Army General Sinclair cut a deal and won't be going to jail, no surprise since he's a member of the Good Old Boys' Club. The United States military is the biggest Good Old Boys' Club I've ever seen. They would lie to the death for each other, but women beware, you may be in the military but you haven't made the club and you may never make the club because you open your mouth and tell what's really going on. You've broken the number 1 rule of the club.
General Sinclair, by his own admission, was having affairs and forcing women to have sex; but, they couldn't stand to convict him and put him in prison because they know that they are all guilty of the same damn thing. Give it up boys, the women are ratting you out and it's only a matter of time before the Good Old Boys' Club comes to an end.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
MY Comment on Michael Smerconish's Fred Phelps Comments
On my way to work the other morning, I was listening to the radio show POTUS Politics with Micheal Smerconish. Mr. Smerconish was having a discussion about religion, would Fred Phelps go to heaven if he accepted Jesus Christ as his savior before he died. In case you do not know who Fred Phelps is, he is the person who protests at American solider's funerals because he says God is punishing America for accepting gays.
Personally I think that anyone who would go to any funeral to hold a loud, nasty protest deserves to go to hell, but I may be wrong.
My comment is actually about the discussion on the remark Mr. Smerconish made that in the Bible God states that he wants us to forgive our enemies and accept Jesus Christ as our savior and then he will admit us into heaven, no matter what we do in life. Michael Smerconish remarked, would murders get into heaven if upon their deathbed they accepted Christ as their savior.
Now, I'm not a religious scholar nor any type of pastor, priest, or rabbi; so, this is my personal opinion. The God of the Old Testiment, the God of the Jews, was not a nice, forgiving God. And, I realize that Christians ascribe to the three Gods in one, the Trinity. However, I am talking about the God in Genisis that created the heavens and the earth and everything in it. Read the old testament and you will see that God was a jealous God and his ideology was, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." There was no turn the other cheek ideology.
Jesus Christ, the son of God, one part of the three gods in the trinity, and he was born and died a Jew folks. Christianity was formed by his disciples after Christ's death. Christ's ideology was to love thine enemies, turn the other cheek, and all that good stuff. Jesus Christ, on the cross, turned to the thieves hanging beside him and offered them forgiveness if they accepted him as their savior; and one of them did. Jesus Christ turned the water to wine, healed the sick, and raised the dead; so, does that null and void the ideology of his father? I don't think so.
So, Mr. Smerconish, I think that you should say that Jesus Christ would forgive Mr. Phelp's and allow him into heaven with him; but, I'm hoping to go to God's heaven and God believes that revenge is the answer to people like Mr. Phelps.
Personally I think that anyone who would go to any funeral to hold a loud, nasty protest deserves to go to hell, but I may be wrong.
My comment is actually about the discussion on the remark Mr. Smerconish made that in the Bible God states that he wants us to forgive our enemies and accept Jesus Christ as our savior and then he will admit us into heaven, no matter what we do in life. Michael Smerconish remarked, would murders get into heaven if upon their deathbed they accepted Christ as their savior.
Now, I'm not a religious scholar nor any type of pastor, priest, or rabbi; so, this is my personal opinion. The God of the Old Testiment, the God of the Jews, was not a nice, forgiving God. And, I realize that Christians ascribe to the three Gods in one, the Trinity. However, I am talking about the God in Genisis that created the heavens and the earth and everything in it. Read the old testament and you will see that God was a jealous God and his ideology was, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." There was no turn the other cheek ideology.
Jesus Christ, the son of God, one part of the three gods in the trinity, and he was born and died a Jew folks. Christianity was formed by his disciples after Christ's death. Christ's ideology was to love thine enemies, turn the other cheek, and all that good stuff. Jesus Christ, on the cross, turned to the thieves hanging beside him and offered them forgiveness if they accepted him as their savior; and one of them did. Jesus Christ turned the water to wine, healed the sick, and raised the dead; so, does that null and void the ideology of his father? I don't think so.
So, Mr. Smerconish, I think that you should say that Jesus Christ would forgive Mr. Phelp's and allow him into heaven with him; but, I'm hoping to go to God's heaven and God believes that revenge is the answer to people like Mr. Phelps.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Don't Monitor the Intelligence Committee?
