What You Don't Know About Benghazi

These two articles recount the chilling details of the Benghazi attacks and the cover-up. I feel that every American should know the truth. We will not get it through the media. We need every blogger in the country to re-post these stories.

 

Chuck

 

THIS FROM CYNTHIA LEE MEYERS 
 "Here is my story. A week out the Embassy in Tripoli began receiving multiple tips about an Al Qaeda cell in the area planning an attack on 9/11 in response to the killing of Bin Laden. For the next several days, the State Dept. and WH (White House) were asked for a security force and were denied at least six times. Ambassador Stevens and his team were given the all clear that the consulate in Benghazi was safe and there was no need for a security force other than his 3 personal guards (One being my cousin) and a few Libyans who were not armed.
Then the attack and murders occurred. Immediately the WH claimed it was a protest gone bad over a you tube video. Obama made a quick speech in the Rose Garden on Sept.12 before catching a plane to Vegas to campaign. He made a generic statement at the end of his speech after placing the blame on an overheated protest over the video. He said "No act of terror will shake the resolve of America. Later that day and over the next 2 days, the liberal media began saying Ambassador Stevens and the other 3 men died of smoke inhalation.

 

This was not the case. Out of respect for my cousin, I'm not going to be specific about his murder. However,  Ambassador Stevens was brutally murdered. His genitals were cut off, he was sodomized and beaten and cut and stabbed and burned. He was drug thru the streets and left for dead. This is eyewitness testimony of a local doctor who found the ambassador in a ditch and tried to save his life. He had no idea who he was. The other 3 men, including my cousin, met similar fates. And deaths due to smoke inhalation is a 100% fabricated LIE.

 

The next week I drove my aunt and uncle and 2 others to DC to receive his body. We met with Hillary, Panetta, and Susan Rice. ALL of whom apologized and said it was a protest gone bad over a video and exited the area. Next Obama entered with the same  story and didn't apologize and wasn't sympathetic. My aunt cried to this man and all he did was hand her flowers and walk away. I tried to get his attention, but didn't. I got upset and yelled liar to him, he kept walking. Then a secret service agent grabbed my arm and led me to a room where I was held till the proceedings were over.
America, I saw firsthand how cold this man is. What kind of liar he is.  So many American's haven't a clue about this tyrant. These murders and the "fast and furious" cover ups make Watergate look like a kid who told his best friend's secret to the class.
We must stop this man, and please pass this story along.
God Bless America!
 

. . . AND THIS FROM DR. CHARLES ROOTS
The news has been full of the attacks on our embassies throughout the Muslim world, and in particular, the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya. However, there's a little known story of incredible bravery, heroics, and courage that should be the top story.
So what actually happened at the U.S. embassy in Libya? We are learning more about this every day. Ambassador Stevens and Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, along with administrative staff, were working out of temporary quarters due to the fact that in the spring of 2011 during the so-called Arab Spring, the United States cut ties with then president Moammar Gadhafi. Our embassy was looted and ransacked, causing it to be unusable. It is still in a state of disrepair.
Security for embassies and their personnel is to be provided by the host nation. Since Libya has gone through a civil war of sorts in the past 18 months, the current government is very unstable, and therefore, unreliable.
A well-organized attack by radical Muslims was planned specifically targeting the temporary U.S. embassy building. The Libyan security force that was in place to protect our people deserted their post, or joined the attacking force. Either way, our people were in a real fix. And it should be noted that Ambassador Stevens had mentioned on more than one occasion to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that he was quite concerned for his personal safety and the welfare of his people. It is thought that Ambassador Stevens was on a "hit list".
A short distance from the American compound, two Americans were sleeping. They were in Libya as independent contractors working an assignment totally unrelated to our embassy. They also happened to be former Navy Seals.
When they heard the noise coming from the attack on our embassy, as you would expect from highly trained warriors, they ran to the fight. Apparently, they had no weapons, but seeing the Libyan guards dropping their guns in their haste in fleeing the scene, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty snatched up several of these discarded weapons and prepared to defend the American compound.
Not knowing exactly what was taking place, the two Seals set up a defensive perimeter. Unfortunately Ambassador Stevens was already gravely injured, and Foreign Service officer Sean Smith was dead. However, due to their quick action and oppressive fire, twenty administrative personnel in the embassy were able to escape to safety. Eventually, these two courageous men were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers brought against them, an enemy force numbering between 100 to 200 attackers which came in two waves. But the stunning part of the story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force. Once the compound was overrun, the attackers were incensed to discover that just two men had inflicted so much death and destruction.

As it became apparent to these selfless heroes, they were definitely going to lose their lives unless some reinforcements showed up in a hurry. As we know now, that was not to be. I'm fairly certain they knew they were going to die in this gun fight, but not before they took a whole lot of bad guys with them!
Thank you, Tyrone and Glen. To the very last breath, you both lived up to the SEAL Code. You served all of us well. You were courageous in the face of certain death.
And Tyrone, even though you never got to hold your newborn son, he will grow up knowing the character and quality of his father, a man among men who sacrificed himself defending others.
Dr. Charles R. Roots
Senior Pastor
Former Staff Sergeant,
USMC Captain,
U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps (Ret.)

