I wonder how the National Police budget compares to the USArmy's with Hagel's proposed cuts?

Homeland Security National Police force vs. US Army budget?  $/man for each.  How big do these non-reps in Washington want the police to be?

I hope somebody can find this out.  The national police is a new and much smaller, though well equipped force.

SamKat

Patriotism, Texas & Chris Kyle ... Thx Paul C!

QUITE A STORY AND QUITE A REMARK IN THE LAST LINE.

 

 

From a friend in Texas :

 

Patriotism, Texas , and Chris Kyle:

 

I just wanted to share with you all that out of a horrible tragedy we were blessed by so many people. Chris was Derek's teammate through 10 years of training and battle. They both suffer/suffered from PTSD to some extent and took great care of each other because of it. 2006 in Ramadi was horrible for young men that never had any more aggressive physical contact with another human than on a Texas football field. They lost many friends. Chris became the armed services number #1 sniper of all time. Not something he was happy about, other than the fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American lives. Three years ago, his wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams as he had a huge bounty on his head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The American Sniper." 100% of the proceeds from the book went to two of the SEAL families who had lost their sons in Iraq . That was the guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas to train military, police, and I think firemen as far as protecting themselves in difficult situations. He also formed a foundation to work with military people suffering from PTSD. Chris was a giver not a taker.

He along with a friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered trying to help a young man that had served six months in Iraq and claiming to have PTSD.

Now I need to tell you about all of the blessings. Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL and their family from any airport they flew into free of charge. The employees donated buddy passes and one lady worked for four days without much of a break to see that it happened. Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.

The Marriott Hotel reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the hotel for only SEALs and family. The Midlothian, TX. Police Department paid the $45 a night for each room. I would guess there were about 200 people staying at the hotel … 100 of them SEALs. Two large buses were chartered (an unknown donor paid the bill) to transport people to the different events and they also had a few rental cars (donated). The police and secret service were on duty 24 hours during the stay at our hotel.

At the house the Texas DPS parked a large motor home in front to block the view from reporters.

It remained there the entire five days for the SEALs to congregate in and to use the restroom so as not to have to go in the house. Taya, their two small children and both sets of parents were staying in the home. Only a hand full of SEALs went into the home as they had different duties and meetings were held sometimes on a hourly basis. It was a huge coordination of many different events and security. Derek was assigned to be a pall bearer, to escort Chris' body when it was transferred from Midlothian Funeral Home to Arlington Funeral Home and to be with Taya.

Taya seldom came out of her bedroom. The home was full with people from the church and other family members that would come each day to help. I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris' mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents, the other man murdered with Chris. A tough job.

***George W Bush and his wife Laura met and talked to everyone. The Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite a while. They had prayer with us all. You can tell when people are sincere and caring.

***Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people all day long including the 200 SEALs and their families. The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the house and fed all once again. Food was plentiful and all were taken care of.

The family’s church kept those inside the house well fed.

***Jerry Jones, the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and him was just making sure everyone was taken care of. Class! He donated use of Cowboy Stadium for the services as it was determined that so many wanted to attend. The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am. Every car, bus, and motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police. I am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a security risk, I don't know.

We willing obliged. No purses into the stadium!

We were taken to The Legends room high up and a large buffet was available.

That was for about 300 people.

We were growing.

A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and police, and Sarah Palin and her husband attended. She looked nice. This was a very formal military service. The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked. We heard that about 10,000 people had come to attend also. They were seated in the stadium seats behind us.

It was a beautiful and emotional service.

Bagpipe and drum corps were wonderful and the A & M men’s choir stood through the entire service and sang right at the end.

We were all in tears.

The next day was the 200-mile procession from Midlothian to Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were out. We had dozens of police motorcycles riders, freedom riders, five chartered buses, and lots of cars. You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it was huge. Two helicopters circled the procession with snipers sitting at the side doors for protection. It was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas . People were everywhere. The entire route was shut down ahead of us and people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way. Firemen down on one knee, police officers holding their hats over their hearts, children waving flags, veterans saluting as we went by. Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from their tall ladders. People all along the entire 200 miles standing in the cold weather.

It was so heartwarming.

Taya rode in the hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with us. I was so grateful to have that time with him.

The service was at Texas National Cemetery .

Very few are buried there and you have to apply to get in.

It is for people from Civil War, Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo, and all the historical people of Texas . It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.

*Each SEAL put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket one at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow. Derek was the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was caressing it as he did it.

Another tearful moment.

**After the service, Rick Perry and his wife Anita Perry, invited us to the governor's mansion. She stood at the door and greeted each of us individually and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas . She was a sincere, compassionate, and gracious hostess. We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden for beverages and BBQ. So many of the team guys said that after they get out they are moving to Texas . They remarked that they had never felt so much love and hospitality. The charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights. Derek just now called and after a 20 hour flight he is back in his spot, in a dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting America .

We just wanted to share with you the events of a quite an emotional, but blessed week.

 

And to this day Barack Hussein Obama, has NEVER acknowledged Chris Kyle...see link below.

