MORE THOUGHTS ON NAPKINS

More thoughts on napkins…

                        Is there not a dictionary in the entire Congress?  Do they not understand the meaning of “ethics”, “integrity” or “patriotism”?  Why is it that everything done in Congress has to be to enhance that person’s chances of getting re-elected, to elevate that person’s status in the party, or to demean a member of the opposite

party?  Why can’t something be done for the country, and the party be damned?

Is it too much to ask that members of Congress put country first?

            How is it that a former member of Congress can put together a bill of only 135 pages, and which would eliminate 75 THOUSAND pages of regulations?  The bill, as originally penned by John Linder and called THE FAIR TAX, is so

simple and FAIR that it boggles my mind why Congress never enacted this when it was first proposed?  Oh wait, the answer is coming to me…it greatly reduces the power of Congress to manipulate the tax code!

            This next little jot was written because the Defense Department is now

run by a man who would rubber-stamp just about anything the president suggested, including the reduction-in-forces that will weaken our already

bad military situation.  The United States used to be respected, and feared,

around the world…that is not the case anymore, and the fault can be laid right at the feet of the president.  Being morally strong is fine, but when danger approaches do you want to pray, or be able to defend yourself?

            It was in a Chinese restaurant when I penned this one.  The thought comes to me that America is debt to a country that, inevitably, is going to be our enemy, if they aren’t already.  What happens at that point when we owe our enemy this huge sum of money?  Do we just shrug our shoulders and say the heck with it?   Do we try to defeat them(a good idea) and then dismiss the debt?  Can we defeat them(probably not) without using nuclear weapons?  Would we, could we, be the instigator of a world nuclear war over what we owe to some other country?  My brain was awhirl with the thoughts…and then came the egg-drop soup.  

            We, the people, need a representative in Congress to sit in the gallery when Congress is in session, and whenever the member of Congress tells a

whopper, this person will stand up and yell “you’re a liar”.  If we could get that person to be authorized to say that, you’d see how quickly members of Congress would be checking their facts before making stupid utterances like they do now.

A prime example would have been when Harry Reid said that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for several years…that was a bald-faced lie, and Reid knew it when he said it…but nobody ever called him out on it.

            Eric Holder recently had a hearing in which he was reminded that he has been cited for contempt of Congress.  Louie Gohmert, of Texas said that being

held in contempt of Congress was apparently no big deal to the Attorney General, at which point Holder pointed to Gohmert and told him “you don’t want to go there”, which sounded like a threat to me.  Where does the AG come off threatening a member of Congress for speaking the truth?  Holder didn’t pay a

fine, didn’t spend a night in jail, didn’t even get a nasty look from anyone, so

what was the consequence?

            The members of Congress, the secretaries of the various armed forces and many others who are addressed as “the honorable” do NOT deserve that

title.  In my opinion there are very few, perhaps a dozen, that could be called honorable, and the rest of them are just hangers-on, political whores, and lackeys.  There is nothing honorable about the way this government treats the members of the armed forces…the very people they will depend on to defend them.  A person that has never served in the armed forces should not be allowed to be a secretary for a service.

            The recent shooting at Fort Hood is a crime.  It was murder, no matter what the reason.  The linking of the shooter to post-traumatic stress syndrome

or PTSD is also a crime.  That particular soldier was not in combat, as far as I know, and the ones that DO have PTSD are being treated, or should be.  As long as I am on the subject of Fort Hood, for the president to give lip-service to the soldiers, and then go to a fund-raising event is also a crime. 

            In the run-up to our entering WW2 we were like a 2-stroke motorcycle engine…but once we were IN the war, America changed into a 16-cylinder, 500 horsepower engine, revved up and running at 100 miles per hour.  We did it back then because America was in danger…well, folks, that’s exactly the situation today, but this time the danger is home-grown, but it’s just as perilous.  If we could do it then, can’t we do it now?  Can’t we ramp up the engine of America and get back on top?

            A man wearing a helmet defending his country should make more money than a man with a helmet defending a football, don’t you agree?

            That finishes up the napkin-notes, but there’s more to be found on my

radio show…www.AirHumanityRadio.net.      

