted several times went on a rampage, killing two of his ex-wife's relatives and five of their six children. This lunatic got into the home by posing as a FedEx deliveryman complete with shirt; once in the home he tied up the six kids and then shot all of them in the head execution-style. By nothing short of a miracle one of the kids survived, having only been grazed by the bullet. The madman then waited for the parents to come home and killed them, too. Then he ran, being caught by police three hours later. He's now in jail after having been charged with seven counts of capital murder - and in Texas, that means the death penalty. And of course, all of the liberal gun-grabbers are screaming for more gun control, totally ignoring the fact that you can't detect crazy with a background check.
Speaking of classic examples that gun control doesn't work, let's talk about Chicago. Chicago has the most draconian and restrictive gun control laws on the books in the nation, yet it is also the murder capital of the United States. Over the 4th of July weekend there were 82 shootings and 14 deaths due to gang-related violence, and it's gotten so bad that now the mayor of Chicago, the former NObama minion Emmanuel Rahm, is calling for the federal government to step in and fix the problem. Of course, those of us with any common sense at all realize that if gun control laws really did work then there'd be no problem in Chicago, but the events in the city last weekend - and every day of the week - prove otherwise. If you want to solve the problem in Chicago, you need to do three things: 1) Repeal every gun control law on the books and then pass a "must issue" law so that the average citizen can arm themselves and fight back; 2) Organize said armed citizens into a cohesive unit to take the neighborhood back, and 3) vigorously enforce the laws already in place in regards to violence, armed robbery, shootings, etc. Hiring more police and giving a pay raise to the ones already in uniform wouldn't be a bad idea, either. But of course the liberals won't do this, and the "logic" of why not still escapes me.
Meanwhile in Mexico, an American Marine still sits in a Mexican jail, 104 days after being arrested for mistakenly crossing the border with a weapon, and the Buffoon In Chief still refuses to do anything about it. He's too busy ignoring the illegal immigration flood in Texas and getting his picture taken in a pool hall to worry about it, I guess. In the mean time a helicopter from the Mexican army crosses the border and fires on US Border Patrol agents; the Mexican government simply says, "Oops! My bad!" and the NObama administration lets them get away with it. One cannot help buy wonder why this is, and why the socialist, incompetent buffoon that the liberals and racists in our nation elected does nothing about it. But then again, I guess I just answered my own question, didn't I?
On the international scene, Hamas has been busy lobbing rockets into Israel for the past week, and Israel has been busy shooting every single one of them out of the sky before they could impact and kill anyone. Of course, the liberal news media has totally ignored this, but this week when Israel finally said, "Okay, that's enough!" and started shooting back, the liberal news media was all over that like ants on a 4th of July picnic. Never mind that Hamas has been using schools, hospitals and mosques to hide their rocket batteries, placing their own citizens in danger of being killed by a retaliatory Israeli airstrike; no, the liberal media would rather call Israel out for shelling said schools, hospitals and mosques to take out those batteries before any Israelis were killed. The media is totally ignoring the terrorist tactics of Hamas and is branding Israel the aggressor in a type of liberal-slanted reporting that is a total disgrace to anyone who calls himself or herself a professional journalist. And of course, our Imperial President is doing nothing about it. After all, he's not eligible for re-election again, so why should he care? There are barbeque restaurants in Texas that he hasn't visited yet.
I could go on as there are many other things to talk about but my fingers are tired, I'm kinda hungry, and I hear a bottle of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey calling my name. So that's it for now, friends and neighbors. Y'all have a good weekend, and I'll see you later.
IHC
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
For JD
I got your message today, but your FB settings won't allow me to reply so I thought I'd do it here since I know you read my blog.
First and foremost, welcome home! Glad to hear that you got back safe and sound and are home again, even if it is only for a short while.
And of course I knew it was you. Who else could it possibly be?