One-Liners

One of the reasons my posts on this blog have gotten more and more sparse is because of Twitter. It has become my new, favorite outlet to cast out my radical, right-leaning drivel. So, I thought I'd share some of my latest "Tweets". These are the ones that elicited the most "Retweets" or comments. This is what I've spewed out since the first of July. Feel free to comment, bash or even agree in the comments section if the spirit moves you.

Obama voters celebrating Independence Day is like Atheists celebrating Christmas.

A Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistle-blower was broken into last weekend. Sounds Clintonesque to me.

State Dept. tried to intimidate whistle-blower into silence by having cops harass her children in front of her house. . Here comes Hillary.

While Obama fights to insure Egypt gets billions in our tax dollars, he refuses to let American school children visit The White House.

Spitzer, Weiner, Marian Berry - Libs know that no matter how evil they are, they can always find Democrats to vote for them.

Conservatism depends on the people rising out of poverty. Socialism depends on people staying in poverty. . . hence Obama's agenda.

How can SCOTUS rule that lower courts can't display the 10 Commandments while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments?

In Obama's America, being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.

In Obama's America, being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".

In so many words, Obama today said he would like to take guns out of the hands of American citizens getting their heads bashed in.

Obama thrives on racial polarity.

It is disturbing that a man like Harry Reid, with no decency or conscience can go so far in politics. But . . .it's a growing trend.

With the help of thousands of dollars from Obama’s Justice Dept., NBC's Al Sharpton goes to Florida to stir racial tensions.

I don't care where Obama was born. I care about where he lives now!

Wow, in New York City . . .rape a 10 year old any you might be made Mayor for life.

Eric Holder’s DOJ spent taxpayer money to support and promote rallies in Florida calling for the arrest and prosecution of George Zimmerman.

0bama has made it clear that he is going to use the Zimmerman case to further his attempts to disarm law-abiding citizens.

Obama does not negotiate with terrorists, he finances them.

A gun buy back because criminals have too many guns is like getting castrated because the neighbors have too many kids.

Latino man out to support Trayvon Martin mob, beat up because he was not black enough.

Obama believes (simply because of color) that the wrong person survived a fight where a man was getting his head bashed in by another man.

Hillary's trail of dead people just may include Michael Hastings, “The Man who Knew Too Much”

Does Obama ever look at pictures of aborted black babies and say "That could have been me 51 years ago"?

In Obama's America, the ability to find work has pretty much dried up in the inner cities. But the illegal drug trade is flourishing.

Feds to map every neighborhood in US to 'Eliminate Segregation'...and insure that everyone is equally miserable.

While America jostles for position on the Martin/Zimmerman verdict, Ambassador Chris Stevens is still dead.

Has Hilary Clinton ever been finger-printed? I doubt it. If she had, it would certainly solve a multitude of past crimes.

Media Madness

February 26, 2012 - George Zimmerman Shoots and Kills Trayvon Martin
Zimmerman claims self-defense. After an investigation, the police agree and decide not to press charges.

Then the madness begins

March 8, 2012 - The AP Falsely Describes Zimmerman as "White"

March 13, 2012 - NBC's Al Sharpton Uses MSNBC Platform to Stoke Phony Racial Narrative

March 13, 2012 - ABC News Reporter Claims Trayvon Shot Because "He Was Black"

March 19, 2012 - CBS News Falsely Claims Zimmerman Is White

March 22, 2012 - Zimmerman Described as a "White Hispanic" by The New York Times

March 21, 2012 - CNN Falsely Accuses Zimmerman of Saying "F**king Coon"

March 22, 2012 –With the help of thousands of dollars from Obama’s Justice Department NBC's Al Sharpton Goes to Florida

March 23, 2012 - President Obama Repeats Sharpton's Talking Point

March 24, 2012 - Reuters Describes Zimmerman as a "White Hispanic"

March 27, 2012 - NBC News Edits 911 Audio to Make Zimmerman Look Racist

March 28, 2012 - ABC News Falsely Claims Zimmerman Wasn't Injured Night of Shooting

March 28, 2012 - Boston Globe Falsely Describes Zimmerman as White

March 29, 2012 - NBC's Chris Matthews Contradicts Guest to Claim Zimmerman Not Injured

Late March, 2012 - Zimmerman's "Black Friend" Vilified by Media

April 1, 2012 - The New York Times Maliciously Edits Zimmerman's 911 Call

April 9, 2012 - PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Describes Zimmerman as "White"

April 11, 2012 - George Zimmerman Is Arrested, Charged with Second Degree Murder

BIG BROTHER GOES LIVE IN SEPTEMBER

In its April cover story, Wired has an exclusive report on the NSA’s Utah Data Center. “A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade”. Its purpose is to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails. Parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter” are no exception. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September of this year. Virtually anything one communicates through any traceable medium, or any record of one’s existence in the electronic medium, which these days is everything, will unofficially be property of the US government to deal with as it sees fit.

The code name of the project: Stellar Wind. As Wired says, “there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created.”

