JDs Bunker

I posted this important link previously. The video I linked to was pulled with a message noting a copyright infringement claim from GBTV.com. Since there was no video there and only the copyright message I removed the post. I viewed this video and it is the same. This is an important video, which is why I am posting it again. Share it and spread it. The Muslim Brotherhood is “inside” and influencing the highest levels of the United States Government.

I am told, apply the golden rule. Treat others as I want to be treated. The dictum, in the context that I most hear it directs me to accept the behavior of others while hoping they accept mine. For some, that may be the golden rule.

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)

For me, the expression treat others as I want to be treated works only to twist the second most important Commandment, Love your neighbor as yourself, into an embrace of moral relativism. That is how evil works. It lures with soothing words and once you accept the assertion, evil rips the soul right out of you. Evil also rips the soul from nations.

If you have yet to embrace the first Commandment, you are ill qualified to speak to me and much less a nation of people about the second. Men know by your walk whether you embrace the first.

C. S. Lewis, in my view quite possibly the clearest thinking man to ever put words on paper, explained the phenomenon Americans now face:

Proletarianism, in its various forms ranging from strict Marxism to vague “democracy”… [is] self-satisfied to a degree perhaps beyond the self-satisfaction of any recorded aristocracy. They are convinced that whatever may be wrong with the world it cannot be themselves. Someone else must be to blame for every evil. Hence, when the existence of God is discussed, they by no means think of Him as their Judge. On the contrary, they are His judges. If He puts up a reasonable defence, they will consider it and perhaps acquit Him. They have no feelings of fear, guilt, or awe. They think, from the very outset, of God’s duties to them, not their duties to Him. And God’s duties to them are conceived not in terms of salvation but in purely secular terms – social security, prevention of war, a higher standard of life. “Religion” is judged exclusively by its contribution to these ends. – From “The Quotable Lewis”

I must wonder if Mr. Lewis was not looking through history’s window toward the future United States of America when he wrote that. ““Religion” is judged exclusively by its contribution to these ends.” The golden rule as proclaimed to us then must mean that if we embrace the first Commandment, we must accept homosexual marriage because God wants us to accept it just as I suppose that Jesus wants us to pay more taxes. Evil, while working hard to redefine Christianity with a collection of worldly edicts “I am my brother’s keeper”, lays guilt on us hoping to pierce the armor of our faith and if we succumb to it another piece of our soul is ripped away. Loving your neighbor as yourself does not mean accepting behavior that is in direct conflict with our Christian way of life.

Few things in this world are truly important to me.

My Christian faith. I cannot stand by while it is redefined into some other worldly relative set of nonsensical platitudes hoping to steer a nation toward its own destruction. I will hold strong to it and pray every day that God keeps evil from my country and me. I stand with God. A country that turns away from God will not be allowed to stand. As Mrs. Ruth Graham said to the Reverend, “If God doesn’t bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

My family. The family is the foundation on which great societies stay strong and prosper. I will never embrace ideals that only serve to destroy traditional families. I will hold mine close to me and protect it with my last breath on this earth. A society that supports morals that serve only to destroy the traditional family will not be strong and ultimately will not survive.

My American Birth Right. I am among those blessed to have been born in a country founded on the principle of God-given rights and whose founders “… with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence…” set us on a path unequaled by any nation in the history of nations. Yet we work so hard to rely on fallible men, too often with ill-intent, to guide us.

God, Family, Country. In this order and uncompromising make up the soul of America. I challenge you, if it must come to it pledge to be the last American standing.

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day —and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. – 2 Timothy 4:6-8 (NIV)

©2012

I went back to the archives and looked at what I was thinking during the 2008 presidential campaign. It is more than a little disheartening. One thing we seem incapable of is learning from past stupidity.

On February 17, 2008, I posted For the sake of your political virtue. (This link takes you to a web archive via the Wayback machine because not long after that the bunker was mothballed for a time.)

