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Last week, I became aware that the Palm Beach County School Board has removed Veterans Day from its list of observed holidays. In fact, it is not even mentioned on its calender.
Though I served not in the armed forces of these united States of America, my father did and my ancestry in this country's wars goes back to the secession from Great Britain. Lastly, two of my sons served in the army, one being deployed to Iraq two times, the other three. The last one was nearly killed about 1 1/2 years ago while leading a platoon of men on a dismounted patrol at night. He stepped on a land mine and threw him high into the air and removed his right arm and leg, causing him to bleed out. But for the Grace of God, and the skill of the medics and the sawbones in Baghdad, he would have died. In fact, I was told that a Chaplain was twice called to be ready to pray the prayer for the dead. He survived minus his right arm just below the elbow and his right leg about 6-7 inches above the knee. He was recently discharged from WRAMC in July and is now visiting his uncle, a former marine, in California.

So, I say that to say I take huge exception to the School Board dropping even the mention of Veterans Day from its calender, let alone dropping it as a holiday. Essentially, it is a slap in the face of all living veterans in this country, telling them that their sacrifices are not worth honouring, that it did not count, counted for nothing. On their list of holidays, not even Christmas or Easter is listed by name. They are called Winter holidays and Spring holiday. With the exception of CHRISTMAS and Easter, which is supposed to be a celebration of the birth and resurrection from the dead, of our Lord Jesus, nothing on their list is as important as Veterans Day. This is the day for the living veterans. Memorial Day is for the deceased veterans.
I am calling for anyone reading this to bring pressure to the school board to reinstate Veterans Day this year, not to wait for next year and to cast it in stone that this will never happen again. They are the school board and they CAN do this if properly motivated. Call anyone who may have some influence, email the school board or write letters to express your outrage. Strong language is called for here, not words like sad or too bad. For this is an outrage than men like my son, his sacrifice, is unworthy of acknowledgement, of telling him THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE, and to all those who went before him and those who will follow after him.
"Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but beggared is the nation that has and forgets them." -- Unknown


Secondly, there is one particular Black County commissioner, a former State legislator and school teacher, Addie Green, who has become the very thing Black people used to claim they despised- a bigot. Remember when they used to speak in platitudes about prejudice and equality, treating everyone the same? Ever since the county went to the district method of electing officials - done JUST so they would have a Black official - she has done all she can only for Blacks and nothing for Whites. But worst of all is her constant verbal lashing of the police. A few years ago, in her capacity as commissioner, she publicly advocated all Black youth run from the police, if approached, to a lighted, crowded area so as to protect them from possible brutality. And, like an arrogant b***h, she held a press conference and, backed up by some of her cronies, she not only refused to back down and apologise to the police, who were there in force to protest her, but accused them of murder in the case of a Black boy who did just what she had advised. Afterwards, she said of them, "The only thing they left at home was the sheet." The boy was running from the cops in a car, driving with no license, on crowded school grounds. A cop on the scene shot at the car and killed him, thinking the boy might run over a crowd of school kids if he was not stopped.
Earlier this month, she again accused the cops of murder, in her capacity as an elected official. A Black boy, again but this time in a car which had been reported stolen, was trying to run over a cop while backing up and the cop shot and killed him. Bear in mind, these accusations are done in the press and always directed toward Whites, cops they may be.
This commissioner has no sense of honour else she would be ashamed of herself and, at the very least, offer to resign for conduct unbecoming of her office and becoming an embarrassment to the county. She has done this not and will be termed out of office. Even though I oppose this ideal of term limits, in her case I am glad for it.
One of the things that is most frustrating is that the local media will not bring her to task. It has become a given that if any White politician even gives the vaguest, most ambiguous hint of criticism of Blacks at anything and can be remotely thought of as racist, the press will pounce on him like a flea on a dog. Trent Lott comes to mind.  The golfer "Fuzzy" Zoeller, Jimmy the Greek were also victimised this way.
It is wrong of the press to treat any elected official with kid gloves, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. It is more wrong for any elected official, whether a councilman from a small town of 100 to a commissioner of a large county of 1.5 million to say things that comes from the streets. The dignity of the office precludes repugnant behaviour, whether it is corruption or crass talk. Such behaviour would not be tolerated from the Governor of any State, it should not be tolerated from her.