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has not been revealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to crypto-analyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”

In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for "Never Say Anything" applies more than ever.

Given the facility’s scale and the fact that a terabyte of data can now be stored on a flash drive the size of a man’s pinky, the potential amount of information that could be housed in Bluffdale is truly staggering. But so is the exponential growth in the amount of intelligence data being produced every day by the eavesdropping sensors of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. As a result of this “expanding array of theater airborne and other sensor networks,” as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949. I read it in high school in 1966. It came to pass in 2013.

Grandma's Watching

Most clear-thinking Americans are now beginning to believe that the Obama Administration is inherently corrupt. His Department of State and Department of Justice are in lock-step with him on cover-ups from “Fast and Furious” to Benghazi. These two items are so out there in the open, it is hard to find a “whatever it takes to keep him in office” Liberal who is willing to even discuss those issues.

However, this entire subject is what the phrase “Tip Of The Iceberg” was coined for. You need not look too far beneath the surface to come to the scary conclusion that this is a very massive iceberg.

In the interest of brevity and still make a solid point, I decided to pick just one example of something that will probably remain obscure but  bring out a glowing illustration of the wide swath of dirty politics and downright corruption this man and his henchmen (and woman) have cut through the fabric of America.

The topic is voter fraud. We all know they did it. There are the overt examples from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado and on and on. But here is an example of one of the many hundreds of ways it was pulled off.

From the time Obama took office, an unholy alliance has developed between the Department of Justice and the ACLU. Now, to most Americans, it would seem to go without saying that the role of the DOJ should be to protect voter integrity, not join with radical leftwing groups in trying to undermine it. But remember, this is the Obama Justice Department, with Eric Holder as its chief – a man so disdainful of basic security measures and legal protection to ensure free and fair elections that he has become a regular on Judicial Watch’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” list.

In Florida, a lawsuit in early 2012 was brought against the State because it was proven that Florida had an amazingly high rate of ineligible voters on the registration roles. Florida immediately went into action to attempt to clean up the problem. Wait just a minute there Mr. Sunshine State! “Not so fast,” said Eric Holder. The DOJ, with the help of the ACLU, then followed with its own lawsuit on June 12, 2012, asking a federal court to enjoin the state from taking steps to inquire about the presence of non-eligible aliens on voting rolls. It all came to a screeching halt and thousands of illegal votes were cast for? Now wait! Think about it . . . Right! Barack Obama.

From the very top of the federal government down to the liberal grassroots, there seems to be a general acceptance that breaking the law to keep Obama in the White House is perfectly OK. A brand new case-in-point just reared its ugly head yesterday when it was revealed that the IRS was targeting Tea Party members for tax audits. The Tea Party??  In every picture I have ever seen of a Tea Party rally I never saw a person that looked like he or she did not pay their due in taxes to the federal government. Most of them look like someone’s grandma or grandpa. What are the Libs so afraid of?

Of course, when we were kids, the last person you wanted mad at you was your grandma or grandpa. Then you knew you did something really wrong.

I rest my case.

You Get What You Vote For

I watched some of Dana Perino's interview with Bush 43 the other night.  It was not long into the dialogue that I heard those four words that Bush espouses nearly every time he gets to a microphone.  "Stand by your principals."  When asked how he would best describe his success in his presidency, he fell back on those words, "I stood by my principals".  OK . . .I get it.  Bush was principled.  It sounds good on the surface.  He has a set of principals that he lives by.  In fact, it seems we should feel good when a presidential candidate assures us that he will stand on his principals.  Usually, we do feel good.  So why does it bother me when I realize that Barack Obama has a set of principals that he also stands for?

Considering the virulent press Bush received and the even more difficult liberal congress, he was able to accomplish quite a number of things that he set out to do  based on his principals.  He stood strong against partial-birth abortions, he signed two income tax cuts, he increased small business incentives creating a hiring frenzy.  He also changed the tone of the White House back to one of honor and dignity and launched an initiative to combat AIDS in Africa that has saved millions of lives.  However, he also stood on principal when he outlawed stem-cell research based on his religious beliefs.  And was he being principled when he signed nearly every spending bill the democrats sent him from Congress?

And so it goes . . . We seem to have yet another principled president in the White House.  Obama sticks to his principals nearly to the letter.  Problem is, from Obamacare to immigration, from his world apologies to redistribution of income, his principals are nearly all wrong for America.  He even voted against the Infanticide Bill.  Really . . .?  What kind of person would do that?  Most of his principals more closely resemble Lenin or Mussolini than any American president.

When I think about it, we never should just vote for principled individuals. We should find out what the candidate's principals are and make decisions as to whether or not those principals spell disaster for our country.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

I am writing a blog post about Obamacare that should be ready by this Sunday.

I said should be.

Johnny's Dilemma

Johnny was a pretty good kid. He usually did what he was told and his parents knew he could be trusted. They let him carry his own wallet with his allowance and lunch money because they knew he would not spend it on frivolous things. At twelve years old, Johnny was just beginning to reason things out for himself. He began to get resourceful and save just a little bit of his allowance for unforeseen needs and wants. Maybe he would soon be able to buy one of the little model airplanes that his best friend builds and sells to the other neighborhood kids. Although his holdings were meager, it was his money. He would pull weeds in his mom’s garden, vacuum the living room and stairs and gather the trash and take it to the curb each week. Johnny did as much as he had time for to continue to earn, save and spend his money according to his needs.