We are a self-centered bunch blindly following a collection of self-centered and self-anointed know-it-alls. We follow them to the brink of forfeiting our freedom in trade for knowing that we managed to preserve our personal political virtue. Yes, we voted our convictions for the “best” person. The one our assessment convinced us was politically pure enough to merit our vote. Regardless of the fact that he or she had no chance of taking that political purity to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Still, we have people who insist that the perfect candidate is not on the ballot. That is to imply that there is such thing as a perfect politician, man or woman for that matter. One who can truly be all things to all people and fulfill all promises delivering us to a blissful environment in which all of us can feel safe and flourish. In this world, that person simply does not exist. I assure you, however, that someday the perfect candidate will arrive and He will not be on any ballot. Until such time, it is our job to ensure that we have a place from which His light might still brightly shine.

If you can, please explain to me the lesser of two evils concept. Frankly, it is a rather tired cliché in a world that seems to function on the strength of platitudes followed by clichés followed by more platitudes.

Just as before, I hear the chatter insisting that there is no candidate who is going to move the country in the right direction insisting that one will just destroy it quicker than will the other. One insists that he will vote for the Constitution party candidate, another the Libertarian and still others insist that the best candidate cannot break through the establishment and get on the ballot so they cheer for a third party. The communists must surely love this.

I really do not care what anyone’s political persuasion is. If we got down to brass tacks, most people would turn out to be political mutts rather than pedigreed and pure. It is human nature. If your foundation rests on a political party, then you have already forfeited that virtue you so adamantly defend.

Survival of a nation is at stake and along with it freedom as we know it. There is no lesser of anything. There is good and there is evil. The preservation of God given freedom is good. Anything less is evil. As Americans, that is our charge. We have throughout our history, less the most recent years, been the guardians of God-given freedom. Either our country makes a U turn back toward that foundation or we give away to the control of men what God provided.

So if you are a political purist who must seek out the perfect candidate to assign your vote, then ask yourself to what end. I know, I have heard your arguments – at least until I switched off your radio program or stopped reading your columns and for a certain collection of you put your email on auto delete. You will be able to live with yourself and look admiringly upon your image in the mirror because you were strong and you voted for the right man. Therefore, whatever happens to the United States of America was none of your doing.

Mr. or Ms. Political Purist, it is about choosing good over evil. There is no lesser. There is only one or the other. Your vote will only go into one column. Pray for guidance.

©2012

Between a community organizer and a Commander in Chief. I believe it is about the same as the difference between a hockey mom and a community organizer.

Our Commander in Chief, who insists that everyone must pay a fair share, has yet to define a fair share. But, that is what a community organizer does. He builds a non-existent bad guy, the one who refuses to pay a fair share, and uses him to divide the community or in our case a whole nation. While the community’s attention is diverted toward despising the fictitious bad guy, the community organizer focuses on what it is he truly wants to destroy. What he most despises. He knows that if light shines on what he is really doing, his only support will come from the like-minded in his inner circle and the narcissist in the mirror.

The President visited Fort Stewart on April 27, 2012. His intent, so we are told, is to protect the troops from aggressive college recruiters out to steal their benefits. He signed an executive order before a rent a crowd of Fort Stewart’s Soldiers and their families. He was looking out for the troops and protecting them from unscrupulous diploma mills trying to scam away their education benefits. It was certainly a noble act of compassion.

In the Army, many of us were on what we called the 20 or sometimes 30 year degree program. Simply put, when time and Soldier business permitted we went to night classes and in later years we also took online courses. Our goal was to have a degree completed as we left the service. Enlisted retirement is not enough for most to live on so the reality is that one must be prepared to find the next job and a college degree is useful – sometimes absolutely essential. We all knew, and I expect that today’s troops know as well, who were the reputable established institutions having long relationships with the military. Soldiers are human and as such will sometimes fall prey to the con – something for nothing. Those institutions that will happily take your money and give you a worthless life experience college degree. Soldiers do not need an executive order protecting them from that. It does make great campaign video – looking out for the troops is always a good thing.

