Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Laugh...........

I've been taking a short break from this "exercise in futility", Missy. I've been out burning a little gunpowder, taking some long walks, trying to figure out what's happened to my country.

I've also been watching a few old history documentaries..........(history of course, being something we KNOW to be absolutely true because it's actually happened).

Studying the rise and fall of the Third Reich of the 30's and 40's...........and looking at what's been going on here for the past few years....a frightening picture has been taking shape for several years now.

Americans are being lulled to sleep by those doing artwork through rose colored glasses. People like myself, who were patriots 230 years ago, are considered "radicals" today. Because we see what they choose NOT to, we're all "paranoid."

Everyone wants results, but nobody seems to want to do what's required to get them. We'd rather follow a "magic show" than actually LEARN from history and not make the same mistakes again.

There are none so blind as those who will not see, as they say. I've had about enough of this.........dealing with fools who are bent on handing the "keys to the city", over to the very thieves who would seek to fleece it. Those who would trade our very liberty for some false sense of security.

The America I grew up in 50 years ago, is long gone, and much of our morals and values with it. I'm not even going to expound here on the drug use in the schools, the steroids in sports, the homosexuality we're all supposed to except as "normal", the smut on family television, the media-bias, the One World Order U.N., the organized theft of the Federal Reserve Bank, the absolute corruption of our government and the selling out of America to the rest of the world.

But what I really can't grasp, Missy.....are why so many Americans (in ALL parties) are apparently so deaf, dumb and blind, as to not recognize the very snake that's about to bite them.........and WORSE, not even care.

So..........I reached a point a few days ago, where I've decided not to waste any more time and effort arguing with these knuckleheads. Let 'em find out the hard way.

I'm going to devote most of my future time, continuing to prepare for what many of us know is coming. Oh, I'll still write a few letters now and then in the blog, although I won't waste anymore ink in the town paper or the "Boise 'Bama Booster" (Statesman).

Things are gonna get more than a little rough in America no matter WHO wins this fiasco, and even the media won't be able to get a hold on it. They'll be as "left out in the cold" as the millions of people they now deceive.

No Missy...............there just comes a time, when you have to do a personal focus on what you know is right and let the hordes of know-it-alls sink with the ship.

Truly, many who read this blog will smirk and laugh, but the day will come in this country, when they'll be awakened in the middle of the night, and suddenly.........it won't be funny anymore. And it won't even matter if the old "Bazookaman" knew what he was talking about or not.

But until this country IS taken back, I'm going to continue to vote my conscience, and I'm not HANDING anything over to anybody, beginning with this country.

I usually try to avoid Third Reich discussions, Godwin's Law and all, but since you brought it up: The National Socialist Party effectively quit being Socialist when Hitler assumed control, he was not a socialist, capitalist, or syndicalist, Nazi Germany had a mixed economy, and Hitler's personal economic philosophy was anti-Semitism. He'd tell capitalists - numerous still-successful corporations co-existed with Nazi rule well - that Marx was a Jew and Communism and Socialism Jewish plots to undermine the economy, then tell Socialists capitalism was a conspiracy of rich Jewish bankers - he'd tell everybody to blame economic problems on the most identifiable, urban group of non-Christians around.

Hitler didn't need redistributionist tax policies to fund the German state because they simply stole the wealth of the governments and provinces he invaded, as well as the private wealth of the non-Christians and homosexuals he detained and ultimately killed.

I'm not sure how you think you have the right not to be told homosexuality is normal. You still have the right to tell others it's abnormal, don't you? Who's trying to take that away from you, and how? Rush Limbaugh should have the right to say Colin Powell's commission as a general was a Republican favor but because you dislike "smut" on television someone else shouldn't be allowed to tell a dirty joke?

And it is fantastic the America of 50 years ago when African-Americans couldn't vote and people of two different races couldn't marry, when the government actively investigated and harassed people because they had different views on economic policies, is gone. Thank God, who I don't need a taxpayer-bought monument at my courthouse to worship, those days are behind us.

Neat! There are TWO of out here who are awake, anyway!

And Ex-Intern.....I wasn't referring to the ECONOMICS of the Third reich, I was referring to the loss of individual and human rights, and if you can't see what's happening in this country, you are in for a hard and rude awakening someplace down this road.

We live in a sick, corrupt society, and if YOUR side in particular has its way, we'll eventually be subjects (not citizens) under the U.N. flag.

.....Except for those of us who will have to be taken down by force, and there'll be a price paid in the exchange. Unlike Vietnam though, this time it'll be for a JUST cause.

"outtathere"........I appreciate the vigilance you obviously have. I suspect that Ex-Intern, like many others, was probably born in the 60's or 70's. If so, he won't have been fortunate enough to actually LIVE in America when things were better and more wholesome. Most of his knowledge may come from civics classes, and not off the streets. You've got to be an older dude, to actually be able to see this degeneration. I suspect if Ex-Intern had grown up and lived in the America I did, he'd probably be madder than I am right now!

I don't know the backgrounds of some of these guys, nor is it any of my business.

What I DO know is what I've SEEN for myself over the past 6 decades, and I'm telling you, America is turning into a pile of dog dung, and it is NOT the fault of the two major parties. It's the fault of the idiots (on both sides), who continue to put party ahead of country......continue to re-elect the same thieves.....and continue to expect different results.