Then one day, while out on the playground, several boys were comparing their billfolds. Johnny was especially proud of his because he made it himself. It was real leather with tight nylon stitching and an embossed likeness of The Lone Ranger on the side. Just as he was holding it out for all to see, the playground bully snatched at his wallet and it dropped to the ground. Several dollars fell out and began to blow lazily around the children. The bully knocked Johnny out of the way and grabbed all the money he could get his hands on. “What are you doing with all this money?” he blurted. “That’s my money! Johnny shouted, please give it back.” “Why do you have more money than the rest of us?” the bully complained. Johnny said he earned it and saved it in case he needed it later. So the bully went on to explain that it was not fair that Johnny had so much money and that there were other kids that did not have that much money and that he, the bully, was going to take it and redistribute Johnny’s money to the rest of the kids. Of course, bully’s being what they are, he took the money all right, but he kept most of it for himself and played more golf and went on expensive vacations and continued to extort money from . . . .oops. I got carried away with my metaphor.

I realize I’m being obvious in this example but that is my intent. It is SO obvious what the bully, Barack Obama, is doing in his redistribution nonsense. He is in his fifth year of “redistributing” wealth to the poor and less fortunate. So . . .are they better off with rich people’s money? I don’t think so. Well then, where are all those extra dollars confiscated from America’s earners, savers and purchasers of goods and services? The vast majority of those dollars are resting in the coffers of the Federal Government. How else could he afford to amass the largest growth spurt of the U.S. Government in history? When a man’s dog-keeper is making $100,000 a year, paid through confiscated money of hard-working Americans, it just might be time for the country’s collective light bulb to go on and we all say WTF?!

I think this is where I’m supposed to offer an answer to the problem. The answer passed us by last November. There are still far too many people out there that think Obama is being truthful and that Socialism is a much better way to run a country. The fact is, Obama is lying to them and they are lying to themselves and with Obamacare about to slam this already teetering economy in the shins, I’m feeling that the Kool-Aid has already been swallowed. All we can do is wait for the effects of this poisonous scourge to take hold.

A stronger Congress would have helped. But we will never get that again without term limits. A Supreme Court that makes rulings backing up the Constitution, rather than their political leanings, would be a refreshing change of pace. And certainly a President that simply upholds his Oath of Office would suffice, for now. Our system of “Checks and Balances” can never work when all three branches are completely off-balance.

And so it goes . . . Bloggers continue to blog, talking heads continue to talk and Washington continues to take us down a road we have never traveled before.

Maybe we should ask ourselves, “What would Johnny do?” Would he continue to let the bully confiscate his earnings as the school year winds on? Would he just quit helping his mom with the chores? I doubt it. Remember, he’s pretty resourceful. My bet is he’d go directly to the problem; the bully. He would expose him for the fraud that he is. He would help other kids to learn to be resourceful too. Soon everyone would realize that the bully was a fraud. They would ignore his lies and his boasting. The bully would have little effect when he would lie about where the money was going, or take expensive vacations or keep kids from visiting the White House.

Well damn . . . there I go again.

Who's The Boss?

Bet you thought this would be an essay about Barack Obama. Not really. Who is the leader of the free world? Considering that the general consensus is that Valerie Jarrett gives Obama the OK on virtually every movement he makes, I think I am finally reaping the benefits of Logic 101 from my freshman college days. So why waste time writing about number two in command when we can go right to the top?

Iranian born Valerie Jarrett is the Senior Adviser to The President of the United States and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. Huh? She got into the Chicago political machine in 1987, and never looked back.  Through her major areas of expertise (namely Leftist Theory), she has been able to steer President Obama in her drive towards “fundamentally transforming” the United States into a socialist oligarchy.  Beyond just being unpleasant, she is relentless, merciless and exceedingly demanding. In short, she’s no one to mess with.

So when she makes a statement, everyone listens. And a statement she made! It was just prior to the election. Even her closest staff were saying that they did not know how she could be so confident in the election going to Obama, but she was. She said:

“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”

Let’s take this apart a little.

“After we win this election, it’s our turn”. Excuse me but haven’t they been in office for 4 years?

“Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget”. Forget what? You guys have practically skated through the past 4 years without a scratch.

“The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay”. That’s the spirit! Forget uniting America. It’s divide and conquer at all costs. What a lovely lady.

“Congress won’t be a problem for us this time.” Wait just a damn minute! You sneaked through Congress the largest socialistic and economically crippling bill of all time and you think you had a problem?

“No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” That you do, Ms. Chairman

If that kind of rhetoric does not make you wonder if the Republic (for which it stands) is now on life support, I don’t know what will convince you.

So, I’ll give it one parting shot. Four years from now is simply too late. Far more Americans will be depending on Government for their entire income. They are talking about the economic cliff today. What about the Freedom Cliff? When over 51% of the people depend on welfare for all their needs, they will never again vote to be free of the ties that bind.

