This nation is engaged in a orgy of self delusion with very serious consequences. Anytime you characterize a mass murder by a radicalized Muslim as ,”Work Place Violence”, you are aiding the enemy in the War on Terror.  Oh wait! That’s right, there is no war on terror, there are just thousands of misguided and radicalized Muslims out there wanting us all dead!  But its not a, “War on Terror”.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg!  We are allowing the truth to be filtered through a mesh of left wing, touchy feely, nonsense that removes the truth from any condition and replaces it with a, watered down blather.  This blather is not by mistake and its’ purpose is directed at the American people as part of a larger plan to appeal to the nature of people who just want, ” everyone to just, get along!”   Well, that would be all well and good except it has the affect of misdirecting our will and our determination to prevail against those granted Politically Correct status.

We, as a people, want to live in peace and prosperity.  In order for us to adequately defend our nation from powers that would take peace and prosperity away from us, we have to know the unvarnished truth in all things that pose a threat to that peace and prosperity.  Political Correctness is nothing more than a “propaganda mechanism” albeit a very clever one.  By appealing to American’s innate sense of fair play and kindness, Political Correctness shames us if we dare to challenge the softening of events and even hateful speech, as somehow being, at least,partly our fault.

We need to reject Political Correctness and get back to frankness. Frankness only knows the truth whether or not it is comfortable or very unpleasant. The Truth is the Truth and no amount of Politically Correct varnish applied to it will change the facts of the matter. As a people we need to deal with,”Facts” and not some rose colored view of terrible events or hate speech directed against our “way of life”.

There was a time after WW II when you heard the term, The American Way of Life spoken and written often. When is the last time you heard or saw that term?  Why!  It has become” Politically Incorrect” to feel positive about this nation. That has been and is the plan! To diminish our feeling of pride in what, America stands for. This entire movement toward self flagellation started in the 1960’s because many Americans did not believe we should be in Vietnam, fighting and dying for other people we knew next to nothing about.  It is true that our involvement in that war was probably not something this great nation should have done. Korea may be viewed in the same way.  Sending our finest young people to die for the “liberation” of other nations is not something I support.  However, it must be the business of the American people to elect people who share that sentiment, if , in fact, it is the majority opinion of our citizenry.

What is amazing is that we have wonderfully brave young people who still love what we stand for that will go and put themselves in harms way just because we ask them to! Amazing!  What other nation has done anything like this for mankind!  None, that I am aware of.

All the more reason why any filtering of the truth must be avoided and defeated. The American people deserve to know the truth and it is only by knowing the Truth that they can make informed decisions on the path this nation is to take.  Political Correctness be damned.

I have been watching Tim Tibow since his days at Nease High School south of Jacksonville, FL.  He is a remarkable and inspirational young man!  Not because of his talent in the game of football, which is substantial.  Tim’s true gift is his leadership skill.  I, frankly, don’t know if he realizes how rare his gift is. There are very few people who can rally a group of previous mediocre  performers and, with his unique style of leadership convert them to outstanding performers.  That, my friends, is leadership.

I watch the pundits on ESPN with glee. They have been deriding Tim’s quarterbacking skills for months. “He is not a,”third down” converter”.  “His throwing motion is very poor”.  There is a palpable dislike for Tim from many who do not realize the rarity that they are watching.  Tim’s great strength is in his commitment to winning and doing whatever that requires of him to get that win.  His Team Mates see this commitment and raise their level of play in an attempt to match Tim’s devotion to winning.  Consequently, the entire Team’s performance is raised to levels that they, themselves, may not realize they were capable of achieving.

Tim is a “result” driven person!  He is willing to take the hits and to make the plays that are required by his Team to WIN!  I love to watch it happen!  He has now won 5 of the 6 games he has started at Denver.  How far he will take this Team is still up in the air. But if he can continue to show his Team Mates that he is totally committed to winning, I don’t think even Tim knows how far it can take them.

Frankly, if Tim could convert his leadership skills to business, there would be no limit to what he could achieve.  Oh, I know, people don’t like that he is an obviously committed Christian.  That is sooo yesterday,isn’t it!  Well, those that hate him for his religious commitment don’t realize it is a key part of what drives Tim in his efforts. Tim sees his commitment to God as an absolute!  He has taken the same level of commitment to the football field and, in my humble opinion, if he can convert that level of commitment to whatever he undertakes after football, he will go as far as he wishes to go.