             

Bits and pieces

Bits and pieces

The president should be called the conniver-in-chief for all the crap that he's pulled.  The American public, at least 51% of it put this person into the White House…not once, but twice!  Doesn’t anyone know that old saying,

“fool me once, shame on you…fool me twice, shame on me.”   Former president, Jimmy Carter recently said another thing that makes me think that he’s gone round the bend.  In an interview on April 3^rd, he was heard to say “I think it would be inappropriate for the United States to try to block someone that Iran wanted to choose.”, when the issue of Iran’s potential ambassador to the UN came up.  It turns out that the candidate may have been one of the hostage-takers when Iran

stormed the American embassy in 1979.  Are you thinking, as I am, that our government has become wussified to the point of causing regurgitation?

            April 4^th, Brianna Ehley, writing in the Fiscal Times, dropped this bomb…

The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.   In a special “management alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.   The alert was just the latest example of the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside contractors.   How in the world do you lose $6 billion and not have a clue as to where it went?

            When I went to school, way back in the dark ages, we had a time during the day when we could catch up on our studies, or anything else.  Some of the smarter ones than me did their homework.  Now, having said that, how does a  school teacher presume to have the authority to tell a student, who is reading a bible during his “free time”, that bibles belong in church, not in school.  A teacher

at Highview Elementary School in Dearborn Heights took it upon herself to do just that.  To add to the situation, the boy’s mother says the school has been excessively placing her son in timeout and denying him lunch.  Here’s a thought; is it possible that the teacher was a Muslim?  Dearborn-istan

has a very large Muslim population.

            Back in October last year, 50 members of Congress told the president that they would not ratify the UN Arms Treaty.  What happened, because the treaty was approved, I believe.  This is part of an overall gun-control plan, and as I’ve said many times…it has nothing to do with guns, and all about control.  In any

country that has a tyrant for a leader, it cannot have an armed populace.  The

2^nd Amendment is what protects us…or used to.   Those opposed to guns will

say that the 2^nd amendment is only for certain types of guns, and only for a well-organized militia…but that simply isn’t the case.

            Europe, soon-to-be Eurabia, is caving in to Muslims in little pieces, but the total transformation should be completed by about 2030, according to a newspaper story from the UK.  Britain has caved in probably more than other countries, so it was no surprise to find out that Birmingham Metropolitan College

Is now allowing face-veils to be worn by Muslim students.  Another school in the UK first caved in and refused to serve any foods that were made with pork.  Then, just recently, they reversed that decision.  Prime Minister David Cameron, once a staunch supporter of Islam in the UK, is now having 2^nd thoughts.Nevertheless, Muslims expect to have Eurabia in place in about 16 years, due to their rise in population.

            California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey are the

worst states when it comes to solvency.  I wonder why that is?  Maybe it’s because they are suffering from what I call “the good-times syndrome”?  That is,

they thought the good times would never end…but they did, and now these are states that are close to being insolvent.  Only the federal government can think it

can dig itself out of a hole by digging that hole deeper, and I’m talking about them just up and printing more money.  There…that’ll fix it.  In the meantime, the economy sucks, we’re hollowing-out the armed forces, we’re trillions in debt, but the stupid people in the government keep on handing out money to people that

just plain don’t like us.  Oh, where is Milton Friedman when you really need him?

            As an example of wasted money, here’s this from Senator Coburn’s

annual Wastebook for 2012.  How about Moroccan pottery classes to the tune of

$27 million, or building robot squirrels $325 thousand?  There’s lots more, and the 2013 book isn’t available yet, as far as I know.  We are $17 trillion in debt,

with no good chance of ever getting out of that hole…but we’ll keep digging because the Congress can’t control spending right now.  Did you know that the

website for Obamacare cost $319 million…and doesn’t work all that well?  If you

buy anything from eBay or Amazon, there is a clear path for you to obtain your

purchase…not so with Obamacare.  Do you like pizza?  How about one that was

printed on a 3-D printer?  The feds paid right at $125 thousand to find out about that.

            America has been on a food binge for years and years.  That would be one explanation why we, as a population, are getting fatter every year.  Seats on airplanes and in movie theatres have been “enlarged” to handle the bigger rear-ends that get plopped into them.  Here’s something you might want to think about…Russia buys, or used to buy, a lot of wheat from us.  We pay them to

get our astronauts up to the International Space Station.  Why don’t we charge them the same amount for the wheat that they charge us for the ride?  In fact,

we probably feed a pretty good portion of the world, don’t we?   Should you

come down with diabetes or something else, not to worry because ObamaCare will cover them when you find work and sign up, or, when Iceland becomes a tropical paradise.