Doing something "different" usually DOES bring "change." But change is only good when it's POSITIVE change. I would never change course on ANYTHING "just to be different." Having Obama as President is more of a fashion-trendy statement, than anything else. Forfeiture of freedoms and liberties is a hell of a price to pay to make a social statement.

There's too much at stake this time to be stylish.

But..........what the heck do I know? I'm just an old right wing, Constitution-following, religion/gun-clinging, combat vet radical who still sees Roy Rogers as a role model. One who thinks marriage is "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." I still believe the grass is something you walk on, coke is something you drink, and gun control means using both hands.

It's gotta be something in the water back there.

I'll ease up and share something with you, Ex-Intern. People who know me to any degree, know I've always been harder on the GOP than I am on you guys.

First off, I've come to EXPECT more from our side over the years, which is why I campaigned so hard for Ron Paul, and against McCain.

Secondly, we're not giving the American people much of an alternative...........

You see, I'm not real popular among several key "Republicans" ( and I use that term loosely) around Mountain Home, because I don't accept what we're doing.

As I told one of them the other day over coffee, "If we get beat, we'll have DESERVED it."

This didn't set well at first, until I explained what I meant. Whatever we think of the Democrats, they are at LEAST trying to put their best foot forward.

"WHAT??" came the reply?............"Well, think about it a minute" I said.........

"When you look at their lineup of Bloombergs, Pelosis, Feinsteins, Kennedys, Shumers, Conyers, Hillary and such.........Barack Obama probably IS the best they can muster, and they're at least playing the best card they have in this game.

But when WE sidestep some really good people and choose a RINO like McCain to represent US , what choice are we giving the voters? We can do a LOT better than McCain and you KNOW it!"..

"Yeah"......says he, shuffling his feet on the gravel........."But at least he's better than Obama."

"So....the lesser of two evils again, eh?".....I said "Man, don't you realize all this election comes down to, is ONE Democrat running against the OTHER? If it wasn't for Sarah, we wouldn't have a Republican of ANY kind on the ticket! We're almost HANDING them the White House on a silver tray."

I guess what it all boils down to, Ex-Intern, is the frustration I feel, when so much is at stake this time, and we don't have one of our stronger dogs in the fight, and it's taken a fiesty little Governor to bring a dis-enchanted base back to McCain's camp. A base he would NOT have had without her.

A MAJOR diffenrence (and it's been a costly one for us), between our party and yours, is that we will NOT necessarily back a candidate just because he has an (R) after his name. We know from the numbers and percentages for example, that most Ross Perot votes came from Republicans who were thinking "Country" over "party". It is WE who gave Clinton the White House.............his 43% would not have done it for him in a TWO man race.

Were it not for Palin's kick-butt attitude and Pro-gun values,....had McCain picked one of the monkeys he was looking at, this race would already be over, because there's a lot of us out here who would NOT have supported this ticket, as it was taking shape. It's a matter of principle and values...not a matter of any "party loyalty."

You guys tend to back your candidates no matter WHAT their record. It's all about "party."

Let me ask you something Ex-Intern...........just between us. Looking objectively, don't YOU wish YOU guys had someone else to vote for?

I mean, I'm the first to admit that McCain isn't the best WE can do. Even though Obama may well pull this thing off, I can't believe that all of you are happy about your candidate...........are you?

Nominating Hillary or John Edwards would've forced me to vote McCain, right up until he chose Palin, which would've stuck me with Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader.

PS, Ex-Intern....thanks for your comment about John McCain being a "tolerable Republican" I'm going to share that with a few people around here. You have just allowed me to prove my point about McCain being a RINO.

When somebody like Ex-Intern says something positive about McCain, it just proves what I've said all year to my "party peers" about McCain NOT being one of us.

THIS could not have come from a better source! Thanks!

In 2000 and up til the past few years - McCain won a lot of my respect when he called out slavery-profiteer Pat Robertson - someone who at the time benefitted financially from gold-mining interests in Liberia where slave labor, POWs from Liberia's civil war, were being used. Other conservatives and Republicans looked the other way on Robertson adopting anti-American values when it suited his investment portfolio. And the "liberal, deck-stacking media" called very few of them out on it.

Make sure you mention that when you tell people I found McCain tolerable - and then ask what policies Republicans are pursuing to end slavery-profiteering by U.S. business interests.

Yeah, in a lot of areas, there really doesn't seem to be a whole lot of enthusiam, does there.

I've talked with people all both sides, and many of them just want this to be over, and NOBODY I've talked to on either side likes the fact that the campaigns started so early and have gone on about a year and a half now, when their candidates SHOULD have been in D.C., doing the jobs we're paying them to do.

You've got a fellow in Georgia named Zell Miller, that I would sure support if HE would run.

Stripping good things from us? Micro-chipping, no honest news reporting?

Better be careful, Green Eyed Lady. These nut cases on the left will have you labeled as some Constitution-clinging, paranoid, right wing wacko.

Their minds are made up. Don't confuse them with the truth.

I'm 60, and really haven't understood anything since 1969 or so. Don't feel alone......ya gotta remember, we have only LIVED it FIRST HAND. That scarcely compares with these pinko lib professors who agenda-lecture our college kids.

You and I know NOTHING. Doesn't matter what we lived through or what we SAW for ourselves. "Professor Hooperdung" from Berkeley told the "young experts" out there all they needed to know in his civics discussion at the auditorium.

Your term "insanity" is totally correct, and you're liable to see a pronounced example of it 6 days from now.