Over the years I have grown increasingly tired of seeing Soldiers and Veterans used as political campaign props only to look into the background to see what is really happening. I assure you that as time passes this summer you will hear magnificent stories about the great things done for serving members of the military and for Veterans. What you will never hear is any of the back stories.

While the President is determined to protect our serving men and women from unscrupulous diploma mills, he appears just as determined to destroy the health insurance benefit used primarily by military families and military retirees. Take some time to read Trashing of TRICARE. While reading it, I want you to recall all of the exemptions from Obamacare issued to unions and others. Signing an executive order in the presence of the troops is worthy of wall to wall coverage in the legacy media, but forcing military families and retirees into Obamacare is not. Have you seen or heard anywhere else about the destruction of health care benefits for military families and retirees? My bet is that you will not. It only hurts a tiny percentage of the population that has always been a great political prop, but never a significant voting bloc.

TRICARE is a significant benefit for military families and it is especially an important benefit for military retirees. An increase in the cost of their health care is a potentially severe economic loss for them because there is no increase in pay to make up for the lost health care benefit. Do you wonder why there are no television commercials showing Veterans being pushed over a cliff by politicians? If not, maybe you should.

What is a fair share for one to pay Mr. President? Men and women have spent their lives in the service of our country and today’s troops have served multiple combat tours. Do you know what they desire most? Just a kind word and the comfort of knowing that there is someone back home and safe who is just as committed to protecting them as they were and are to protecting a nation.

What truly is your goal? If it is to look out for the troops and preserve the nation, then would not your actions show that?

Have you paid your fair share Mr. President?

©2012

Well Mr. Romney, here we are sir. You are indeed the man. When the Maverick was shot down in 08, I said that it would be your turn next. You see, that is how it is done inside your country club. Alas, you are the warrior with whom we must engage the fight for the life of our nation. Ann Coulter would dub you Saint Mitt. I am not so overwhelmed.

I predicted you would win the nomination and then lose the general election. I am not Karl Rove, thankfully, so I do not rely on a lot of political, establishment mumbo jumbo to tell me the likely outcome. Nor do I rely on over the top pontification of those either for or against you. For me, it is not that complicated. You simply have not proven to me that you are a scrapper. Oh, I will vote for you anyway because if my choice is between what we have now and road kill, I will indeed vote for the road kill. Others, except for Ann, might not be so inclined viewing the outcome as either quick death by a shot in the head or a slow one by a thousand cuts.

Have you ever been in a street fight Mitt? A bar room brawl? A bench clearing de-cleating? Even a tiff over the back yard volley-ball net? That could be part of your problem. I believe you could probably throw the volley ball at your sister and storm away in anger, (of course you would apologize profusely later) but I am just not sure how well you might fair in the other scenarios. Whether you realize it or not, bud, you are in a hair pulling, eye-gouging, shin kicking, foot stomping, bust you in the doggoned head with a trash can lid, street fight. It is not going to be fair and you cannot intellectualize it away. Sadly, you are not the best equipped, qualified, blah, blah, blah. Especially not with that plastic smirk of a grin that appears frozen to your face. You are not Clint Eastwood brother. Put on a George Patton warrior’s face now. And, if you are not prepared to do like the General said, grab him by the nose and kick his behind, go on back home now.

The silver spoon scared you some, I believe. When you are in a street fight, do not let your opponent dictate anything. If he bear hugs you, you head butt him until his face get mushy. Then he will happily let you go. Silver spoons are a blessing for you, attack with them.

Most Americans were not born with a silver spoon. Most Americans would like to have a silver spoon. Most Americans do not want to take a silver spoon away from someone else. They would prefer to earn their own silver spoon. Most Americans want to live where there is opportunity to obtain a silver spoon. Do you grasp where I am headed here? There is no other country on the earth where the opportunity for a person to honestly obtain wealth is as great as it is here in the land that God blessed. You have to make that argument and you have to make it with urgency and concern. And you have to continue to hammer it home all the way up to Election Day.