            When Jay Leno was still on TV, he used to do some interviews with people that he’d meet on the street…and the answers they gave, to the questions he’d ask, would make me wonder about the future of this country.

If the questions were about anything to do with the running of the country,

they didn’t have a clue…but ask them about sports, movies, who-just-got-married to-what-other-celebrity, and they were right there with the answer.  Our kids

are being dumbed down, and it’s deliberate.  The people that might pose a

military, or economical, threat in the future are raising a generation of kids

that will most likely beat us six ways from Sunday.

            Well, that cleaned up a bunch of napkins.

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

FOR THE GREATER GOOD.   That argument has been used down through the centuries for all sorts of things, and most of them are bad.   When the individual becomes nothing more than a cipher, that is the beginning of the end of society.   In our own government, there are many examples of where a person is unknown except for a number...Social Security, the IRS, even at the checkout counter of a supermarket sometimes.   Eventually, if the de-personalization is allowed to continue, I could see a barcode being issued, maybe even tattooed on the body somewhere.  Maybe a microchip would be implanted under the skin in a place where it could be scanned easily.  That is scary to think about it, but when you know that governments, including ours, are thinking along those lines it makes you wonder, doesn't it?   Where do you go from there?

            Any religion worth its salt modifies itself, makes itself relevant to the times, so that members can see how it applies to modern life.  One religion, and I prefer to call it a cult, doesn’t see it that way.   They are not interested in the greater good.  They are not interested in modifying anything.  They are not interested in embracing anything new.   Islam is almost 1400 years old and they haven’t changed a word in their holy book, the Quran.   A pedophiliac warlord, saying he is the messenger of God, declares war on the rest of the world.  Anyone that isn’t

a Muslim is an infidel and the Quran says to kill them.

            There is no such thing as the greater good in Islam.  No matter what they tell you, so long as it furthers the cause of Islam, it’s permitted, and that includes lying to your face.  To a Muslim, a true Muslim, the greater good is the end result of whatever mayhem and violence they can do, and the people that get in the way…well it’s just too bad for them.  Take, for instance, this business of us giving up rights to the internet.   This is from Act For America, March 25 by Brigitte Gabriel, and she says…Once again President Obama is putting you and your family at risk by giving power to the United Nations (UN) to control the Internet and muzzle YOUR freedom of speech, putting you at a risk of legal action just for expressing YOUR view on the Internet!

            If you’re a politician in Washington, and you want to bury bad news, you release an announcement late on Friday afternoon.   On Friday, March 14th, at 3:30pm, the Obama administration announced that America was surrendering control to the UN over key aspects of the Internet (control that America had because we built it in the first place).   Unfortunately, the largest voting bloc in the UN is the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a Saudi-dominated bloc of 57 nations that has waged an aggressive campaign against free speech, freedom of the press and free expression.   For an American president to betray the American public, our founding fathers, our Constitution, and throw our freedom of speech at the feet of tyrants to decide what we can and cannot say under the threat of a law suit for hate crime is unconscionable – shameful – reckless and stretches the boundaries of betrayal.

Our founding fathers are turning in their graves!  They were a bunch of very intelligent men, dividing up the power in the government.  They could not, however, envision a man so incompetent, yet so daring, coupled with a legislature so blasé about the usurpation of power.  If we want something for the greater good of the country, we are going to have to get Congress to do their job and impeach, indict, and incarcerate the president.  At this point I am truly unsure of what our military will do when faced with a possible declaration of martial law.  The armed forces have been purged of a lot of high-echelon officers, many on trumped-up charges.  Maybe it is finally time to do what I’ve been suggesting, and that is to stick your head out the window and yell “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”  When did this country get cranial-rectal inversion?  

If you or I were involved in something that might be illegal, and the court issued a subpoena for you to produce something, and you didn’t…what do you think would happen?  That’s right, the court would issue a bench warrant, and you either produce what they asked for, or you go to jail and think about it.   Why are government employees not held to the same standards, and laws?  It seems to me that summonses and subpoenas mean nothing.  The recipients just ignore them and nothing happens to them.  Oh, they might get suspended from their job, with pay…and to me, that’s a vacation!