As for the good words you said, well, all I can say is thank you. If I made that large and long-lasting an impact on you, then I did my job well in the four years that I wore the hat. My goal in going down there was to prepare America's young men and women for Air Force service, along the way instilling in them the values and disciplines that I was taught by both my parents and the Air Force. I knew that these values would help them in both their Air Force and civilian lives, and I'm very grateful to hear that I accomplished my goal. So thank you again from the bottom of my heart.
You should be very proud of all you've accomplished; I know your son is. I'm proud of you, too. Keep up the good work.
Go be with your family; I'm quite sure they missed you!
Be safe, and God bless.
IHC
First and foremost, welcome home! Glad to hear that you got back safe and sound and are home again, even if it is only for a short while.
And of course I knew it was you. Who else could it possibly be?
As for the good words you said, well, all I can say is thank you. If I made that large and long-lasting an impact on you, then I did my job well in the four years that I wore the hat. My goal in going down there was to prepare America's young men and women for Air Force service, along the way instilling in them the values and disciplines that I was taught by both my parents and the Air Force. I knew that these values would help them in both their Air Force and civilian lives, and I'm very grateful to hear that I accomplished my goal. So thank you again from the bottom of my heart.
You should be very proud of all you've accomplished; I know your son is. I'm proud of you, too. Keep up the good work.
Go be with your family; I'm quite sure they missed you!
Be safe, and God bless.
IHC
Friday, July 4, 2014
Appreciating the Fourth of July
To most Americans in this day and age, the 4th of July is nothing more than yet another holiday where you don't have to work, you can sit around and drink beer, eat hot dogs and hamburgers, and shoot off fireworks. To most retailers in our nation, it's an excuse for yet another sale in the relentless drive to make money, to garner a bigger share of the market than the competition.
To the folks who are serving in the military and those that have served in the past, the holiday means something completely different. We don't get the day off to party and celebrate; to us, the 4th of July is just another day on the calendar, one on which we get up, put on our uniforms, and go to work like we do every day - protecting the freedoms that everyone else is celebrating, the freedoms that our Founding Fathers put so much on the line for.
Just what did our Founding Fathers put on the line, you ask? Well, how about 'everything?' And when I say 'everything,' I mean just that. Their livelihoods, their property, their families, their lives - everything.
See, this is what the people of our nation today have either forgotten or, sad to say, have not been taught. Two hundred and thirty eight years ago the people of the colonies that would later become the United States of America were fed up with the way they were being governed and mistreated by the King of England, and they decided that enough was enough. A courageous group of men got together and discussed what they were going to do about it, and the only decision that they thought was feasible was revolution. They would rebel against the government that was oppressing them, even though they knew it was going to be a long, bloody fight that they most likely would not win. But to a man they all agreed that they would rather die as free men than live as subjects to an uncaring King. Thomas Jefferson then wrote a document that they all agreed to sign, all of the representatives of the 13 American colonies, a document that served as formal notice to the King that the colonies were fed up and were separating themselves in every way from England and the Crown. The document, of course, was the Declaration of Independence, and on July 4, 1776 a total of fifty-six delegates from the 13 colonies affixed their signatures to the bottom of the document, and America was born.
All fifty-six of them knew that they were signing what could turn out to be their death warrants, but they went ahead and signed anyway. They knew that the Crown would react by invading the colonies and trying to subjugate them by force, and they all knew that the first people who would be the targets of the invading armies would be the "ringleaders" - the men who signed the Declaration. They knew that they stood a very good chance of having British troops come onto their land, invade their homes and take them and their families prisoner, after which they would loot the property and then burn it to the ground. They all knew that the punishment for revolution was the gallows, and that no one in their families would be spared.
But they also knew that NOT to sign meant subjecting themselves to a life of oppresion, so they signed despite the fact that it could be the end of them and everyone they loved and held dear.
This, friends and neighbors, is patriotism. This, without a shadow of a doubt, is courage.
Our Founding Fathers put everything they knew and loved on the line to secure their freedom and the freedom of the nation, and the men and women in uniform today continue to do that. Our Founding Fathers risked their lives and the lives of their families to shake off the yoke of oppression and make America a free state, and our men and women in uniform risk their lives every day to protect and preserve the freedom that so many Americans now take for granted. The old saying is that you don't really appreciate what you have until it's gone; I just hope that it never comes to that when you're talking about the freedom that we as Americans enjoy.