Hope? There isn’t much. But, as I see it, we have one glimmer; the mid-term elections. If Americans who care about freedom fail to take the Senate and the House in 2 years, Valerie Jarrett and all the Socialist/Communists that follow behind her have won.

Damn . . . I need a drink.


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Knee-Jerking

Most of us have had moments in our lives where we saw a person in a movie or on television or knew someone we admired and said, “I want to be just like that guy”. No doubt that is an inborn response as a result of our learning process from the time we are born. We watch our parents and emulate the movements, verbiage and characteristics used in their everyday lives.

I recently lost my dog to cancer. We had a good life together. I got her as a puppy and, through time, we learned much about each other. Through our love and devotion, it made each of us feel good to interact in a positive way towards one another. I learned from her and she learned from me. The Biography Channel is full of interviews where famous actors begin their talk about how they got into the business with a discussion about his or her idol or mentor. My guess is that our brains have a tendency to wire themselves into a framework of positive feelings when we find opportunities to emulate a person or pet that we admire. It has probably been that way since the first mammals walked on earth.

Like most things where the brain is concerned, the wiring can get flawed. That flaw can range from undetectable to markedly screwed up.  Children of abusive parents often become abusers themselves, mafia bigwigs usually have no problem enlisting their kids into the business and (usually after college) young people tend to follow the political ideals of their parents. The drive for fame can be very strong in some people. So strong in fact, that it can overwhelm their daily thoughts. So where does an introvert who wants to emulate other famous people go to become famous? It would have been pretty difficult just a few decades ago. But things have changed. It’s easy to become famous now. Any miss-wired psychopath can take comfort in the fact that the news media will give him or her instant fame. Fame can come in many different forms. Even celebrities mention that bad news about them is still publicity and publicity is what they are all about.

Last Friday as the first reports began coming in about the terrible tragedy in Connecticut, the primary goal of the media was to get the name of the killer. My bet is that the media felt that whoever got that name first was the winner. It’s likely that unstable psychopaths protected by the ACLU, off their meds and sitting at home watching TV alone, are not considering the children or the teachers that were murdered. They are saying to themselves, “Wow, that Adam Lanza is famous! I wanna be just like him!”

We all tend to knee-jerk during these tragedies to find solutions as to why it happened. “It’s the guns fault." "It’s the parents fault". "It’s Bush’s fault.” These are typical mantras. My knee-jerk reaction is “It’s the media”.  

Here are the headlines this Sunday morning at the top of The Drudge Report blog:

REVENGE OF THE 'GOTH' LONER...

Mother took killer to shooting range...

Pulled him out of school...

Unable 'to feel physical pain'...

Intelligent and shy...

'Evil,' or just mentally ill?

How many mentally unstable people in this country are reading these headlines and plotting their next move? Is this sensationalized information necessary? Do news directors ever consider the possible consequences of their reporting? I doubt it. It’s the ratings stupid.

I think we need a serious discussion concerning the process of reporting these heinous events. Free speech advocates may cry foul, but consider this. Which part of the Constitution do we address; taking away our right to defend ourselves with a gun ban or protecting the innocent through carefully denying the mentally ill the spotlight that they do not deserve?

The Enemy Within

Is there anything that most Americans agree on? Well, yes . . I think there is. It is the very obvious problem that our government is failing us. The how, why and who is where we have a difference of opinion. Liberals still contend that it is all Bush’s fault and that it may take 30 years of Obama’s reign to get us on the right track. Conservatives rarely doubt that Obama has it in for the US and wants to tax and regulate American Commerce out of existence.  Of course, it’s not all that simple. But it shouldn’t be too hard to noodle this out a little. As you might have guessed, I am about to give my own assessment of what I see as the three greatest threats within our own country today. Correct as they are, I invite you to add more or debate my issues if you wish.

1. Government Education and the Teacher’s Union – Radio host and columnist Neal Boortz, not known for pulling punches, states that the single biggest threat to our country at this time is the National Education Association. With high school graduates not knowing the capital of their own state, suffice to say . . . that’s a problem. With unions fighting to protect inept teachers, maybe Boortz has a point. But doesn’t it go a bit further? What’s the big deal about school vouchers? It works. Low income students having the opportunity to attend private schools is a good thing, isn’t it? It would have the other positive effect of lowering overcrowding in government schools. The voucher program in New York has been a resounding success. President Obama signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for African Americans." But he opposes school vouchers. Seems kind of contradictory to me.
2. Lifers in Congress – The brilliant framers of our Constitution goofed. They failed to include a provision for term limits for congressmen. This really wasn’t such a problem for the first 100 years or so because truly honorable men and women commonly made up the Congress and usually bowed out after a reasonable time in office to go back to their professions and family. Interestingly, it is usually the most inept of congress people today who continue to run and get reelected, voting themselves pay raises, free healthcare, and demanding hero status from the minions. Presidents can’t destroy America on their own, they need a willing Congress to finish the job. It is the ultimate “Catch 22”. Guess who has to introduce the bill to change the Constitution? Can we expect our failing Congress to vote themselves out of a job? With the approval level for Congress at historic lows, a grassroots movement to enact term limits through a national referendum is gaining a stronghold in several states. Woohoo!
3. The Vote-Buying Welfare Scheme – This is such an insidious act that I have to take a few breaths to calm down as I write about it. It’s nothing new. Obama didn’t start it. He’s just bringing it to a new art form. Welfare in and of itself can be a noble quest for any government to employ. There is a definite breaking point however where it becomes like a powerful drug. After a few injections of cash, the junkie will do anything to get more. Politicians say to themselves, “Vote for me Mr. Junkie-Man and I’ll make sure you stay right there where I want you.” And they do. They stay impoverished, uneducated and needing another fix. I had a conversation with a young man recently who had voted for Barack Obama in 2009. He said he voted for him because he felt he was going to be the great hope for Blacks in helping them to become better educated and acquire more chances at good jobs. According to my new, young friend, he feels Obama has done just the opposite; and on purpose.

