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Obama truely hates the military

August 7, 2009 on 10:38 pm | In Mil Blog, Politics | No Comments

Tom Sends:

HERE IS HIS RESPONSE WHEN HE BACKED OFF FROM HIS DECISION TO LET
THE MILITARY PAY FOR THEIR WAR INJURIES.

WHAT AN EMPTY HEADED PERSON HE MUST BE….

“Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon
Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require
veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540
million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries
to military personnel received during their tours on active duty. The
President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the
opposition to his proposal.

“Look, it’s an all volunteer force,” Obama complained. “Nobody
made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the
risks.. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It
doesn’t compute..” “I thought these were people who were proud to
sacrifice for their country, “Obama continued. “I wasn’t asking for
blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in
its history, I’d have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to
try to help reduce the nation’s deficit. I guess I underestimated the
selfishness of some of my fellow Americans.”

Please pass this on to every one including every vet and their
families whom you know.”

I would ask who’s side this guy in on, but I already know. It’s not America.

Obama Raids Veteran Benefits

August 7, 2009 on 1:30 am | In Mil Blog, Politics | No Comments

TRICARE FOR LIFE’S FUTURE….
TRICARE For Life was instituted to correct the broken promise that military retirees would receive free healthcare coverage for life and it covers the Medicare co-pay. Now a heavy assault has begun on Veterans’/Retirees’
benefits to pay for other programs our President promised during the campaign. An it is a high priority of his administration. The one item of most interest to Retired Military is in Article 189. If approved by Congress
the first assault wave would hit in 2011 and would hit hard. It would initiate cost sharing to require retirees to pay the first $525 of medical cost and 50% of the next $4,725 for a first year cost of $2,888 per person. It would be indexed to increase with inflation. A reason given for this action (for PR effect) is “overuse” by Retiree s.

For those of you who are covered by TFL you will want to pay attention (Below) to what BG Bob Clements has surfaced about the future of TFL.
In any case, on page 189 of the Congressional Budget Office report, see the note below on how to get to that spot, there is a strong recommendation to eventually eliminate the program as it is too expensive. Just another move to slight those of us who dedicated much of our adult lives to the defense of our country. Heads-up from BG Bob Clements,USAF Ret(P38 Bob)
The following has been added to the Congressional Budget Office Web
Site www.cbo.gov/
a. Budget, Options, Volume 1: Health Care
(www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9925)
For those who have never opened one of these web sites from OMB :
1. double click on the above URL
2. click on PDF
3. click on the binoculars
4. do a search for TFL
Now here it is folks and I will guarantee if you sit around on your behind and do nothing about it as they bring these options forward this coming year, you will lose one of the best healthcare benefits that the Medicare eligible retired military have.It is short of the promises made that we fought so hard for back in the late 90s and early 2000s but it is
still the best healthcare program that anyone in the United States has, bar none.
People who are professionals always look for the channel of least resistance when it comes to cutting money out of the Federal and DOD budget. I can tell you this straight on, military retirees are one of those channels
of least resistance noted for sitting around, doing nothing, and waiting for ole Joe to do it for them. You had better wake up. Your medical benefits are prime target. If you lose them, you have nobody to blame but yourself country.
To show you how stupid these professionals can be at times just read the data on the noted sites closely. You will see that in spite of the MTFs (Military Treatment Facility) need to get patients back to keep their doctors busy and the hospitals from going to clinic status, these people from OMB would employ a means to keep retirees from using MTF facilities by
charging them a fee for services. How dumb can you get.
Even if you are an Obama fan, and believe that changeth cometh, TFL option from OMB will not go away. They need the money they spend on you for other programs for people who produce nothing but votes to keep their boss in office.

These people hate the military and will cut them to pieces any and every way possible

Letter to Obama

August 7, 2009 on 1:13 am | In Politics | 3 Comments

Regarding THIS….Senator Cornyn’s letter is below
The Truth About Health Care Insurance Reform..sort of

The full text
of Sen. Cornyn’s letter to President Obama is below–

Dear President Obama, I write to express my concern about a new White House program to monitor American citizens’ speech opposing your health care policies, and to seek your assurances that this program is being carried out in a manner consistent with the First Amendment and America’s tradition of free speech and public discourse.

Yesterday, in an official White House release entitled “Facts are Stubborn Things,” the White House Director of New Media, Macon Phillips, asserted that20there was “a lot of disinformation out there,” and encouraged citizens to report “fishy” speech opposing your health care policies to the White House. Phillips specifically targeted private, unpublished, even casual speech, writing that “rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.” Phillips wrote “If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

” I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed “fishy” or otherwise inimical to the White House’s political interests.
By requesting that citizens send “fishy” emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House. You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program. As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights.

I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward emails critical of his policies to the White House. I suspect that you would have been leading the charge in condemni ng such a program-and I would have been at your side denouncing such heavy-handed government action.

So I urge you to cease this program immediately. At the very least, I request that you detail to Congress and the public the protocols that your White House is following to purge the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and identities of citizens who are reported to have engaged in “fishy” speech. And I respectfully request an answer to the following:

* How do you intend to use the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and identities of citizens who are reported to have engaged in “fishy” speech?

* How do you intend to notify citizens who have been reported for “fishy” speech?

* What action do you intend to take against citizens who have been reported for engaging in “fishy” speech?

* Do your own past statements qualify as “disinformation”? For example, is it “disinformation” to note that in 2003 you said:”I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan”?

I look forward to your prompt response.

Sincerely, JOHN CORNYN

United States Senator
Texas

Okay …. everyone reading this be sure to smile. Urkel is probably taking your photo as we speak!