Why is it OK for our government to monitor American citizens; but, not the Intelligence Committee in Congress? Why because they consider themselves above the government of which they are a part.
I'd like to know what the Intelligence Committee thinks they have the right to discuss that surveillance would disclose to us, the American public, that we shouldn't know. Ms. Feinstein, you're just making yourself look bad with all that complaining.
Don't Bite the Hand that Protects You!
Congress is in the process of voting on a bill that will cut more benefits to our military and their families. One part of the bill is to make the Commissary purchases cost the military family more; that would be the food that they purchase. Congress has already cut military pay raises, made medical care more expensive, and increased the time members will be away from their families, spending time in foreign countries, fighting wars.
Now these military members are the people that defend this nation. They are expected to be there to go to war at the whim of Congress and/or the President. These are the defenders of our freedom (or what is left of it); and, we are cutting their pay, their medical care, raising the prices of their food and clothing; what the heck is this nation thinking?
I am not an active military member; however, I have been a military spouse since 1971 and so I know of which I speak. If I were an active military member and my country was doing all of these wonderful things for me and my family, I'd think twice about doing a great job of defending the good old USA.
Now these military members are the people that defend this nation. They are expected to be there to go to war at the whim of Congress and/or the President. These are the defenders of our freedom (or what is left of it); and, we are cutting their pay, their medical care, raising the prices of their food and clothing; what the heck is this nation thinking?
I am not an active military member; however, I have been a military spouse since 1971 and so I know of which I speak. If I were an active military member and my country was doing all of these wonderful things for me and my family, I'd think twice about doing a great job of defending the good old USA.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Ukraine is Burning
If you ever have the opportunity to visit some of the former Soviet satellite countries, take the time and do it. The minute you drive over the border from the European countries you know you're in the former Soviet Union. The communists swept into these countries like a lion feasting on the carcass of a dead animal; picking the bones cleaning and moving on to the next.
Anything of value was stripped and taken back to Russia. All the natural resources were feasted on and the people were left to working in positions that benefited Russia in one way or another. Homes are made of rotting wood with paint peeling and hanging off the sides. These countries look like scenes out of acropolyptic movies.
Some of these former Soviet countries are trying to be democratic, trying to rebuild their economies and wanting to join the European Union. Some, however, are bemoaning the loss of the Soviet Union as they sit on their hands and dream of the old times, the times when the communists ate them alive. And, they actually pray for Putin to bring those old days back.
The people of Ukraine want to be like the West. They want to be part of the European Union and they thought they elected a leader who respected that wish and shared it. Unfortunately, President Yanukovych decided to turn, under pressure, to Putin. It really isn't anything new. The Russians have been pressuring them on and off since the demise of the Soviet Union.
Kiev, now the capital of the Ukraine, has been Russia's submarine port for many, many years. After the split, the Russians pressured the Ukraine for the rights to maintain their submarine port at Kiev. Now Kiev is burning and protesters are dying every day. Citizens only want what they thought they were going to get, democracy, and the right to join the West.
And, what does America do to help them? Our president wants to enforce sanctions against the oligarchs who have all the money and back Yanukovych. Why is it that we think sanctions are going to solve all the world's problems? They only end up hurting the common man. Yet when it comes to making sure America gets its oil quota we are willing to go to war and destroy governments. If we were to help the people of Syria, Iran, Ukraine, we might have our status back, but no, we want to play games with sanctions.
The once most powerful nation on this planet is afraid to provoke Russia. Even though we know that Putin will push into Ukraine once its government has been torn apart and he will take over parts of Ukraine as he did in Georgia. Putin is trying to resurrect at least a semblance of the old Soviet Union on the backs of the innocent citizens who would fight and die for their independence; for their right to live like those in the West.
I side with the citizens of Ukraine and I pray that they will be able to overcome. Fight on Ukraine even if the burning continues.
Anything of value was stripped and taken back to Russia. All the natural resources were feasted on and the people were left to working in positions that benefited Russia in one way or another. Homes are made of rotting wood with paint peeling and hanging off the sides. These countries look like scenes out of acropolyptic movies.
Some of these former Soviet countries are trying to be democratic, trying to rebuild their economies and wanting to join the European Union. Some, however, are bemoaning the loss of the Soviet Union as they sit on their hands and dream of the old times, the times when the communists ate them alive. And, they actually pray for Putin to bring those old days back.