Then, you have to explain where we are headed if we keep along the utopian pathway. There is no need to mention that our President’s parents were communists, or that his grandparents were communists, or that he was mentored in adolescence by a communist or that his political career started in the home of a communist. But, you could ask Americans every day to ponder why an image of Chairman Mao, a communist mass murderer would be allowed to adorn a Whitehouse Christmas Tree? You do need to show that he is on track to fundamentally transform our free republic into a single party communist state of which he is the dictator.

You will have to teach Americans about communism. Show them some starving North Korean children or the 1950’s model cars zipping around Havana. The communists believe the government should confiscate all of the silver spoons. After which, the government will decide who, if anyone, may have a silver spoon. In a communist state, there are no silver spoons except those in the government vault. Government has all of the wealth and to stay in power, it generally needs to keep it.

Then, explain that in a communist state there are no co-equal branches of government and systems of checks and balances. The head of state makes any parliamentary body, in our case the direct representatives of the people, irrelevant. He surrounds himself with Czars accountable only to him. Like what we have now. Then he challenges the validity of the courts, like now.

Take political correctness and put it in the dumpster. We do not have time for you to explain how we are turning in to a European style socialist nation. No, brother Mitt, we passed that long ago and if we do not have a new president and control of Congress in January 2013 there may not be another free election in America.

And, stop with this mime that he is a good guy and he is just in over his head. He is a much better communist than you give him credit for being. Understand, and make America understand that he is going exactly where he intends to go. He intends to turn this place into a 3rd world communist state. Make it clear to Americans that the choice is freedom or communism.

Forget the polls Mr. Mitt. This is bare knuckles and nothing is certain. Communists do not go quietly and there will be more lying, cheating and thievery than you can possibly imagine. It will be a tad tougher than the back yard volley ball tiff.

Are you ready to rumble?

©2012

Malkin – No More Mr. Obama Nice Guy

Half of us pay no taxes. The other half of us pays all of the taxes. The wealthiest among the half of us who pay taxes, pays most of the half. This does not necessarily include Presidential tax model Warren Buffett who is battling the IRS for the billion that he owes in taxes. Gee, must not I conclude that Warren’s poor down-trodden secretary must owe more. It is all so confusing, but we are talking about the U.S. tax code.

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Don’t ask me what I want it for
If you don’t want to pay some more
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
-The Beatles – Taxman

The tune could be modernized some. Maybe Paul McCartney and Rush Limbaugh can partner in producing an updated version. Nah, Rush does not need him.

If you breathe in, I’ll tax the air you exhale,
‘Cause I’m the carbon taxman.
Welcome to hell

If that is not enough to ruin the beginning of a week here in the land of the free, I just learned that the most important women in my life have never worked a single day. In liberal speak, this means they have made no significant contributions to our society. Or perhaps better stated, no significant contributions toward the destruction of our society.

My Mother stayed home. I left for school with breakfast in my belly, instead of counting on some program at school to feed me. I did not have a lot of clothes, but what I had was clean. Sometimes patched, but always cleaned. I knew what time to be in for supper, as did my siblings. We all turned out fine. We worked, served our country, paid the taxman and ultimately raised our own families in like fashion. My wife stayed home except for her volunteer work and the times when she made her world-famous egg rolls and delivered them to Soldiers standing guard posts. She raised our son while I Soldiered. Today he is successful and I have two beautiful granddaughters. I also have a super-star daughter-in-law who chose to delay a promising teaching career to nurture her daughters through the most important developmental years for children. I am betting they will do the same someday.

I heard one addle-brained liberal on a talk radio program proclaim these are not real women because they have never earned a paycheck. He went on, note I said he, to imply that if they do not work outside the home they cannot possibly comprehend the country’s economic situation. Men, fes up. Who controls the budget in your home? The woman, who dutifully pays the ever increasing electric bill, fills up the mini-van and buys the groceries also with steadily increasing prices. Unless she is one of the 46 million on a government assistance program, like food stamps, she is well informed about the speed at which our economy is traveling southbound.