  Are real people as frightened as I am about the future of our country? I say this as a grandfather who is as impotent as the next guy when it comes to being able to play a real part in the future of this once great nation, the United States of America. Anyone who can see the past and the present clearly, knows of what I write.
  How is it that many people can continuously sing "God Bless America", when "America" has turned away from the precepts of God? Such as about 39 million abortions performed in the U.S. between 1973 and 2000 (on average, 1.4 million per year). The adoption of the pro-homosexual agenda. The general acceptance of pornography in the so-called "polite society". While our churches go wanting in membership and strong men who are filled with the Holy Spirit and are unafraid to speak the truth to man, and the truth of God, our legislatures are filled with men, and women, who are so weak that they always first check to see which direction the political winds are blowing before they cast a vote or even go outside. Am I the only one who sees something fundamentally wrong here? Am I the only one who sees something wrong with the choices for President reduced to Barry Bama and John McCain? Granted the President of the United States is not a ruler but a leader. At least he is supposed to be.
  Neither one of them are inclined to make ALL their decisions based on their oath of office!? Though this is not new (begining with abraham lincoln, most presidents have violated the oath of office), how do we the people take back control of what is suppose to be OUR COUNTRY? Or has this been a pipe dream all alone?!!

Since I have no one who will listen to my petty gripes, I thought I may as well post them here for all the world to see. They often vex me to my very core. Therefore...

Pedestrians and traffic
Why is it that there seems to be a trend that people are not looking out for themselves when they are in harms way? Lately, in the past two to four years, I have noticed this growing trend, to wit: when I am entering onto a street/roadway I immediately start looking all around me to be sure that I am not about to get struck by some car driver who is not looking out for me. The way I figure it, is this - car versus human, human loses. It matters not the least if the law is on my side. If I am crossing the street all legal and proper, and just because I was not paying attention, someone runs me over and either damages me or kills me, "the law" will not restore me to my previously undamaged condition or life.
I notice people who, when they start crossing, they fix their face, and eyes, only on the direction they are going and are not looking around as if everyone else is fully aware they are on the street, therefore, they WILL not get struck and hurt. What about those who run the redlight? What about those who are running from the cops? What about those who are not paying attention? Accidents happen and it behooves all of us to do our part to minimise our chances of participation in them.

South versus north
Why does it bother some northerners (yankees) whether or not we fly our Confederate flags? Why do they move here then get their panties in a twist when they see our noble banners flying from our homes, on the streets, specially on State property? After all, the main purpose the Southern States seceded in the first place was to protect the Constitutional right of the State to manage its own affairs as they saw fit, without interference from the general government. So it is fitting and proper for that glorious banner to be placed and seen on State property.
Hey, I have a thought for them. How about this, "You won, we lost, YOU get over it! And leave us alone!!"
Yet, the yankee sees nothing improper about moving here than proceeding to tell us how we should live. They have always done this. You know how it is when a smoker gives up his 'light', is OK for a while but inevitably will begin to harass those who smoke, first urging then demanding, that they quit smoking? This is the yankee attitude. If they do not get their way, they go and provoke a war. They owned Blacks as slaves. When it proved to be a more economic liability than they bargained for, they abolished it, slowly with conditions so they would not lose their investments. Then, by the 1830's-40's, they began demanding the Southern States to set their slaves free immediately, not only losing THEIR investments, but without preparing the Black race for the responsibilities and duties of free men.
So now, they not only have moved down here in mass, they do not assimilate and turn our fine smalltown cities into yankeefied versions of what they left behind. Sort of a miniature version of New York City/Boston/Chicago.
To this I use a slogan from the 1960's, "yankee go home!!!"

  I stated on my opening post, if I quote another, that those thoughts reflect mine and is therefore my post as well.
  To wit:Thursday 03 July 2008 by: Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers
 
 Early next week the US Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few small amendments intended to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in the warrantless and illegal wiretapping it has grown to love.

    That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it out of committee is yet another stain on the gutless and seemingly powerless Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.

    That a majority on both sides of the aisle - not least of them the presumptive nominees for president of both political parties - intend to vote for such a violation of Americans' right to privacy and of the sanctity of their personal communications is a stunning surrender to those who want us to live in fear forever.

We are living in a time when the right of habeas corpus - which simply put is your right to be brought before a proper court of law where the government is made to prove that there is good and legal reason to detain you - recently survived by a margin of only one vote at the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Now these bad actors are prepared to set aside your right to privacy - written into the Constitution as a key part of our Bill of Rights - with hardly a nod in the direction of the true patriots who rebelled against an English king and his army to guarantee those rights.

    That they will do this while the last empty phrases of the political windbags at the Fourth of July celebrations are still echoing across a thousand city parks and the bright red, white and blue bunting and blizzard of American flags still flap in the breeze is little short of breath-taking.

    How dare they?

    Those denizens of the White House and Capitol Hill and all those gray granite buildings that line avenues with names like Constitution and Independence in the nation's capitol would have us believe that we must trade our rights, all of our rights, for some measure of security from the terrorists.

    They would have us believe that a nation of 300 million people must surrender what a million other Americans gave their lives in war to protect in order to protect us from a couple of hundred fanatics hiding in caves in Waziristan.