I admire Tim Tebow!  I have been around a long time.  I have met Kings and losers all over the world!  Tim Tebow is a winner and anyone lucky enough to get to know him, has gained a great role model for success in any endeavor.

There is little doubt that the Country is becoming more and more polarized.  We are polarized in terms of our politics, in terms of our views of how our economy works or doesn’t work and we are polarized as to our view of normal behavior as Americans.  Why is this happening?  Why do we find such a dichotomy in our approaches to these matters.

Well, it all goes back to the 1960’s!  That is when I was a young Fighter Pilot and then a pilot for Pan Am. Pan Am had the honor or chore depending on how you look at it, of flying the White House Press Corps whenever the President (Lyndon Baines Johnson) decided to go to a meeting outside the continental United States.  I had the honor of being selected for such a trip as a co-pilot and the experience was very educational.  Because the trip was over ten hours of flight time, we were required by FAA regulations to have a spare pilot on board to relieve the other pilots and afford them about 2 hours of rest during the flight.  By Union rule, the pilots had a reserved First Class seat in which to take that rest.

In addition, the White House Press Corps always flew with a 100% First Class configuration in the Boeing 707 that was very similar to Air Force One in those days.  There were more than ample supplies of liquor on board for the Press Corps consumption.  I was fortunate and had a rest period in about the middle of the flight. I say fortunate because by then, the Press Corps was well oiled and very talkative.  They readily engaged me in conversation and I learned a great deal about President Johnson and the Press Corps, too.

First, they absolutely loathed Johnson. They viewed him as a Texas buffoon in comparison to JFK who had preceded him. Johnson had a dossier on each and every one of the members of the Press Corps and had made it known to them, that should they print something he didn’t appreciate, that the material in those dossiers would find its way to the person who would be hurt the most by any such revelation.  Therefore, they all feared him and despised him.

Johnson was the quintessential liberal who believed that all he needed to do was hand out enough money to enough people and they would elect him for two terms with ease. That proved to be untrue, but he sure tried to get it done.  Under Johnson, the Departments of Education was formed.  It’s task was to take money from the taxpayers and pay it out in such a way as to, over time, gain complete control of the American Public Education system.  All they had to do was to get the school systems hooked on all that money and then tell them that unless they complied with Federal Guidelines in educating our Children, that the money would stop flowing to those who chose to disobey the Department of Education.

As I look back now, it is all so clear!   One of the first actions of the Department of Education was to require that teachers be allowed to Unionize.  This was a payoff to the Unions for their support of Democrat politicians and the money from the Unions was huge.  As the Teachers became Unionized they began to demand more and more during each contract negotiation and it became increasingly difficult to fire incompetent teachers because of Union protection.  As time went by more and more rules that suited the Unionized Teachers became the rule. No longer could you actually discipline a child for gross misbehavior; instead they got a time out. No longer would parents support the disciplining of a student as had been the case up until then.  Now, if a Teacher disciplined a child, the parent would threaten to sue the teacher and the School Board.  Where before a child’s worst fear was that his parents would learn that he/she had been disciplined in school because he/she knew that the real problem was going to be when Mom and Dad found out; now the child had nothing to fear from Mom and Dad because Mom and Dad no longer felt close to the teachers and had been brainwashed that to punish a child would traumatize the child and ruin the child’s life in later years??

So we have now reaped the whirlwind of Federal Control over our schools.  Before the Federal raping of our school system, schools were controlled by local School Boards who actually had some real authority over what went on in the schools.  That is now gone and only the Teachers Union and the Administrators can move the system in any direction and they can do very little that does not comport with the Federal Guidelines.

The result is that we have millions of young people who have been cheated out of one of the most important lessons that a school can teach a young person; self discipline!  We have a sea of young people who cannot control their own lives. They have been coddled from the Cradle to Adulthood and they have no clue what to do with their lives.   There is no better example of these forlorn losers than the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd.   What you are witnessing in that “so called” movement is a group of disconnected, and pitiful people who cannot understand that their lives will be the result of the decisions that they have made and the company they keep!  So far, their decisions do not inspire any level of confidence that they will ever get it together to the point of being independent adults, contributing to society in some meaningful way.