I, like millions of other Americans, will be celebrating the 4th of July today; in a short while I'll be drinking beer, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and shooting off fireworks just like everyone else, but with me there will be a significant difference. With every blossom of color in the sky and with every 'boom' that accompanies it, I'll be thinking of the sacrifices our Founding Fathers and all who fought for our country's freedom made, of the sacrifices I made in my time in uniform, but most of all about the sacrifices being made today by our nation's military to preserve the freedom which cost so many so much so long ago.
I hope you'll do the same.
Oh, and those fifty six signers of the Declaration of Independence? Nine of them were Masons.
IHC
To the folks who are serving in the military and those that have served in the past, the holiday means something completely different. We don't get the day off to party and celebrate; to us, the 4th of July is just another day on the calendar, one on which we get up, put on our uniforms, and go to work like we do every day - protecting the freedoms that everyone else is celebrating, the freedoms that our Founding Fathers put so much on the line for.
Just what did our Founding Fathers put on the line, you ask? Well, how about 'everything?' And when I say 'everything,' I mean just that. Their livelihoods, their property, their families, their lives - everything.
See, this is what the people of our nation today have either forgotten or, sad to say, have not been taught. Two hundred and thirty eight years ago the people of the colonies that would later become the United States of America were fed up with the way they were being governed and mistreated by the King of England, and they decided that enough was enough. A courageous group of men got together and discussed what they were going to do about it, and the only decision that they thought was feasible was revolution. They would rebel against the government that was oppressing them, even though they knew it was going to be a long, bloody fight that they most likely would not win. But to a man they all agreed that they would rather die as free men than live as subjects to an uncaring King. Thomas Jefferson then wrote a document that they all agreed to sign, all of the representatives of the 13 American colonies, a document that served as formal notice to the King that the colonies were fed up and were separating themselves in every way from England and the Crown. The document, of course, was the Declaration of Independence, and on July 4, 1776 a total of fifty-six delegates from the 13 colonies affixed their signatures to the bottom of the document, and America was born.
All fifty-six of them knew that they were signing what could turn out to be their death warrants, but they went ahead and signed anyway. They knew that the Crown would react by invading the colonies and trying to subjugate them by force, and they all knew that the first people who would be the targets of the invading armies would be the "ringleaders" - the men who signed the Declaration. They knew that they stood a very good chance of having British troops come onto their land, invade their homes and take them and their families prisoner, after which they would loot the property and then burn it to the ground. They all knew that the punishment for revolution was the gallows, and that no one in their families would be spared.
But they also knew that NOT to sign meant subjecting themselves to a life of oppresion, so they signed despite the fact that it could be the end of them and everyone they loved and held dear.
This, friends and neighbors, is patriotism. This, without a shadow of a doubt, is courage.
Our Founding Fathers put everything they knew and loved on the line to secure their freedom and the freedom of the nation, and the men and women in uniform today continue to do that. Our Founding Fathers risked their lives and the lives of their families to shake off the yoke of oppression and make America a free state, and our men and women in uniform risk their lives every day to protect and preserve the freedom that so many Americans now take for granted. The old saying is that you don't really appreciate what you have until it's gone; I just hope that it never comes to that when you're talking about the freedom that we as Americans enjoy.
I, like millions of other Americans, will be celebrating the 4th of July today; in a short while I'll be drinking beer, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and shooting off fireworks just like everyone else, but with me there will be a significant difference. With every blossom of color in the sky and with every 'boom' that accompanies it, I'll be thinking of the sacrifices our Founding Fathers and all who fought for our country's freedom made, of the sacrifices I made in my time in uniform, but most of all about the sacrifices being made today by our nation's military to preserve the freedom which cost so many so much so long ago.
I hope you'll do the same.
Oh, and those fifty six signers of the Declaration of Independence? Nine of them were Masons.
IHC
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