A simple message about life
I was sitting at a stoplight yesterday, minding my own business, waiting on it to turn green.
A carload of young, loud Muslims, shouting anti-American slogans, stopped next to me.
The light changed, the Muslims shook their fists, hit the gas & darted off ahead of me.
Suddenly an 18-wheeler came speeding thru the intersection & ran directly over their car, crushing it completely. For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself, "Man, that could have been me!"
So, today, bright & early, I went out & got a job as a truck driver.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Worthy repeat, Ramey!
I don't enjoy the repeated reading because this rings so true for America, Sonny!
Wake up, America!
Sam
This is truly worth reading...and thinking about. Please read it
with an open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or
right; look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. Take the
three minutes to read this (took slightly longer for yours truly). Maybe he
is wrong, but what if he’s right?
David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have
covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League
Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in
three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar ,
Senegal ... He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a
B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD
in history, which he obtained in 1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from
1970 to 1976.
He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the
United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie
Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The
Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by
Harvard University Press.
Dr. David Kaiser
History Unfolding
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books
on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied
history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally
large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a
mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely
single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a
sharper focus..
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it
because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people
react to it.. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something
happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen
years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks
make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little
or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is
$2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom
or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is
three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this
past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms
unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a
government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.
Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing
our economy... Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history,
and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why
we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think
critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not
picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close
election (violently in California over a proposition that is so
controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one
man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade
ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected
judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then
mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system
into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free
fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of
collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire
government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I
know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its
length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at
war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the
same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your
children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything
about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big
as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real
radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about
him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have
heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian
defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh,
of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then
demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe
are more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word:
Change.. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I
am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has
never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will
divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign
the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed
coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning..
As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to
experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s
In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from
the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they
should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted,
shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way
onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read
it right now.
And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were
losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved
a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that
his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they
did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a
full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression.
Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by
person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children
of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his
name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required
to do so. No Jews of course.
How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to
the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the
military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children,
advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and
promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and
across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And
he did this all in the name of justice and .... . ... change. And the people
surely got what they voted for.
If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the
history books.
So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in
1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When
Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in
the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed
into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the
world came to regret that he was not listened to.
Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured
country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals,
laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter
time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up
its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children
against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of
intentions, of course.. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions,
I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence
tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what
history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can
hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what
is transpiring around me..
I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at
me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree,
perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and
tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our
vote in the next elections.
David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States
By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening
of America as to where we are headed.
Wake up, America!
Sam
This is truly worth reading...and thinking about. Please read it
with an open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or
right; look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. Take the
three minutes to read this (took slightly longer for yours truly). Maybe he
is wrong, but what if he’s right?
David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have
covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League
Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in
three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar ,
Senegal ... He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a
B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD
in history, which he obtained in 1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from
1970 to 1976.
He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the
United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie
Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The
Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by
Harvard University Press.
Dr. David Kaiser
History Unfolding
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books
on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied
history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally
large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a
mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely
single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a
sharper focus..
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it
because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people
react to it.. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something
happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen
years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks
make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little
or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is
$2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom
or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is
three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this
past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms
unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a
government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.
Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing
our economy... Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history,
and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why
we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think
critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not
picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close
election (violently in California over a proposition that is so
controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one
man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade
ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected
judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then
mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system
into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free
fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of
collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire
government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I
know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its
length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at
war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the
same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your
children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything
about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big
as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real
radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about
him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have
heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian
defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh,
of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then
demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe
are more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word:
Change.. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I
am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has
never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will
divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign
the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed
coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning..
As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to
experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s
In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from
the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they
should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted,
shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way
onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read
it right now.
And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were
losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved
a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that
his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they
did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a
full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression.
Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by
person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children
of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his
name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required
to do so. No Jews of course.
How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to
the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the
military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children,
advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and
promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and
across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And
he did this all in the name of justice and .... . ... change. And the people
surely got what they voted for.
If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the
history books.
So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in
1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When
Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in
the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed
into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the
world came to regret that he was not listened to.
Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured
country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals,
laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter
time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up
its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children
against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of
intentions, of course.. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions,
I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence
tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what
history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can
hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what
is transpiring around me..
I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at
me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree,
perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and
tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our
vote in the next elections.
David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States
By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening
of America as to where we are headed.
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