So those are my three. There’s more but I’ve probably lost several readers by now anyway and I am always told my blogs are too long.

Please add your thoughts to my comments.

 

A CALL TO ACTION - Not My Usual Blog

It is well known that one of the primary reasons the British lost the Revolutionary War is because they simply stood there like gentlemen and let the uncouth barbarians (our forefathers) shoot at them from behind trees. “That’s not how you fight a war!” was the cry from the Redcoats. You are supposed to line up, take aim, and fire. Those are the rules. They lost the war. Such is the battle for the Presidency 236 years later. Republicans have not considered that fighting for office through playing by the rules will only result in defeat.

Through this past summer, I became less and less confident that Romney could win the election. It was not because he couldn’t bring enough to the table. He is an amazingly accomplished man. What he had to offer to turn our fruitless country around and ease our distress appeared to be the perfect formula. So what went wrong? If I could offer one simple phrase to sum up the Obama campaign’s success that Mitt Romney and his advisors simply were not willing to do, that phrase is - Commit Fraud.  Not just voter fraud but campaign fraud too. Take a look at Webster’s definition of the word Fraud:

Deceit, trickery, sharp practice or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.

Go ahead and look the word up. There are several other definitions. It’s easy to recognize the actions of the Obama Administration and the subsequent campaign in any definition of the word.

My first clue that this was not going to go well was when George Stephanopoulos asked a totally off-the-wall question of Romney at one of the Republican debates. He asked if Romney believes that the courts should overturn a constitutional right to privacy which bars States from banning contraception.  What? No one, not Romney or anyone else for that matter ever suggested such a thing. It’s the old “When did you stop beating your wife?” question. It finally came to light that the question was requested by members of Obama’s reelection team to discredit Romney with women. The acts of fraud escalated exponentially from there. Obama’s thugs would jump out from behind trees, toss lies or false accusations to the media and then hide back in the woods to reload. It didn’t seem to matter how bizarre the attacks were. They always hit their mark with someone. Sandra Fluke convinced woman that they could not afford birth control without government subsidies. They were convincing voters that Romney would kill old people just like he did to a man’s wife that used to work for him. It seemed Obama could say anything and it would stick like glue to at least some voters.

Yet, in the end, Mitt Romney was actually ahead in the polls. One thing all the news outlets could agree on is that it was going to be close. Really? Apparently none of the respected prognosticators added in the one element that had been staring them in the face for about a year prior to the election. Fraud. I hate to say I told you so (not really) but I was warning about election fraud for the last two months prior to November. I knew it would be rampant and I was pretty sure it could swing the election.

Just to address those who love to try the “turn around” argument by saying “The Republican’s do it too”, I say to you. Yes, there no doubt were some cheaters on the Right who tried to add fraudulent votes for Mitt Romney. Just as some Redcoats probably tried to hide behind a tree or two before they were trounced. But this was a highly orchestrated and artful work of fraud. If you need proof, simply Google “Vote Fraud 2012” and read the plethora of articles in every state where thousands of votes were diverted to Obama or where entire precincts had not one vote for Romney or where all White counties had scores of Black voters and on and on. When an election is as close as this one was predicted to be by every pollster in America, how else can you explain Obama’s commanding win when the day was over?

So what’s the answer? Should Republicans learn the tactics of the Left? Is lying and cheating going to dictate elections from now on? Perhaps. But, I’d like to think there may be another way; something that borders on rational behavior. I suggest the Republicans and all freedom-loving individuals in America begin now to take advantage of the coming disasters looming through the next four years and embrace our easily swayed fellow Americans. Continually explain what might have been. Recognize where the Latino and Black communities need help with more outreach programs. Develop private institutions where women who are struggling get a better chance at a fulfilled life. In other words, Conservatives need to build trust within those groups that need help but don’t know where to turn.

Instead of privately giving to charities, openly give time and money to set up organizations that show that Conservatism is a positive, uniting force in America. Instead of Tea Party rally videos of angry Americans shouting their displeasure with the government, how about Tea Party videos of members going into the ghettos and tutoring young people on what it means to be an American. You get the picture.