Immediate Action Drills

July 15, 2009 on 10:31 pm | In Politics | No Comments

In the military these things called “Immediate Action Drills” are used. At least they used to call them that. Examples include practicing doing what needs to be done to:

Clear a building.
React to an ambush
React to incoming
And so forth …

The reason for this is to ingrain in the Marine or Soldiers mind what to do in each forseeable situation. It prevents the need for thought in taking an immediate action. These drills become automatic.

I was able to capture a political “Immediate Action Drill” for politicians. In the photo you see a photographer, this one is with the Kansas Meadowlark. He is preparing to “shoot” the candidate and her family. The family is seen here reacting to the situation and performing a “Happy Family Pose”.

It prevents though and gives them a practices action to take. I just gotta think that they practice this drill in front of the mirror at home repeatedly.

Independence Day, 4 July, 2009 TEA Party.

July 4, 2009 on 5:25 pm | In Mil Blog, Politics | 6 Comments

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De oppresso liber!

July 3, 2009 on 6:28 pm | In Mil Blog, Politics | No Comments

Kansas Federalist Sends:
Kansas Federalist Commentary
By Father John Corapi

A Message for Independence Day

I have fond memories of the 4th of July going back to when I was probably only four or five years old. We remember the parades, the picnics or barbecues, and the happy gathering of families. During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the American colonies from Great Britain actually took place on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve the resolution of independence previously put forth by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. After debate and revision Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.

Of note is the letter John Adams, one of only two Founding Fathers who went on to become president, wrote to his wife Abigail:

“…This day ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.” (Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive. Massachusetts Historical Society)

Like so many of the Founding Fathers, Adams recognized that the day of deliverance came from the providential hand of almighty God. I am not sure about large numbers of duplicitous politicians and other so-called public servants today, whether elected or appointed.

Freedom is a great thing, and we do well to celebrate it on the 4th of July. That being said, it’s something rooted in truth, and apart from the truth there can be no authentic freedom.

“If you continue in my word [truth] you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:31-32)

An individual, a country, or a world that does not remain rooted in objective truth cannot ultimately live in freedom. If you are serious about your faith, my dear friends, I strongly recommend that you read Catechism #1730-1748 as we approach the wonderful celebration of Independence Day, or the 4th of July.

Some highlights of this reality:

1731: Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude [true happiness].

1733: The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes…

One of the most common errors of all time is to confuse freedom and license. Today, frequently under the specious pretext freedom, mankind acts in a manner that is really license. We are not morally free to do whatever we choose to do. Only when rooted in truth and acting in objective truth can we hope to be free. No one has the moral right to do evil. No one has the moral right to choose to take an innocent life or to engage in actions that are out of accord with right reason or any objective standards of morality we have ever known.

The inevitable consequence of abusing freedom is losing freedom. Soon, if we do not alter our present course, the United States will no longer be the home of the brave and the land of the free. Loss of personal freedoms, one at a time, is already well underway. One day we shall awake from our moral slumber and find that we have become slaves.

We must live in truth and act in truth if we are to remain free. Abuse it and I assure you we shall lose it! Wake up America! God is not a disinterested spectator. Let’s thank God for our freedom, but let’s not sit by idly while the forces of darkness divorce freedom from truth. For, as Jesus says, “The man who sins is the slave of sin.” (John 8:34)

I’ll leave you with the motto of the United States Army Special Forces on this 4th of July:

De oppresso liber! (To free the oppressed)

Indeed, Jesus came to set the captives free. Let’s do our part for our country and our world that we might all remain free in the glorious freedom of the children of God.

God Bless You.

Barack Obama’s Approval Plunges

July 1, 2009 on 3:15 pm | In Politics | 2 Comments

The one person who will do more to unite and motivate conservatives than any other is Barack Obama!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:27 PM

By: Jim Meyers
“The latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll shows that President Barack Obama for the first time has a negative approval index — more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve.

In an exclusive Newsmax interview, pollster Scott Rasmussen also disclosed that, if the economy does not improve over the next year, Obama’s numbers will deteriorate even further — and Democrats will suffer in 2010.”

Much more HERE

Veterans For A Strong America

June 30, 2009 on 10:07 pm | In Mil Blog, Politics, Uncategorized | No Comments

We are formed. We are official. We are a group of veterans, and family, and friends who will be working to return America to sanity.

The current group in office are not liberals, they are statists.

“stat⋅ism  /ˈsteɪtɪzəm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [stey-tiz-uhm] Show IPA
Use statism in a Sentence–noun 1. the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.”

We seek Republican, Democrat, and Independents who oppose that concept, and the reality.

We seek people who want a plan of action, and who are willing to work.

Our blog is located here

Stop by and join us.

Daniel Gilyeat, the Candidate

June 28, 2009 on 1:43 pm | In Mil Blog, Politics | 13 Comments

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Let the games begin! Over the weekend we are launching a support group to support good solid AMERICAN candidates. In the beginning we were planning to start with local elections, you know, dog catcher, school board, city council etc and get some experience and hopefully begin to have an effect.

Late last week we discovered that Daniel Gilyeat, was a declared candidate for the US Congress in the 3rd District. He is opposed by two other Republican candidates in the primary. They may be good people I don’t know. I know Danny. I support Danny.

The ultimate result of this campaign is a face off with Dennis Moore for a seat in the US Congress. Moore is a sly underhanded snake oil selling Johnson County lawyer who cloaks himself in the mask of “Blue Dog” Democrat. You know, one of those guys who pretend to be independent thinkers. His voting record clearly positions him as a Pelosi Poodle. He doesn’t go to the bathroom without Nancy’s consent.

A hot day in the park.

Rally Today

June 27, 2009 on 12:55 pm | In Politics | 15 Comments

Okay so I am getting a little more poiltical. Today in Olathe there is a rally. I am excited about going. Some of you may have heard about it.

More later and maybe photos too.