Here’s something you might want to think about…you can clasp your hands in prayer and ask that you be spared from whatever human peril threatens you and your family, or you can clasp your hands in the “teacup” position around the butt of a large-bore pistol or revolver.  I guarantee you that the latter position

will reap more benefits for you and your family than will prayer.  Prayer is wonderful, don’t get me wrong, but maybe your prayer is on a long list and the Almighty will get to you when he can.  In the meantime, while you’re potentially facing death, shoot that SOB!

Larry Usoff, US Navy Retired

Duty.  Honor.  Country.

           

A COLLECTION OF RANDOM THOUGHTS

A collection of random thoughts written on restaurant napkins.

            The president should never stand in front of an American flag.  He should stand in front of a Kenyan flag.  He should be impeached, indicted, incarcerated.  I heard an American veteran of the Afghan war say that "durka durka" is a generic cuss-word for Muslims.  To me, just the word Muslim is a dirty word.   David Brenner died recently, and for all his wit and humor, he pretty much remained the man-in-the-street, and for that I thank him.  Someone explain to me how the top "spy" in the CIA, the post very much involved with the safety of this country, turns out to be a Muslim AND is not immediately fired?   "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.", that's Ralph Waldo Emerson, a guy noted for HIS common sense.   Common sense works, folks, you just have to try it, and apply it.

            Duty.  Honor.  Courage.  Do you really need to know more about our armed forces than that?  Consider what this administration has done, and is doing, to that institution...decimating it physically, financially, and morally.  The armed forces say "leave no one behind", and what does the administration say?  "What difference does it make?"   We're dishonoring our military every day, and those are the very people we'll call on when trouble hits...and it will, somewhere, sometime.   There's so many Muslims in top-echelon posts in our government that I'm really surprised that they haven't made Muslim holidays federal holidays, but I'm sure it's coming.   It has gotten so bad that when the president is on the TV, I mute it and I yell that he's a liar, a Kenyan, and a fool.  He can't hear me but I'll bet everyone in the neighborhood can.

            To arms, to arms...the ATF is coming!  Actually, it's not just the ATF, it's the IRS, the DOJ and any other armed agency they can throw in the mix.  This administration is SO anti-gun you would not believe the stunts they are pulling.  The Constitution?  Nah, that doesn't count anymore.  The Bill of Rights?  To the lefties, that's just so much toilet tissue.  Now, when I mention anti-gun people, or gun-control people, you MUST remember that it's not really about the guns.  It's about our freedom.  We're losing bits of it every day and most of us don't know and don't care that it's happening.   So long as the government can give us "freebies" the

51% that elected the current president, twice, is thrilled and they don't want to upset the applecart, or whatever passes for that these days.   We are rapidly nearing the point where there will be more people recieving money from the government, then there are people to pay for it.

            "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.", and that's from Abraham Lincoln.  You remember him, the guy that freed the slaves, the guy that said a house divided against itself cannot stand, and that's a reference to the "civil" war or The War Between The States, which I think is the preferred term now.  Anyhow, Congress is, according to me, now comprised of about half-a-dozen statesmen, maybe a dozen patriots, and the rest are wusses.   Congress has allowed, even condoned the actions of the president, and a couple presidents prior to this one, to flout the Constitution by skipping the legislative branch and process.   The president(s) blithely go ahead and write laws(the job of Congress), completely ignore the will of the people, jump into wars without consulting Congress, and a myriad of other just-as-devious things.

When will the American people wake up, smell the rottenness emanating from Congress and Washington in general, and do something about it?

            Oh...I've run out of napkins

Larry Usoff, U.S Navy. ret.

THE WUSSIFICATION OF AMERICA

The Wussification Of America by Larry Usoff           

The wussification of America...it's well underway and it's dangerous for the future of this country.  My father gave me a pocketknife when I was about 7 or 8, and told me that a gentleman always had a pocketknife, to clean his fingernails if necessary.  I used that knife for years and years, and kept my fingernails clean, along with cutting string, whittling things that never turned out like I wanted, and, once, giving me a little extra smack-power when I had it in my rolled-up fist.  Not once, in all the years that I had that knife, did I ever think of using it as a weapon...not once.  I still carry a pocket knife.

            Sports was never my thing, but it certainly does generate a lot of interest among men, and in the context of this conversation, it's a good thing.  I'd prefer that there was more interest in things like math and science, but that's a whole other story.  Sports figures today are taking the place of the gladiators of the past.  They are what we want to be, and we live through them vicariously.  Perhaps we should look at the spectators rather than the gladiators, or sports figures.  The majority of the people do not participate except by watching, and except for a shout now and then, there's little physical activity on our part.   Special olympics are of particular interest to me because it represents a fighting spirit in people, people that, according to some, should only be vegetables.