The people of Ukraine want to be like the West. They want to be part of the European Union and they thought they elected a leader who respected that wish and shared it. Unfortunately, President Yanukovych decided to turn, under pressure, to Putin. It really isn't anything new. The Russians have been pressuring them on and off since the demise of the Soviet Union.
Kiev, now the capital of the Ukraine, has been Russia's submarine port for many, many years. After the split, the Russians pressured the Ukraine for the rights to maintain their submarine port at Kiev. Now Kiev is burning and protesters are dying every day. Citizens only want what they thought they were going to get, democracy, and the right to join the West.
And, what does America do to help them? Our president wants to enforce sanctions against the oligarchs who have all the money and back Yanukovych. Why is it that we think sanctions are going to solve all the world's problems? They only end up hurting the common man. Yet when it comes to making sure America gets its oil quota we are willing to go to war and destroy governments. If we were to help the people of Syria, Iran, Ukraine, we might have our status back, but no, we want to play games with sanctions.
The once most powerful nation on this planet is afraid to provoke Russia. Even though we know that Putin will push into Ukraine once its government has been torn apart and he will take over parts of Ukraine as he did in Georgia. Putin is trying to resurrect at least a semblance of the old Soviet Union on the backs of the innocent citizens who would fight and die for their independence; for their right to live like those in the West.
I side with the citizens of Ukraine and I pray that they will be able to overcome. Fight on Ukraine even if the burning continues.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Eric Snowden, Traitor or Whistleblower
Civil servants of the Federal government take an oath to support and defend the government, I took that oath in 1984 and kept it for over 20 years. Now I am a government contractor, the same as Mr. Snowden, and we didn't have to take this oath; but, we are told that the government pays us to do a specific job and what the Federal employees, who work around us or with us, do is not our concern. In my case this is pretty much true. I go to work, analyze the materials assigned to me, write my analyses, give them to my supervisor, and go home. If I want to continue to do my job and keep my security clearance, I do not divulge government classified material.
Eric Snowden, stole classified materials and took them out of the government secure facilities in order to divulge them. Then when he was identified as the person who divulged classified government materials, instead of owning up and facing the consequences, he takes off out of the country to Russia. Now, let me tell you that in order to get on a plane and fly into Russian airspace, one must have a written invitation from Russia. You can't just jump on a plane and fly to Russia because you feel like it, and if someone tells you that you can and/or that they do, they are lying to you. Mr. Snowden is now living temporarily in Russia, at the invitation of that government, and he's saying that he is allowed to do this without revealing the classified materials he took with him. He's full of bull, never happen in our lifetimes.
Now, Mr. Snowden wants, and apparently a lot of Americans want, him to be pardoned or receive a reduced sentence because he isn't a traitor, he's a whistleblower. A whistleblower is someone who believes things are being handled incorrectly or illegally and so they go to their superiors and tells them. Whistleblowers do not steal classified government material and take it to communist countries or sell it to media outlets... that is a traitor. Why do you think Mr. Snowden is living in Russia, because he likes it there and just wants America to change the way they are doing things, baloney.
When I worked for the Federal government as a civil servant, I signed forms allowing them to bug my phone because I have nothing to hide. I do not talked to anyone about committing terrorist acts or about subverting the American government, so....they can listen to my phone calls all they want, I don't care. Yes, our government bugs phones, foreign and domestic. Should they be keeping this information on innocent American citizens? NO, I do not believe they should, so bringing this to the public's attention should have been done, in my opinion, but stealing the information, going to Russia to live, and having the information published in international media is not the way a whistleblower would have handled it.
Take the time to read Eric Snowden's articles and you'll see that he is a self-righteous SOB. He wants it all his way or not at all, he is right and everyone else is wrong. He is smug and enjoying his notoriety. Those of you who think what he did was right about making the public aware of the phone taps and keeping personal information on file, have a point; but, the way Eric Snowden is going about it, is very, very wrong. He's a traitor and should be prosecuted as one. Come on home Mr. Snowden judgment is waiting for you.