Families anchor our society. They are its most important piece. A true corner-stone. Stay home Mothers anchor the family and therefore anchor America. When the family is destroyed, society will breakdown. Check inner-city America. In my often too cynical mind, I believe the communists who hope to destroy our country realize that. Thus their attempt to shame American mothers out of the house is just one more approach to accompany the homosexual agenda and free condoms in public schools.

Do you find it interesting that all of our societal ails are coming to light during what might be America’s most defining year since 1776? A clear choice divinely presents itself for us. We have a cabal that is working feverishly to push us toward being an international Mecca of utopianism – a global existence with no boundaries, no culture, no language, no God, no traditional family and no America. At least not a recognizable America.

Sadly, the people who buy into this pap being pushed by rabid anti-Americans have likely never traveled more than a few miles beyond the city block that is their world. Generally a world that is the product of liberalism – like Detroit. Anything sounds better to them than what they see every day. It is the standard con game played on a national level – a promise of something for nothing. They are paying with their freedom and they are too indoctrinated by the promises and proclamations of the con men to even know that much.

Before you discount America’s greatness, Exceptionalism and positive influence on the rest of the world go spend a large chunk of your life in other countries. Live in Europe or Asia and then come home and tell me with a straight face that America is a racist country. Visit the red light district of Amsterdam and come back and tell me that is what you want for your America and your children. If that is what you want, then this is what you will realize.

‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
And you’re working for no one but me

Then you can call me a rabid anti-American.

©2012

Spring is renewal. The grass is green, the dogwoods are in bloom, and the azaleas are ablaze. The little league baseball fields are alive with activity. Not long ago all of it looked lifeless. It was cold and gray. The baseball field sat empty, missing its heart. Each year, our spring moves into summer, then to an often breathtaking autumn only to be followed by a cold, sometimes colorless winter unless you count blankets of white snow. Beautiful in a countryside landscape, but quite ugly when touched by man and turned into dirty slush covered city streets. When it seems that winter may have beaten us down, life springs forth again in an uplifting explosion of beauty that man could never create. We are rejuvenated. For a time, at least, until we are pulled back to earth by the weight of a world whose warm bright light appears flickering and her brilliant colors fading toward cold gray. The question in our hearts is always the same. How do we break free to enjoy our God given gifts? There is only one way that I know.

Today is Easter. It is the very essence of a new start, a new chance with a promise to never revisit the darkness – if we start now and do things the right way. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we have victory over the darkness, but we must choose it.

Light over darkness. As choose men, so goes nations.

You will not find the United States of America in the Bible. You will find many accounts of the nation of Israel turning away from God, turning away from the light, only to be left by God to suffer at the hands of their enemies.

At this very moment in human history, Americans are about to choose. We will choose either the spirit of freedom or the darkness of communism. We stand in our autumn. Our brilliant colors are fading into a long, cold winter. One from which, as Americans letting go of our Judeo-Christian values, we may never visit another spring. In a nation so blessed by God I never thought that there could be such a choice to make. Most of us did not. Maybe that is why we are where we are. We have allowed a nation where freedom and tyranny, light and dark, good and evil have become so blended that for too many, the choice is not a clear one.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. – 2 Corinthians 3:17 (NIV)

I know a woman who grew up in one of the Soviet Communist east bloc nations. She told a story of walking along the street and seeing a line of people going into a store. She said that you never knew what the line was for, but you got into it anyway because maybe at the end there would be some oranges or something else that was rare. There is no one who has lived their entire life in the United States of America that can recount such a story. Yet, too many Americans unknowingly pine for a life controlled by government. They are unable to see what communism, socialism, Marxism, Islam or any other political scheme billed as utopian will bring to them. How it will snuff out the wick of freedom on the now flickering American candle.