            If you've never been to a special olympics, you should go.  The contestants are there to win, and they try very, very hard.  That fighting spirit that these folks show is being diminished, systematically, in normal athletes.  There are games without scores, because the idea that everyone gets a chance to play, rather than the idea of winning, is primary.  While I don't advocate playing sports without the proper gear, it does seem that saying that tackling in football should be eliminated due

to the amount of injuries.  Sports, by their nature, are pretty much rough-and-tumble and injuries are going to happen.  Perhaps a shorter professional sports-life is the answer.  A professional athlete might want to consider a 10 year, or shorter, time in the game.

            The military has openly gay men and women serving and right now I'm going to say that I've served with gay men, and never had a problem with them.  I knew they were gay, they knew I was straight, and that was that.  Women in the military...well, that's another burr under my saddle.  There's no getting around the fact that women cannot perform physical tasks as well as men.  In areas where women might be captured, they may, and probably will, suffer torture, sexual attacks, and even death.  And before you say anything, yes, men are captured, tortured and killed also...but women are considered prizes because the enemy can figure that our men will try even harder to set them free.   If there is no chance of close combat, yes, let the women serve.

            With the openly gay service personnel, has come another quirk.  There are elements of the military that I believe have been asked if, should the need arise, would they shoot fellow Americans, on American soil?   The patriots, as I term them, have said no, and they are quietly discharged, brought up on phony charges, and outright forced out of their careers.   Another element, and this one I'm really strong on, is Muslims serving in the armed forces.  Because I've done some studying of the Quran it strikes me that A TRUE MUSLIM can never have allegiance to anything or anyone, but Islam, Mohammed and Allah.   The current administration is, in my opinion, a strong supporter of Islam, and that's bad for America...and the world.  Muslims practice taqiyya, which is lying to infidels so long as it furthers the cause of

Islam.   We cannot simply turn our backs on the facts, and continue to wussify Americans.

            War, by definition, is a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.   In war, people are hurt and killed.   I understand that, but what I don't understand is the wussified rules of engagement that our people face, and which places them at a great disadvantage.   I don't understand the wussification of our country by cutting the armed forces down to the point where it places our nation and our people, in great jeopardy.   This wussification started a long time ago, but the current administration has made it into a science almost.   We must regain our fighting spirit.   We have to find the minutemen inside of us, and prepare for whatever is coming...which I think is right around the corner, but I could be wrong.

            Larry Usoff, US Navy Retired

            Duty.  Honor.  Country.

            www.AirHumanityRadio.net

           

I CRY FOR AMERICA!

            I CRY FOR AMERICA! These days it's becoming easier and easier for me to cry...and I suppose some folks might look at that as a sign of weakness, but it's not.  I cry for my beloved country, for the America in which I grew up, and for which I was willing to lay down my life should that need arise.   It came as a surprise to me that, in many schools across the country, elementary and high schools, the history of this country is not taught, or if it is, the truth has been perverted and in some places it is gone completely.   If you know me at all, whether personally, or through whatever medium we meet, you know that the word patriot has a strong meaning for me, and sad to say, it does not have that same meaning for more people than not.  For a reason that I truly do not understand, we are allowing, and in some cases, helping the government to become everything to us, as one person told me the government wants to control us from womb to tomb.  That's not the America in which I grew up, and it's certainly not the America I want for my children and grandchildren to know.

            It's simply beyond my understanding that this country, the one that saved the world...twice, is willing to see it become a second-rate, maybe even a third-rate power, with little or no influence in the world.  It certainly doesn't help that we have a weak government, determined to decimate the armed forces to the level where, should a situation arise, we may not be able to defend our own country.   Our country used to be able to stave off any thoughts of an enemy invasion because we were separated by an ocean on either end.   That advantage is gone, giving us a possible 30 minutes if one of the potential enemies launches an intercontinental ballistic missile.  Maybe they'll just bring the parts for a hydrogen or atomic bomb into the country in a suitcase, or shipped-in in one of the hundreds of crates unloaded at many of our ports.  The ports are under-staffed when it comes to security...at the same time we have an unemployment problem.