Eric Snowden, stole classified materials and took them out of the government secure facilities in order to divulge them. Then when he was identified as the person who divulged classified government materials, instead of owning up and facing the consequences, he takes off out of the country to Russia. Now, let me tell you that in order to get on a plane and fly into Russian airspace, one must have a written invitation from Russia. You can't just jump on a plane and fly to Russia because you feel like it, and if someone tells you that you can and/or that they do, they are lying to you. Mr. Snowden is now living temporarily in Russia, at the invitation of that government, and he's saying that he is allowed to do this without revealing the classified materials he took with him. He's full of bull, never happen in our lifetimes.
Now, Mr. Snowden wants, and apparently a lot of Americans want, him to be pardoned or receive a reduced sentence because he isn't a traitor, he's a whistleblower. A whistleblower is someone who believes things are being handled incorrectly or illegally and so they go to their superiors and tells them. Whistleblowers do not steal classified government material and take it to communist countries or sell it to media outlets... that is a traitor. Why do you think Mr. Snowden is living in Russia, because he likes it there and just wants America to change the way they are doing things, baloney.
When I worked for the Federal government as a civil servant, I signed forms allowing them to bug my phone because I have nothing to hide. I do not talked to anyone about committing terrorist acts or about subverting the American government, so....they can listen to my phone calls all they want, I don't care. Yes, our government bugs phones, foreign and domestic. Should they be keeping this information on innocent American citizens? NO, I do not believe they should, so bringing this to the public's attention should have been done, in my opinion, but stealing the information, going to Russia to live, and having the information published in international media is not the way a whistleblower would have handled it.
Take the time to read Eric Snowden's articles and you'll see that he is a self-righteous SOB. He wants it all his way or not at all, he is right and everyone else is wrong. He is smug and enjoying his notoriety. Those of you who think what he did was right about making the public aware of the phone taps and keeping personal information on file, have a point; but, the way Eric Snowden is going about it, is very, very wrong. He's a traitor and should be prosecuted as one. Come on home Mr. Snowden judgment is waiting for you.
Forgiveness
Someone recently made the following remark in my presence: "I'll never forgive my grandmother." What did your grandmother do to you that was so terrible that you'll never forgive her? Nothing, she did something terrible to somone else.
Have you read the Bible concerning forgiveness? Or, the Lord's Prayer? The Lord's Prayer says, "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." Translation: forgive our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.
So...we have the power to forgive those who do things to us and to ask for forgiveness for the things we do to others; but, we do not have the right to forgive someone or to ask for forgiveness for someone who does ill will to someone else. That can only be done by the person that was wronged.
Now, we can say that we do not like the things a person does and so we do not want to socialize with that person, or be friends with that person; but, before we do that we should find out why that person did what they did or why they act in the manner that they do so as to make you not want to be friends with them. However, in this case the Bible states that the first one among us without sin should cast the first stone.
Even though people make the statement that Christ was the only perfect person to walk the earth without committing a sin; and therefore, he is the only one who can sit in judgment of others...Christ stated on various occasions in the Bible that he was not perfect because of his human side. He went so far as to ask his father in heaven for forgiveness for the fact that he didn't want to die on the cross.
My point in this blog is to state that we should find out all the facts of the story before we condemn someone for something they have done to us or to someone else, because no one is perfect.
Have you read the Bible concerning forgiveness? Or, the Lord's Prayer? The Lord's Prayer says, "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." Translation: forgive our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.
So...we have the power to forgive those who do things to us and to ask for forgiveness for the things we do to others; but, we do not have the right to forgive someone or to ask for forgiveness for someone who does ill will to someone else. That can only be done by the person that was wronged.
Now, we can say that we do not like the things a person does and so we do not want to socialize with that person, or be friends with that person; but, before we do that we should find out why that person did what they did or why they act in the manner that they do so as to make you not want to be friends with them. However, in this case the Bible states that the first one among us without sin should cast the first stone.
Even though people make the statement that Christ was the only perfect person to walk the earth without committing a sin; and therefore, he is the only one who can sit in judgment of others...Christ stated on various occasions in the Bible that he was not perfect because of his human side. He went so far as to ask his father in heaven for forgiveness for the fact that he didn't want to die on the cross.
My point in this blog is to state that we should find out all the facts of the story before we condemn someone for something they have done to us or to someone else, because no one is perfect.
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