We have some incredible young people who have learned through their military experiences or who were fortunate enough to have parents that actually instilled a sense of self worth and self discipline in them.  We see them coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan almost everyday.  The vast majority of them will carry the lessons learned in War throughout their lives and they are our great hope for the future of this nation.  They know that there is no “fairness” inherent in life.  They know that each of us must find his own path in life and that path will be a reflection of the totality of the decisions that we make.  They know that the price of undisciplined behavior is very high indeed.  It is only through a disciplined approach to the choices we must make in life that one can find their way to fulfillment and a sense of self worth.

There are so many other problems with our schools that it would take a very large volume indeed to list them, but the lack of instruction in self discipline is, in my mind, the most serious short coming that has resulted from the Federal takeover of , what was, the educational standard of the world.  Now, we are lucky to graduate 60% of the students in our High Schools and that is because they do not see the value of the education they are being subjected to.

One has to grasp the real intent of the “Occupy Wall Street” and every other place that will tolerate this group of forlorn wastrels.  This is reminiscent of the demonstrations that took place during the Vietnam War and the negative effects of that group are still being visited on the people of the United States to this day. Those demonstrators and this most recent group have several similarities.  They are a dirty, disheveled, drugged out, pathetic group of young people wishing that someone would come to “save” them.

Well, kiddies, here is the sad news!  No one is coming to “save” you, except “you”.  This is the crowd that pleads for “fairness” in everything, when “fairness” is a myth in real life.  What is “fairness”.  To take from a productive person and redistribute to a slovenly loafer?  Is that your definition of “fairness”.  If it is, you have a great deal to learn about human nature.  And learning this lesson is critical to your future lives.  Human beings are, in the final analysis, animals.  Now, don’t take this wrong.  I am not suggesting that humans are not different in many ways, but to deny the basic and fundamental truth that we still have, “self interest” as the overriding driver in our actions, is to deny the basic truth of our existence.  This can always be demonstrated by making, the seeker of what others have produced, take a reversed role and asking him/her to share a substantial portion of whatever they have with others without compensation of any kind.  I am not talking about charity, here.  Most of us will gladly share any excess income or material goods with others, but, if it is my family that is going to go hungry because I am compelled to give up the fruits of my labor, I have a real problem with that and so does almost everyone else.

This is the fundamental animal instinct of “self preservation” that is the basic driver of all animal actions. We are just not going to injure ourselves, or those that we love, in order to help those that will not fend for themselves.  Every action taken by government that flys in the face of basic human instinct is doomed to failure. That is why the country is bound up in an economic “lock box”!

There is plenty of money residing in companies and personal savings, but it is not being used to drive our economic engine.  It is being reserved for a “rainy day” that most Americans perceive as being, inevitable, given the actions of our Federal and State governments.  It doesn’t take a “rocket scientist” to realize that when your government is borrowing $.42 of every $1.00 it spends, that trouble is just around the corner.

So, what I am trying to say is simply this!  Get a job!  Oh, I know you don’t want to flip burgers after spending your parents and yourself into debt for an education that only qualifies you to take a job in “underwater basket weaving”.  But GET A JOB. Any Job! You may not like the job, but you will at least be carrying your own weight instead of looking for someone else to carry that weight.  Work harder than anyone else who has that job, and pretty soon, you will be in charge of some of them.  If you continue to show drive and diligence and loyalty, you may, someday, be in charge of all of them.

This is what my father had to do during and after the great depression!  He had to take a job he did not like, but he did it and provided for our family and sent two boys to College.  Oh, we both had scholarships, but we learned the value of hard work early in our lives. This is a lesson that too many of our young people have never had to learn and it has deprived them of the basic tools of survival.   Good hard work is, in many ways, it own reward. There is satisfaction in performing, even the most menial of tasks, well. There is a path to true realization of your “self esteem” and “self esteem,” based on true accomplishment, is the foundation of a successful life.

Get a job and stop waiting for someone to “save you”.  It ain’t going to happen!

Early in 2011, we heard story after story emanating from the Obama Administration about how wonderful the Arab Spring was and how it was an  uprising demanding Democracy in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and Syria.  We heard how terrible the response was from Tyrants like Qaddafi, Mubarak and Assad. The responses ranged from oppression and resistance to outright murder of the demonstrators by those that they wanted to overthrow.  We watched night after night as the mainstream new media told us of the horrors being perpetrated on those brave demonstrators who only wanted a voice. They only wanted a democratic government so they could have the vote and have their voices heard!