            That unemployment problem also affects our manufacturing facilities, and I have to admit that part of that is because robotics have taken over a lot of the jobs.  Nevertheless, a person that wants to earn a living wage can find

employment in several fields, mostly dealing with security.  As an example, we recently had a successful attack made on a power station and it was not a random act.  It was carried out by people who knew what they were doing, and I suspect that it was a trial run for something larger to come later.  Security at these power stations is going to have to be beefed up and I cannot think of better people to do this than our veterans.  They are familiar with weapons, they know organization and they are disciplined...and they are loyal.  That, loyalty, seems to be a disappearing characteristic in public figures.  If the sight of armed security personnel might disturb you, think about what they may

be keeping from happening.

            What is happening in our schools?  Does any student today, in the middle grades all the way through college, know how to do long division...without a calculator?   Is handwriting, which is called cursive writing, on the way out because the teachers cannot write legibly enough to teach it?  When I went to school we learned something that was called civics.  We learned what, where, and sometimes how, a country functioned.  We learned history about our country and others because the world was then becoming intertwined.   America was the place that most of the rest of the world wanted to be like.  No president in my memory ever apologized for America...not when we saved the rest of the world from being crushed under a foreign heel.   In our history we have had some dark chapters, and we have acknowledged them...but we cannot be continuously apologizing for 200 year old crimes. 

            The person who is the president now should never have been elected, much less re-elected.  He is an incompetent charlatan.  Had Romney been elected I believe we would be on the road to recovery and the Russians would not be giving us, and the rest of the world, the one-finger salute.  How many people now would like to take back their vote and bring this country up from the depths to which it’s been brought?  I wish it were so, but it isn’t and we have to console ourselves with a potential impeachment of the incompetent.

            America I cry for you.  I cry for my children, and their children, because ignorance and apathy are exhibited all over the country, and those ignorant and apathetic people make no excuses for being that way.  Goodbye America, I have loved you all my life.

“WHAT THE BLEEP IS GOING ON?”

“What the bleep is going on?”

From time to time, on my radio show, people send me stuff to write about.  One of the most common questions is why doesn't the Congress do what it's supposed to do?  A few topics that are suggested to look into are: voter fraud, which seems to have been swept under the rug; impeaching the president and this one, which really surprised me...re-instituting the draft.  I don't know about all the people in the US of A, but from what my mail says, there's a heck of a lot of them that are just absolutely fed up with the way the country is moving.   The downward spiral we're on can only have one ending, and that would be with America becoming a second, or third-rate, power.   Remember the movie "Network" and the scene where Peter Finch tells his audience to go to the window and tell the world that "you're mad as hell and you're not going to take it anymore"?  That's about where we are now, folks.

            Let's look at these suggested topics and see what we can discover.  Voter fraud is always a hot topic when the numbers seem to be skewed way out of proportion, which they were in the 2012 presidential election.  But, why hasn't anything been done, you may ask?  Here then, for your consideration, is a legal reason behind the inactivity in this area.  Way back in 1982 the Republican National Committee sued the Democratic National Committee over voter fraud.  The judge eventually decided that the RNC could NOT sue the DNC about voter fraud.  The case was brought up on appeal in 2012, and denied.  That, in a nutshell, is why voter fraud goes on and Republicans cannot do anything about it.  This is simplification of the case, but that's it.

            Impeachment...now there's a topic we can sink our teeth in, right?  Maybe not.  There's an awful lot of paperwork involved, much political posturing and postulating and in the end, what have you got?  The documents covering impeachment of a president may cite "high crimes and misdemeanors" as the reason for the impeachment, but what exactly does that phrase mean?  To the best of my, or anyone's, knowledge, it has never been defined exactly.  That's not to say that it cannot be done because it's been done twice before.  So, once the House of Representatives decides to go ahead with impeachment they send the paperwork to the Senate and, as things stand now, that's where it will die a quick death.

            With the recent suggestion of a draw-down of our military, it would seem to be counter-productive to be talking about reinstituting the draft, huh?  My personal opinion is that we need a larger military and a smaller government, and judging by the mail I get, a lot of people agree.  If the question were put into a national referendum, what do you think the majority would say?  Since I'm a conservative and people writing me are, probably, like-minded, my views are understandably in the minority because of the results of the last election.   Still, the American people do not deserve to be treated like sheep even though they act that way.  Strong voices should be heard because we need to survive as a nation.  The rest of the world looks to us for guidance and lately we've screwed up.