The United States of America was founded under one enduring principle. God-given freedom. It is no accident that we are the world’s most blessed nation. At our founding, we placed our trust in God and sought the protection of His divine providence. As long as we live up to our side of the covenant, we will be blessed.

Communism is Godless. It cannot exist in a country were the people believe that their freedom is from God. So the communists (under whatever name they call themselves these days) had to first remove God.

Communism cannot stand in a nation where the people hold firm to Judeo-Christian morality. Now, if you do not accept homosexuality and promiscuity, you are labeled a bigot or an out of date prude. Traditional marriage and traditional family, the bedrock of our society, is practically gone.

Communism cannot stand in a nation whose people are united for freedom. So the communists look to divide us and set ‘identity” groups one against the other. Race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, you name it. At the end there is only one group. The party. There will be no hyphenation. There will be no individual liberty. You get the only thing the party offers. Darkness.

Communism cannot stand in a nation that holds on to the economic freedom borne of the God given freedom that created such abundance and prosperity. So, they attack wealth and capitalism as evil.

Communism cannot stand in a nation where there is a free and objective press. Sadly, we have not had that for many years. When there is a voice that exposes the communists for who they are, every effort is taken to silence it. There is no communist free press.

Communism cannot stand in a republic that holds to its constitution. So the communists make our Congress irrelevant and replace a congressionally approved cabinet with a bevy of unaccountable communist czars.

Communism cannot stand when there is a Supreme Court of the land that ensures that our government adheres to the Constitution. So now, the leader of our nation has set the final battle in motion. It could be America’s last stand.

Will we renew? Or will America go quietly into a long dark night?

©2012

In answer to the President’s call, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Reverends both I am told, along with Minister of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan and New Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shaabazz gathered at the Whitehouse rose garden. The Reverends two and Minister Lou called for a national day of calm and a healing prayer for an end to the divisiveness brought on by hate mongers like Rush Limbaugh who would use a tragic event to further a political cause and their own self-promotion. Shaabazz announced that the New Black Panther party was prepared to support with ten thousand dollars any inner city community that would start a mentoring program for young men to teach them responsibility and help them to acquire skills to become productive citizens.

The President’s pastor Jeremiah Wright, previously banished from the Whitehouse grounds, prayed as he has been known to do that God would bless the United States of America.

In a heartfelt plea, the President called for national unity adding that if he had sons he could only hope that they would turn out to be like these men with him there in the garden. The First Lady added that for the first time in her adult life, she was truly proud of her country.

Vice President Biden assured America that this was a big effin deal.

Sadly, Nancy Pelosi was unable to speak during this historic event because Botox injections froze her mouth shut. Cases of Botox were subsequently shipped to the office of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

Over at Homeland Security, Secretary Napolitano stated that the massive amounts of small arms ammunition recently ordered by Homeland Security was nothing more than a government stimulus for ammunition manufacturers. She fast and furiously insisted that there is really nothing more to it than that.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a concerted effort to root out the communists and radical Islamic sympathizers who have permeated the U.S. State Department over the decades. After she finishes this, she will lay out her strategy for totally absorbing the United Nations as a branch of the State Department, making her the de facto leader of a new global government. When asked if she saw a role for her husband, she mentioned the possibility of goodwill ambassador to Amsterdam’s red light district, but would not further elaborate.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner said he would lay out his new plan to fix our nation’s failing economy as soon as he masters Turbo Tax.

In the Pentagon, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and now Secretary of Defense stated that homosexualiztion of the U.S. Armed Forces is going better than he ever hoped it would. He announced his plan to move forward with new initiatives on that front. It will now be acceptable for men who so choose to wear female uniforms, feminine hair styles and make up that is in good taste. He added that this also means women in the military may now sport high and tight haircuts and wear male uniforms if they choose.