 

 

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/12/the-silence-is-deafening-mr-president-obama-has-yet-to-acknowledge-death-of-legendary-seal-sniper-chris-kyle/

Shameful history of USA but Clintons will never admit shame

>NEXT UP  FOR THE DEM's TO BE PREZ... check out her husband's military  career!!!
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>Oh!  You  didn't know he had a military career?
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>Bill &  Hillary got about $12 million for their to-be written  memoirs.
>Here's some  help for them since their memories are getting old.
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>BILL
        CLINTONS MILITARY CAREER
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>Bill  Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964,
>accepting  all contractual conditions of registering for the
draft.
>Selective  Service Number is 326 46 228.
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>Bill  Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.
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>Bill  Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.
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>Bill  Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28,  1969.
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>Bill  Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the  military.
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>Bill  Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United  States
>Army  Reserves on August 07, 1969,  under authority
>of COL. E.  Holmes.
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>Clinton  signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.
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>Bill  Clinton fails to report to his duty station at
>the  University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.
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>Bill  Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969,
>as  enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by
>Colonel E.  Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and
>subject to  arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)  (a) -
>registrant  who has failed to report...
>remain  liable for induction.
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>Bill  Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311,
>drawn  December 1, 1969,but anyone who has
>already  been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!
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>Bill  Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive
>from  justice under Public Law 90-40.
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>Bill  Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General
>(1976),  while a fugitive from justice.
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>Bill  Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977,
>from President Carter .
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>Bill  Clinton becomes the FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON
>ever to  serve as President of the United States.
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>All these  facts come from Freedom of Information requests,
>public  laws, and various books that have been published,
>and have not been refuted by Clinton .
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>After the  1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton
>promised  that those responsible would be hunted down and  punished.
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>After the  1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia ,which killed five U.S.
>military  personnel,
>Clinton  promised that those responsible would be hunted down and  punished.
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>After the  1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia ,
>which  killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel,
>Clinton  promised that those responsible would be hunted down and  punished.
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>After the  1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa ,
>which  killed 224 and injured 5,000,
>Clinton  promised that those responsible would be hunted down and  punished.
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>After the  2000 bombing of the USS Cole,
>which  killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors,
>Clinton  promised that those responsible be hunted down and  punished.
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>Maybe if  Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000  people
>in New York  and Washington , DC , who are now dead
>would be  alive today.
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>THINK
        ABOUT IT!
>It is a  strange turn of events.
>Hillary  gets $8 Million for her forthcoming memoir.
>Bill gets  about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be written.
>This from  two people who spent 8 years being unable to recall
>anything  about past events while under oath.
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>Sincerely,
>Cdr.  Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret)
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>PS.
>Please forward this to as
        many people as you can!
>We don't  want this woman to even THINK of
>running for  President! 
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Do you know this guy, Mezvinsky? Thx Nita!

Do You Know Edward Mezvinsky?   He is Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937.   Then you’ll probably say, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?”   Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.   He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.  He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.  He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.  Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.  In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.  In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.  Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.  He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.  After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.  To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.  About now you are saying, “So what!”  Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.   That’s right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton's father-in law.  Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment.  Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media?  If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush's, or better yet, Sarah Palin's daughter's father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline, and every detail would be reported over and over.  And yet liberals say there are no double standards in political reporting.    And people are already talking about Hillary as our next President!   And then there is possibly Chelsea for president in our future!  The cycle never ends!  Lying and corruption seem to make Democrat candidates more popular.   When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.                     ~~Thomas Jefferson    WAKE UP AMERICA!

Susan Rice still lies on Benghazi Sunday

Susan Rice: No Regrets About My Benghazi Comments

Sunday, 23 Feb 2014 01:13 PM

By Greg Richter

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Making her first Sunday morning appearance since the Sunday after the 2012 Benghazi attacks, National Security Adviser Susan Rice says she has no regrets on her words that day which have drawn scrutiny ever since.

"Because what I said to you that morning and what I did every day since is to share the best information that we had at the time," Rice told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory.

Rice, then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, appeared on all five Sunday morning news shows, blaming the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on an anti-Muslim video produced in the United States.

She admitted to Gregory on Sunday that not all of the information she shared in 2012 turned out to be 100 percent correct.

"But the notion that somehow I or anybody else in the administration misled the American people is patently false," she said. "And I think that's been amply demonstrated."

Since then, critics of the White House policy in Libya, have stressed that the attacks, which left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead, were not the result of a spontaneous protest sparked by the video, but were pre-planned by an al-Qaida-linked group.

"The information I provided, which I explained to you, was what we had at the moment. It could change," Rice told Gregory. "I commented that this was based on what we knew on that morning, was provided to me and my colleagues and, indeed, to Congress, by the intelligence community. And that's been well validated in many different ways since."

Many wondered why Rice, as U.N. ambassador, even took on the role of spokesman that morning instead of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Rice has said she agreed to the appearances because Clinton was exhausted from dealing with Benghazi.

But the controversy over that appearance may well have cost her the job of Secretary of State. She was being considered for the post after Clinton announced she was stepping down, but ultimately, Rice took her name out of consideration.

Though Obama vowed during the 2012 re-election campaign to bring the perpetrators to justice, Gregory noted that no one has yet arrested.

Rice said that promise still stands.

"We will get the perpetrators. We will stay on it till it gets done," she said.

Chris Wallace, host of "Fox News Sunday," noted that his program had asked the administration for its views about the violent protests in Ukraine, but that the White House "decided to put national security adviser Susan Rice on only one show today," as opposed to all five in 2012.

"Of course, Fox has led the way in questioning how the administration handled Benghazi. Perhaps Susan Rice didn't want to answer the tough questions we would have asked," Wallace said.

Rice discussed Ukraine on "Meet the Press," downplaying claims by ousted President Viktor Yanukovych that he will not step down.

"He is gone," Rice said, noting that Yanukovych has packed his things "in an orderly fashion," including furniture, and moved out of the capital of Kiev. His plane was prevented from leaving for Russia late Saturday night.

"It’s not in the interest of Ukraine or of Russia or of Europe or of the United States to see a country split," she said. "It’s in nobody’s interests to see violence return and the situation escalate."

Scores have been killed in protests during the past week. The country is split between those, like Yanukovych who favor strong ties with Russia, it's former Soviet leader, and those, such as the protesters, who want to align with Europe.

"There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe," Rice said.

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