American or Republican? Time to decide.
I'm particularly talking to House Republicans. Are there any sane and reasonable moderate Republicans left in the House? The country only needs twenty (20) of you (technically 19, but 20 gives a one...
View ArticleVeterans Day, Neo-Nazi's and KKK, 'Patriotism'?
Day before Veterans Day 2012, Neo-Nazi's and KKK are going to save the country, coming to town to let us know, and at same time the oh so patriotic, some 2000, are waving flags and cheering on a parade...
View ArticleVeterans, Military Personal and Families Of: 'Gifts?'
Why do I keep saying this over and over, because it needs to be the reminder of a Nation that sent it's Military back into two more wars of choice, Afghanistan became when the country cheered with the...
View Article2012 Thanksgiving: A First for Fort Bragg in Years
The long occupation is far from over, after the main missions were abandoned years back with the first drum beats of war pointed at Iraq and almost full support for from this country.For the first time...
View ArticleWar Tax Mention Ten Plus Years Later?
Tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, instead while oil prices rose rapidly and the country told to go shopping!"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too —...
View ArticleWar Casualties in February - One
Out of all the American military in Afghanistan along with the NATO countries troops, and extremely sadly for his family and friends and the Navajo Nation, only one soldier died in the occupation...
View ArticleCBS 60min.: OIF & OEF Veteran Clay Hunt & Team Rubicon
“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.”—General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans AdministrationThe life and death of Clay Hunt
View ArticleVA Backlogs - Vietnam to Afghanistan/Iraq
"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb....
View ArticleCiC Obama $63.5 billion Increase For Veterans
"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb....
View ArticleThe Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
So we have many 'scandals' week to carry the news. Very loudly hyped by a group against any taxes, but boy do they like everything done, loudly whining, while the press from local to national follow...
View ArticleCommunion with god
The sunlight, the water, the air and the soil are sacramental. They are as eternal inasmuch as humans are able to conceive it.We are born of these elements, formed, filed smooth and burnished by them....
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Wednesday Street Prophets: August Skies, Reload...Free Love♫...
Oregon August Sky ©SequoyahBlu/©BlueJessamineWelcome to the Wednesday Coffee Hour here on Street Prophets. This is an open thread where we can hang out and talk about what’s going on in our worlds....
View ArticleVeterans' Administration Giving Bonuses to Ignore or Cover Up??
The country loves to play their hollow 'patriotism' when it comes to cheering on wars and using veterans, the very few ordered into that serve them, of as their pawns like them magnetic ribbons, but...
View ArticleI'm an introvert, and while I don't want to, I have to say goodby for a...
Tomorrow I'm getting dropped off in front of a homeless shelter. I'll be without a computer or much of my things.My only computer is an older tower model that I've upgraded and more than does a great...
View ArticleVeteran to Veteran
This was spontaneous tonight, but I had some thoughts for many people I know, and knew, that I wanted to share...To my veteran friends who want to also share their thanks to other veterans, post...
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'No Ceremony or Parade Can Fully Repay That Debt'
In the Presidential Proclamation -- Veterans Day, 2013: Nov. 9 2013 "As we pay tribute to our veterans, we are mindful that no ceremony or parade can fully repay that debt."* * * * * * * * * *"If...
View ArticleGreater Love hath No Man
A terrible, beautiful story from a place we've largely forgotten.Iraqi cop hugs suicide bomber, saves pilgrims from blastAn Iraqi policeman gave his own life on Wednesday in an attempt to protect...
View ArticleIn The Country That 'Talks the Talk' But Doesn't 'Walk the Walk'
That talk fed by the hired Representatives, especially on the Federal level, not doing what they were hired to do but leading the country in finding anything, speak and symbols, to show their...
View ArticleVeterans Non-Profits: Not Full Sacrifice By Those Served
Non Profits for veterans are needed, set up not to enrich those execs running, way to many aren't, like the re-active, not pro-active, National Veterans' Groups especially, but to help what the greater...
View ArticleSkin in The Game
I am slow to anger, but it really pisses me off when people prescribe for others some purportedly virtuous (or at least dutiful) behavior they’d never embrace in their own lives. In the financial...
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