    Benjamin Franklin himself wrote of such a debate:

    "Those who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

    The fact that British troops, operating on flimsy general warrants handed out by local magistrates, were kicking in the doors of ordinary Americans and rifling through their pantries and papers in search of smuggled, untaxed goods was a prime reason why our ancestors rebelled against their king and went to war.

    This is WHY we celebrate the Fourth of July. This is why the vote on renewing the expanded version of FISA and whitewashing the egregious violations of the Fourth Amendment for seven long years by our government is important.

    If neither John McCain, the Republican, or Barrack Obama, the Democrat, can find the courage to oppose such a violation of so basic a right then what are we to do for a president, a successor to George W. Bush, The Decider, who has since 9/11 decided what rights you are entitled to keep, what laws he will or will not obey, and whether you will be protected by these words of the Constitution:

    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

    That's it. That's the Fourth Amendment. That is what these folks in Washington, D.C., have violated continuously and in secret for seven long years.

    Somewhere across an ocean and a desert, hiding in his cave, a man of hate named Osama bin Laden is laughing up the sleeve of his dirty robe at the thought that he and a small handful of fellow fanatics could tie a great nation in knots - knots of fear stoked by our own leaders.

    We have done incalculably more and greater damage to ourselves since September 11, 2001, than a thousand bin Ladens and ten thousand al Qaida recruits could ever have done to us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt famously declared that "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." Now it would seem that we have no one to fear but ourselves and our leaders.

    The questions I pose are these:

    How can even one senator on either side of the aisle in good conscience vote in favor of this law that does nothing to enhance our security and everything to diminish our rights as a free people?

    How can both men who seek to become our next president cast such a vote when both should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder declaring that they would govern by our consent and with our approval, not by wielding the coercive and corrosive and corrupt powers that King George III and his latter-day namesake from Texas thought are theirs by divine right?

Karl Marx is supposed to have written or said, "A people separated from their heritage are easily persuaded". Regardless of who said it, it makes a lot of sense. As long as Americans have historical heroes, there is hope for the future. And, as long as these are real heroes and not propped up by the press/media.
Martin Luther King is a modern day example of this. A check with snopes.com will confirm that there is several items of some concern which tend to diminish his importance. Because, at one time, not more than forty years ago, most Americans held George Washington as "the Father of our country". No more, thanks in part to the forces of political correctness. Now, he has had his name removed from schools, fom streets, from places of honour and prominence. Why? For the so-called "unforgivable sin" of being a slave owner. So, no matter that but for him, our nation might never have been or maybe it may have come about much later as many other English colonies were simply "given" independence. Therefore, even as modern day moralists hold the behaviors of past people to todays principles, we ought to hold todays people to todays morals. As one ponders the fate of George Washington, consider this: "poor is the nation which has no heroes. Poorer still is the nation which has them, but forgets."
According to Snopes.com, M.L. King was an adulterer, a plagiarist, was never even legally named "Martin Luther". As a plagiarist, it is most significant that this he did while working on his doctorate. But, because he was a "teachers pet", the college simply overlooked this most dreadful crimes of intelligensia.
According to Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded King, after his assassination, as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Confederence, in his autobiography And The Walls Came Tumbling Down, 1989, King did indeed commit adultery on his wife, Coretta. By pigeonholing King to one speech while disregarding the rest of his flawed life, the media has conspired to manufacture an artificial hero for the American Black, raising his status to artificial sainthood. If the Founding Fathers can be removed from their pedestals, and well it is to make an honest appraisal of their lives, King is just as fit a subject.

This is my first blog. My written word is mine alone. Even if I quote someone, the sentiment is mine.
Barry Bama and Johnny Mac are all wrong for this country. Neither of them understand the Constitution. How can any one even bring up the subject of universal healthcare if they understood the Constitution. Else, it should be scrapped in favour of a new, updated version. I am tentatively in favour of this idea. Only the best minds should be applied to the rewriting. A panel of ordinary citisens would be empowered to interview the rewriters. This is because we are the ones who hold the most diverse philosophies across the political spectrum. I for one favour public executions, preferably hanging. Others are totally against capital pubishment.  I favour the sentence being carried out no more than 5 years to the day of sentencing. The biggest argument against it is that it is no deterrent. This is largely because of the endless delays in executing the sentence. The surety of five years, and bringing it out from closed doors to the public square will instill the fear of God in most people, though there will always be those who kill.
There are other areas of concern that I will address later.  Just bear in mind this. Barry or Johnny  will swear an oath to abide the Constitution and protect it. That is all.  these two things. That they do not fully understand the Presidential limitations, being eroded since the dictator lincoln,  is a monumental failure of the whole educational system of our country. Instead of producing the best minds in the whole world, most of them have been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Therefore, the best minds for the rewrite of the Constitution will not be as good as they ought to have been.