In further developments, and to make our fraternity of warriors more inclusive the Secretary announced that all military chaplains would have to denounce their religious denomination and profess allegiance with the one religion that would be allowed for the military. The tenets of this one religion will be those that the government supports as most beneficial to our new world view. Chaplains who do not accept their role in this new faith may be retrained as Infantry, both male and female. Furthermore, chaplains will be required to perform homosexual weddings. Homosexual spouses will be afforded all the benefits enjoyed by heterosexual spouses.

In closing, the Secretary explained how under the Affordable Care Act military families and military retirees will necessarily see their health insurance rates triple.

The Secretary was certain that his new plans for the military would have a definite impact on recruitment and retention. Due to national security, the Secretary was unable to disclose all of the great changes he was able to put into place while at the CIA.

Then it was April 2nd.

©2012

In 1961, President Kennedy committed U.S. Advisors to train South Vietnamese forces how to fight their war against the Communists led by Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong insurgency. For Americans and our abandoned South Vietnamese allies, the war ended in 1975 as the last U.S. helicopter, with people literally clawing to get aboard, lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and now known as Communist Ho Chi Minh City.

It was 14 years of war for American Armed Forces. Fourteen years of rotational combat tours as the force grew from a few hundred Special Forces advisors in 1961 to 389,000 members of the U.S. Armed forces by the end of 1966. By the end of 1967, troop strength had grown to 463,000. By the end of 1968, it was 495, 000. In 2003, when we opened the second front in our war against an ideology supported by religious radicals, corrupt governments and a practically illiterate populace, our total Active Army Strength was 494,000.

In 1969 we started Vietnamization of the war. We were to equip, build up, and train the South Vietnamese Armed forces so they could defend themselves from the Communist north and the Viet Cong insurgency. By the end of 1969, our troop strength in Vietnam reduced by 115,000. Pol Pot and friends reared their murderous heads around this time.

In 1970, Lieutenant Calley went on trial for the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at Mi Lai. Henry Kissinger started secret peace talks with the North Vietnamese. At the end of the year our troop strength was down to 280,000. The force was riddled with indiscipline that showed itself not only in the form of Mi Lai, but also with drug abuse, fraggings and racial unrest. All, signs of a tired force ready for stand down and regeneration.

In 1971, Calley was found guilty of killing 22 civilians at Mi Lai. John Kerry and his Vietnam Veterans against the War led protests. Kerry tossed some medals, not his, over the Whitehouse fence. Daniel Ellsburg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times – probably because there was no Internet or Wiki-leaks. Indiscipline continued to show as some troops refused combat missions. By the end of the year, troop strength was down to 156,800.

Beginning 1972, President Nixon announced a peace plan based on Kissinger’s secret talks, to which the North Vietnamese thumbed their nose and promptly mounted a massive offensive that was ultimately halted by U.S. airpower. Hanoi Jane Fonda made her anti-war broadcast over Radio Hanoi. Hollywood communist, what else was one to expect. Kissinger kept talking and by November American forces were gone except for some remaining advisors. North Vietnam quit the peace talks after which we nearly bombed Hanoi into oblivion. Then they returned to the talks. The Watergate burglars were busted.

Beginning 1973, Nixon announced the “end of the war and peace with honor.” Hard to tell who surrendered, but we know who the ultimate loser was. Also in 1973, the last U.S. combat casualty came. The last of the American advisors left and our POWs were returned. Also, in 1973, the U.S. Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment that forbade any further U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. Vice President Agnew resigned. Congress cut military aid to the South to such an extent that it left them vulnerable to attack. That is the polite way of saying that many Americans died in Vietnam at the whims of inept politicians sitting in air conditioned digs in Washington and who held no qualms about walking away from their sacrifice and heading out for cocktails.

In 1974, Nixon resigned behind Watergate. Gerald Ford, who replaced resigning Agnew, became the President and announced clemency for draft dodgers and deserters if they would take an oath of allegiance and perform 2 years of community service. Some did, but not many. Jimmy Carter would take care of the remainder later. The North Vietnamese hatched their plan for conquest.

In April 1975, following the desertion by the U.S. Congress, the South Vietnamese Army collapsed and the place where too many Americans died now belonged to the communists, and Jane Fonda, John Kerry….