I truly believe that the Conservative Movement in America can thrive once again in four years if we put those ideals into action now, before it is too late. By instilling trust in our fellow Americans through our actions, acts of fraud would not be able to take such a foothold as it has these past few years.

I love my country as I’m sure you do. I can’t just sit here and write blogs that do not go anywhere anymore. I feel I have to take some action. My first action is to ask for your help. I welcome your thoughts on how we might accomplish this goal. I plan to write to my congressman soon and the Tea Party leaders who might listen. Please help give me suggestions as to the best direction to take. Any progress in our efforts will be updated here.

God Bless America

Chuck Drake

Private emails are welcomed.

Cdrake1@hotmail.com

That’s One Small Step

Two of the most beautiful cities in the world are Athens, Greece and Rome. Italy. Their respective histories reflect some of the greatest triumphs of all mankind. Athens, referred to as The Cradle of Western Civilization and the birthplace of democracy, has evolved into one of the premier, cosmopolitan, economic and cultural cities in the world. Rome’s history is unprecedented. The influences that the people and history of Rome have had on the rest of the world are extraordinary. I mention these two great cities now because they have one thing in common today that is a little out of character from their usual charm. Cars are being burned, stores are being looted and citizens are attacking one another in the streets.

What in the world could cause these two beautiful cities to fall into anarchy? Actually, there were several missteps that started the ball rolling. Staggering debt is the main issue. There is no more money to hand out to the citizens who have been on the government dole for most of their lifetimes. It simply is too late. No more handouts, no more bailouts and no more money to sustain the way of life that their socialist governments have promised to the people. Taxing the rich, minting more money and redistributing incomes by the governments in order to remain in power have crippled both economies to the point of no return.

So, the obvious question is, just how far behind these two ‘great’ cities is the U.S.? Not far I’m afraid. Prior to the election, thousands of Tweets offered up threats of violence in the streets if Barack Obama was not reelected. Why would those threats be voiced? No doubt, those people feared they would lose their government handouts. It simply does not matter to many Americans that we are on a Thelma and Louise track over the cliff with the pedal to the metal.

Like Rome and Athens, our government’s plans for a solution to the crises boarders on the insane. Tax the rich? Ok . . . the current tax increases on the “rich” proposed by the Obama administration will not even pay the interest on the debt for more than 10 days. Reduce spending? . . . They don’t reduce spending. They simply offer reductions on the increases already in place. Nationalize corporations? . . . .Yeah, right.

With the reelection of the Obama administration, there is now little doubt that we are going to go the way of Rome and Athens. Take away the citizen’s welfare and anarchy is soon to follow. Every Socialist regime knows this. But it is a risk worth taking in order to remain in power. And when the walls begin to crumble, the Elitists simply step aside and watch it fall.

I’m really not into pessimism. I think it is unproductive. But when I look at the news videos of the riots in the streets overseas, I can only wonder how close we are to being next.

The answer, I’m afraid is “One Small Step”.

Hey, It’s Only A Game

Cornell/Dartmouth? LSU/Alabama? Democrats/Republicans? I guess it’s all in how badly you want to win. It is abundantly clear that no matter what the result “winning is everything” has become a dangerous ideal in the world today. Take the New Orleans’ Saints for example. Winning became so important to them that the coaches put a cash bounty on the heads of opposing players to increase their chances. Did decency and moral character matter? Apparently not. And so it goes also with the Neo-Democratic party.

I have read countless “tweets” over the past two days, specifically to get a feel for just what policies, principals and other factors might have been the driving force in the minds of Democrats that lead to the stunning defeat of . . .  Freedom. As it turns out, there was virtually no constructive criticism as to the how’s or why’s of the campaign. Two typical tweets were, “We win, you lose” ROFLOL!” or this gem, “Our nigga won, u nigga lost. Now we not have to kill u nigga.”

Those are extreme but my point is, the old saying that “Once a Democrat always a Democrat” is becoming a dangerous dogma for our country. “Once a Republican, always a Republican” could be just as dangerous. However, it is not Republicans leading the charge to take us from a Republic, where the power rests with the citizens, to a Governmental Oligarchy; meaning all power rests with just a few, government rulers. Within the bowels of these tweets were many suggestions that we dump the Constitution and re-elect Obama in four years. These are serious threats not to be taken lightly.

I have a few liberal friends that have communicated their glee at the “win”. That’s fine. I don’t eat sour grapes, or any grapes for that matter. But I’m still troubled. I can’t shake the feeling that these are the same people that would happily follow the party rule in North Korea or be an approving member of the Fifth Republic Movement, the socialist-democratic party under Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. As Obama continues to dictate how it’s going to be rather than work within the boundaries of our Constitution, we continue to sink deeper into the very depths that our founding fathers warned us about just over 200 years ago.

We lost our innocence this week. America appears willing to put a bounty on the heads of anyone who gets in the way of our newly found socialist state. Many feel that there is no turning back. As more and more citizens and illegals learn that they can vote for their income rather than work for it, the ideals that our parents and grandparents taught us are withering. Self-reliance and work ethic is taking a back seat to government reliance and indolence.