Only a few like John Bolton, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Neil Boortz had the stones to tell us what was really happening.  These uprisings were orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim Brotherhood is not known as a bastion of Democratic tolerance.  On the contrary; they are proponents of the implementation of Sharia Law, the strict interpretation of the Koran.

Now that all of these tyrants have been deposed except Assad, we hear that Libya has declared it will be governed by Sharia law. We see Coptic Christians being murdered and driven out of Egypt and the recent election in Tunisia has produced a majority of  extreme Islamists in the Tunisian Government. What a minute….What happened to the Arab Spring of liberation and demand for democratic law and the people’s voice in government!

Well, it certainly appears as though Limbaugh and Hannity were right!  The whole uprising was, in fact, a ruse!  A Sham! A Fraud! We hear of the Arab Spring being hijacked! Baloney! It was never really a democratic movement, it was always planned to turn over power to the radical Islamists! Once again, we have been had!

What’s worse, we spent a billion tax payer dollars to help them do it in Libya!  Not only were we bamboozled again; now they are getting us to pay to be bamboozled!!  How bad can it get.

This administration has been had, in spades. Obama’s wonderful apology tour and outstretched hand to the radicals has led us to this enormous realization, that Obama is complicit in all of this.  If Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity knew what was going on, don’t you think that the CIA, the NSA, the entire American Intelligence apparatus, knew who was really behind these uprisings? If you don’t think this administration really knew what was going down, you are smoking some very strange weed, indeed or drinking some very strange Cool Aid!  Whatever; the net result is going to be that our friends in Israel are going to be totally surrounded by hostile, blood thirsty, radically extreme governments, who will have vowed to drive them into the Sea or, ” finish the work begun by Adolph Hitler”!

I fear for our allies in Israel.  I fear that this has been the plan all along and that Obama has, totally, thrown them under the bus! No a fleet of buses!  This is extremely dangerous! The Israelis will not go quietly into the night! There will be a very violent end to this and nuclear weapons will not be off the table!  Just look at the size of Israel compared to the nations surrounding them that want them dead.

Oh, by the way!  They will turn to us next!  If they are successful in driving the Israelis into the sea, standby,for our turn is coming! There is no doubt in my mind that we are heading into a total confrontation with the Middle East.  There is no compromise with Jihad!  It is written in the Koran and the radical Islamists will act on those writings.  They must enslave us or kill us. There is no other course that complies with the Koran.

The question really is, which course will we take?  Will we capitulate or fight!  Don’t be so sure we will fight! Obama has said if it comes to a fight between Christians and Jews  versus the Muslims, ” I will stand with the Muslims”. It is in his book!

The next twelve months will be among the most critical in American History!  We will either return to a commitment to individual freedom and responsibility or we will go into the same status as England and France.  A, “once great nation” gone under.

Think about it!

Today we learned the the “so called” liberators of Libya have declared that Libya will be governed according to Sharia law!  We also learned the Tunisia’s elections show a strong movement to Islamism and a likely push for Sharia law there as well!

So much for the “Democratization” of the Middle East!   The Islamic Brotherhood has fulfilled its plan, for the most part, and with the exception of Syria, which is doomed to follow the same path, all of the major Middle Eastern nations will be living under Sharia law within a few years.

Anyone with an ounce of sense should have seen this coming and I believe that they did.  The President has stated in his writings that should it come down to a fight with the Muslims, “he will stand with the Muslims”.   How much clearer could it be!  We have a President who wishes to foster the growth of the Muslim extremist position in the world and wishes to see the expansion of Muslim power on a World Wide basis.  There can be no other reasoning for his foreign policy positions during the last three years.

Now we hear that the United States will remove ALL of its military personnel from Iraq by the end of 2011.  After nine years of war, 4,800 deaths and over 100,000 of our finest young people having been injured, many severely, we are just going to pick up our marbles and go home.  This is tantamount to capitulation to the Iranians, who will, within two years, be in control of the Shiites population of Iraq, and they will be fomenting another uprising in Iraq. In other words, all the blood, pain and treasure we have invested over the last nine years, stands to be lost.

Not since our abandonment of Vietnam in 1976, have we made such a stupid move.  Of course, the real stupidity was getting involved in the first place.  We should have as our national policy an absolute requirement for a Declaration of War by Congress,before we send our sons and daughters into hell for some nation that, for the most part, hates us.