U.S. casualties from the Vietnam were 58,193 killed and 304,000 wounded. The numbers of them dealing with ailments nor physically visible, such as posttraumatic stress disorder cannot be counted except for those who have sought treatment for a disability that was not even recognized until much later. Many are ravaged by the diseases related to their exposure to Agent Orange herbicides. They are still fighting their war.

After Vietnam, our military was worn out from years of repeated combat tours, inept politicians and what appeared to them then as a wholly ungrateful public. And all of it brought to them and the rest of Americans by a lying and antagonistic news media.

What is left of that generation of Warriors is leaving us. As we look at Iraq and Afghanistan, the toll that those wars have taken on our military, the corrupt governments it is asked to defend and support, the civil and political discourse that we see each day in America, we can only conclude that the liberals have fulfilled yet another of their self-fulfilling prophesies. Making this just another Vietnam.

Multiple Sources. PBS.org; The History Place; About.com; BBC; National Archives; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

When freedom is extinct In the United States of America, who will we have to thank for it?

I made my call in Revolting Revolution. I have been given no reason to change it. Romney wins, Romney loses, freedom loses, and America loses.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. – Ronald Reagan

We thank Establishment Republicanism:

A few days ago, I read where Sarah Palin would not discount a run for the Presidency in 2016 or reject having her name placed in nomination at a brokered convention. Well Sarah, establishment republicanism will never support either option. You are not a member of the club, never were, likely never will be. You were the token conservative on the maverick’s ticket. In a conservative nation, you were the only hope a faux conservative had to defeat a radical communist liberal. It is a sad state for what was once the world’s greatest nation. No Sarah, when following our torrid courtship you left us at freedom’s altar, it was assured that your brief dip into the political cesspool was over. The Roveshivicks and their bevy of “conservative” thinkers and their allies in the establishment media will ensure that you do not get as much as a mention at the convention lest it be with a wink and a snicker. And, if we are still looking for a new administration in 2016 it will not matter. Because there will be no America.

We thank the real 1 percent. Liberal/Communist Media, Liberal/Communist Hollywood, Liberal/Communist Billionaires:

In the late 80’s, Rush Limbaugh happened to dying AM radio. I remember listening to his program, or at least one hour of it on American Forces radio at 10:00 PM Central European Time and wondering who he was. We know the answer to that question these days. Now, he is the Commander in Chief of an army of conservative talkers. All trying to be like him, but few can. They cannot be like him because he is a natural; nothing concocted or invented just a supreme conversationalist who dearly loves poking his finger into the eye of liberalism. Mr. Limbaugh has turned himself into a powerful force in American culture and politics. It is a voice so powerful that it must be silenced if the true 1 percent is to ever succeed. It will likely take an executive order to have him removed from the airwaves and forced into exile.

Rush Limbaugh is America’s most interesting phenomena. If the liberal media wants shed of him, all they have to do is an honest day’s work. As for Hollywood, Warren Buffett and George Soros. Try using your wealth for something good. Try being Americans at heart or least understand that Fidel, Hugo, Vladimir, et al, will happily spread your wealth around to their cronies who own windmill and solar power companies and our American wealth to the other nations from whom we stole it. And there will be no big Rush Limbaugh voice advocating for America or your freedom. You will only have state run public broadcasting; state owned and operated banks and propagandist movie makers – well no real changes there I suppose except the lack of an opposing voice.

Most importantly, sadly, we must thank the man in the mirror:

I have forgotten who I am. I have forgotten my history. I have turned away from our nation’s founding principles. I am giving away my freedom, because freedom cannot be taken – only given away. I have turned away from God and the protection of his divine providence that we sought at our founding. My Christian leaders are pacifists who will not take the battle to the enemy. I am led to tolerate the intolerable while complicity hiding God in the closet recently emptied of all things liberal.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. – Ronald Reagan

America surrenders and there is no one else left to thank.

2012