But the good news is “We Won”!

Or did we?

Help Wanted

We hear the cry’s of foul from citizens throughout the country. We see timelines and charts of Barack Obama’s rise to the Presidency. Talking heads throw out names of Obama’s past associates and current friends, either with disdain (FOX News) or pride (MSNBC). But let’s play with this a little.

Suppose you and I are on the hiring board of a major business. We are looking for a new, dynamic, star in the business world. We need a fresh approach to our business because what we have been doing lately is getting us into financial trouble. Several names are in the hopper and we are going over each one carefully. The next candidate’s info sheet is passed out and each of us read the background report. After we each look up from the document, the person who suggested this candidate is ready to field questions.

Q Where are his college transcripts?

A: He prefers not to show them to us.

Q: Where are the listings of his experience in the business world?

A: His past business experience is so limited; we decided not to list it.

Q: Then, at least, tell us about his successes. What other businesses has he saved?

A: Well . . .none, yet. But we hope that if he gets another chance, he might be successful.

Q: Well then, how did this person’s application ever get to our desk?

A: Well, we were looking for someone unlike anyone else. He claims he can change things from the way they are now to something he says will transform everything in our business.

Q: Well then, at least let’s check out his references . . . ok?

“Sure, no problem, here is a list of three people that he has known as good friends for many years.”

1. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for 20 years who espouses hatred for America in his sermons.
2. Bill Ayers, self-proclaimed Communist who blew up government buildings in the early 70’s
3. Tony Rezko, corrupt financier with ties to terror financing

“Are you crazy?” No one in their right mind would hire someone with no experience, no credentials and such friends as these shady characters!”

And so it goes . . . .

True Friends

I have another birthday quickly approaching. Time to reflect once again. This past year has been a tough one for me. Always the optimist, I am sure this next go around will be a vast improvement. This last birthday-to-birthday cycle has taught me much about how unprepared we can be for what life has planned for us. Friendship, I feel, is one of our most prized possessions, friendship and a sense of humor. I suppose that’s why I still have good friends going all the way back to my childhood. I love my good friends. I mean I really love them. They have provided me with a sense of direction and comfort through my life. I try, whenever possible, to be a good friend too. Sometimes I can’t be there when I feel I should. But it makes me feel special to be able to help out my friends. All that being said, this past year I have lost two of my very closest friends, one to a strange case of pneumonia and the other to suicide.

Bill was always a little odd on the surface. He was born just days before me. His mother told me that we were in the nursery together in the hospital. That’s how long I’ve known him. We were always on separate paths through life. I partied, he studied. I got in trouble, he bailed me out. He was shy with girls, I would hook him up. He was not a very good golfer, I took his money. We went to separate colleges that were only about 70 miles apart. So we often visited each other on weekends. He learned all about frat parties at Ball State and I learned all about architecture at Miami of Ohio. We also enjoyed road trips together. The San Antonio Worlds Fair, surfing in Galveston, and getting to drink at 18 in New Orleans are great memories for me. We both left home on the same day. I settled in Atlanta and Bill went on to Miami as a full-fledged architect. Through the next 30 years or so, we probably kept in touch at least every couple of weeks. Nothing like getting a quick call from a friend who cares enough to make sure I’m OK. He was my best man at my wedding and I took full advantage of his Miami residency by hanging out in South Beach as my vacation spot of choice.

So when I found out he was sick, it was nearly impossible to believe. Bill did not have an ounce of fat on him and he swam in his high-rise condo pool every morning for years. I went to spend New Years with him just after Christmas 2010. He was very sick. He had damaged his lungs beyond repair and I knew after I left that I had said my last goodbye. He lived through last year’s birthdays and died in early November. I had lost my childhood friend, the kid that knew more about me than anyone else in the world. I wasn’t prepared for the loss.

Jerry was a guy that I met in the early 1990’s. We immediately became good friends and even business partners. Unlike Bill and myself, Jerry and I both did a lot of partying. Of course we were older so it’s called socializing. We buddied up with a large singles set in Atlanta and created many other life-long friends through the 90’s. We continued to keep in touch after I moved to a town in Central Georgia and when I made an abrupt decision to move back to Atlanta, Jerry was there to help and advise. We became each other’s go-to person that we both relied on to call and talk, bitch, or laugh with. Then he up and shot himself.

So why did I feel the need to share these stories? Guess one reason is that I didn’t want to spend my “Total Recall” week alone. But, maybe you can take something out of these words that will remind you to call your oldest, best friend just to say hi. Let them know you are just checking up to make sure they are OK. Wish them a happy holiday season and let them know that you love them and appreciate all that they have meant to you through your life. If you do that, then my loss of Bill and Jerry, melancholy as it is, might have helped us all to understand a little better the real meaning of true friends.

A German's View on Islam

Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well respected psychiatrist wrote this in 2010. It is so well written and so true, I though I should share it here.

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything.

I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories. We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.

It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march.. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Now Islamic prayers have been introduced into New York City public
schools, Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in
Ottawa too while The Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so
offensive!). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our
country until the fanatics move in.

They have already started, and we are silent.......