These wars of liberation are nothing more than a way to feed the Military Industrial complex at the expense of the American people. We must stop this incessant need to go kill people when there is absolutely no direct threat to our nation.  Oh, I know, some will argue it is better to fight over there than to fight in the streets of America.  Don’t misunderstand what I am saying here! We must have a military force that is so strong that no one dare to challenge us.  While I am not  a fan of Teddy Roosevelt, he was right when he said, “Speak softly, but carry a big stick”.   That means we continue to invest in new weapons that make our military so intimidating that no one dare challenge us.

Sooner or later, we are going to have to make a choice!  We are going to capitulate to the Islamists or destroy them!  We continue to make the fatal mistake of political correctness in areas where we cannot afford such idealism.  They want you dead or enslaved!  Sooner or later that choice will be thrust upon us and we better be prepared for that eventuality.  The only way to avoid it is to be so strong that they dare not attack and the we must be prepared to carry out very powerful punishment for anyone who dares to try.

We are losing ground in the Middle East and the consequences will be very serious in the near future.  We are not ready for that now and we better get a government who understands the threat and how to deal with it, or we are going to pay the ultimate price…our freedom!

The past three years, 2008, 2009 and 2010 thus far have proven to be among the most trying that this nation has endured in a very long time.  While economic displacement, unemployment, foreclosure and severe reductions in our standard of living are not to be compared with the hardship of the Civil War when 450,000 Americans gave their lives in battle over secession, economic maltreatment and slavery, it is fair to say that this is the most challenging time we have seen since the Great Depression of our Fathers and Mothers or in the case of many now, Grand Fathers and Grand Mothers.

This time is unique in our history because we are confronted with some amazing choices. The ultimate future of this great nation will be determined by the choices we make in the next few years. If those choices are the correct ones, we can return to abundance, prosperity and, much more importantly, confidence in our future. Today we are beset with a dark malaise of fear that is covering our nation and our collective psyche with a blanket of uncertainty.   That fearfulness is creating a stagnation that pervades our everyday lives and actions. This is especially true in the business community.

The Federal Government is in the control of liberal progressives.  They believe that the solution to the people’s problems lies in more regulation, more government intervention into private areas of our markets and taxation to support that intervention. Therein lays the root of our problem. 

The United States has always been a nation that tolerates many diverse ideas, religions, cultures, and races. There have been important exceptions such as the slavery imposed on black people wrenched from their tribal homes and brought to America under the worst conditions imaginable. We are still suffering from the humiliating memories of that awful misuse of human life. Black people still harbor a distrust of white people and some white’s still view blacks as somehow, deficient.

I am afraid it will be many years before the lingering distrust and misguided views are gone. We are not born with these feelings, they are taught to us by those around us and we must all fight to disavow such feelings. They are counterproductive and wrong on both sides and only lead to a furtherance of the schism that still exists between us.

There are political forces within our nation that wish to perpetuate these fears and suspicions for their own political benefit.  Liberal Democrats have almost always painted conservative opponents as racists who want to take rights and benefits away from black people. Conservatives have been defensive and that defensiveness only gives credence to what the liberals are saying. 

The conservatives that I know, are not racists at all and believe that, in fact, it is the liberals who are working to keep people of color in a dependent and, therefore, compliant state.

This misuse or mistreatment of people of color must stop, and all politicians must join in bringing all people of color into the mainstream of American life and prosperity.

It is only through the full employment of our people that this nation can return to prosperity for the many.  There will always be some who actually want to be kept by the Federal or State Governments. They must realize that they are asking to be enslaved, yet again.  The price of government welfare is government control.  To be beholden to the government for your daily bread is to become a slave to the very government that offers you that daily bread. Absolute control, like absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

Let us strive to create a rebirth of the American Dream!  A dream that allows the poorest child to know that he can become whatever he chooses to become if he is willing to work hard and deal honestly with his fellow dreamers!  We as the heirs of those who went before us through the Great Depression and came through into the last half of the 20^th Century created the most abundant wealth a nation has ever seen in the history of the world.  We cannot allow that inheritance to be squandered through misguided policies that use that wealth to enslave our citizens with the myth that there is a free ride in life. That is a huge untruth and those that pretend to be caring with the institution of such policies know it.

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