Thank you, Mr. Vice! It must be four o'clock and discipline and wisdom is flowing from Clay-O-Clock. (Inside joke from my book- "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area", top of page 243.)
Hopefully, Carol is doing better, Clay. We still pray so.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Clay Vice
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 14:44
Subject: Fw: we are the survivors
Very nostalgic....................and a real eye-opener for today's kids!!!
No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!
To Those of Us Born
1930 - 1979
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please
Read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno..
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's,
60's and 70's!!
We were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered
With bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,
We had baseball caps
Not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank FLAV-OR- AID made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing....that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..
No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
And then ride them down the hill,
Only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's,
No surround-sound or CD's,
No cell phones,
No personal computers,
No Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.
We ate worms and mud pies
Made from dirt, and
The worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn
To deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best
Risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons..
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
~
The quote of the month is by
Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this on.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
FW- Charles Schultz Philosophy- Thanks Sarah DuPuy Rapp!
Sarah,
I am so happy to have met you through the internet. I saw you as cheerleader and a Trojan Queen, when I was only a distant admirer of a classy Portsmouth lady. You may want to blame our mutual friend, Jim 'Flip' Spriggs for having your email addy on a post a few years ago.
You were kind enough to visit a book signing of mine at the Portsmouth library with another mutual friend, Carol Vice.
Portsmouth people by coincidence and each with an integrity of the very highest type . How lucky we can be to share the 'cultural center of our universe' with so many integrous ones!
Mr. Schultz is a highly recognized induiividual who is so perpetually enshrined in the OSU stadium each home game. He says some very lasting thoughts here.
Thanks Sarah DuPuy Rapp for sharing.
Sam
----- Forwarded Message ----
The Charlie Schulz Philosophy
(Scroll thru slowly and read carefully to receive and enjoy the full effect)
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.
You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them.
Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point.
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.
4 Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.
How did you do?
The point is, very few of us remember the headliners of yesterday.
These are no second-rate achievers.
They are the best in their fields.
But the applause dies..
Awards tarnish..
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special!!
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
Easier?
The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials..
the most money...or the most awards.
They simply are the ones who care the most
Pass this on to those people who have either made a difference in your life, or whom you keep close in your heart, like I did.
'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!'
''Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!"
I am so happy to have met you through the internet. I saw you as cheerleader and a Trojan Queen, when I was only a distant admirer of a classy Portsmouth lady. You may want to blame our mutual friend, Jim 'Flip' Spriggs for having your email addy on a post a few years ago.
You were kind enough to visit a book signing of mine at the Portsmouth library with another mutual friend, Carol Vice.
Portsmouth people by coincidence and each with an integrity of the very highest type . How lucky we can be to share the 'cultural center of our universe' with so many integrous ones!
Mr. Schultz is a highly recognized induiividual who is so perpetually enshrined in the OSU stadium each home game. He says some very lasting thoughts here.
Thanks Sarah DuPuy Rapp for sharing.
Sam
----- Forwarded Message ----
The Charlie Schulz Philosophy
(Scroll thru slowly and read carefully to receive and enjoy the full effect)
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.
You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them.
Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point.
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.
4 Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.
How did you do?
The point is, very few of us remember the headliners of yesterday.
These are no second-rate achievers.
They are the best in their fields.
But the applause dies..
Awards tarnish..
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special!!
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
Easier?
The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials..
the most money...or the most awards.
They simply are the ones who care the most
Pass this on to those people who have either made a difference in your life, or whom you keep close in your heart, like I did.
'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!'
''Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!"
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Bone chilling memory from 1987
Thanks Nita! David (Colonel Oliver North) and Goliath (Al Gore). Great recycle!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Elliott
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 19:11
Subject: Fw: Fwd: A Memory from 1987 (This is bone chilling!!!) You have to read this!!!!...
- On Wed, 10/13/10, jack hugheswrote:
-------Original Message------
Subject: Fw: Fwd: A Memory from 1987 (This is bone chilling!!!) You have to read this!!!!....
Do You Remember 1987.......
I had forgotten all of this. Do you remember when the senators were giving Ollie North such a bad time? This brings it all into perspective doesn't it?
Have a great day.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you remember 1987.......
Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information.........
It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were
playing an old news video of
Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra
hearings during the Reagan
Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a
senator, 'Did you not recently spend close to
$60,000 for a home security system?'
Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.'
The senator
continued, trying to get a laugh out of the
audience, 'Isn't that just a little excessive?'
'No, sir,' continued Ollie.
'No? And why not?' the
senator asked.
'Because the lives of my family and I were
threatened, sir.'
'Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned..
'By a Muslim terrorist, sir' Ollie answered.
'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'
'His name is Osama bin Laden, sir' Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name,
but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then
probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt.
Then the senator continued.. Why are you so
afraid of this man?' the senator asked.
'Because, sir, he is the most
evil person alive that I know of', Ollie answered, and the Muslims are trying to take over America and destroy it from the inside out and putting their people into our political offices.
'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator..
'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an
assassin team be formed to
eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.'
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that
was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
Also:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in
Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and
imprisoned him. As part of the
Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993,
Israel had to agree to release
so-called 'political prisoners.'
However, the Israelis would not release
any with blood on their hands. The American
President at the time, Bill Clinton,
and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher,
'insisted' that all prisoners be
released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked
us by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center
This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time
that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.
If you agree that the American public should be made
aware of this fact, pass this on.
Do Not Break - it is 8 years strong.
This is why I always say I love YOU....
This has not been broken since 9/11/01,
please keep it going...
This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11. In memory of
all those who perished this morning; the
passengers and the pilots on the
United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World
Trade Center and the
Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders..
Our prayers go out to the friends and
families of the deceased.
Send this to at least 10 people to show your support
PLEASE DON'T BREAK IT!!!!!!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Elliott
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 19:11
Subject: Fw: Fwd: A Memory from 1987 (This is bone chilling!!!) You have to read this!!!!...
- On Wed, 10/13/10, jack hughes
-------Original Message------
Subject: Fw: Fwd: A Memory from 1987 (This is bone chilling!!!) You have to read this!!!!....
Do You Remember 1987.......
I had forgotten all of this. Do you remember when the senators were giving Ollie North such a bad time? This brings it all into perspective doesn't it?
Have a great day.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you remember 1987.......
Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information.........
It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were
playing an old news video of
Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra
hearings during the Reagan
Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a
senator, 'Did you not recently spend close to
$60,000 for a home security system?'
Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.'
The senator
continued, trying to get a laugh out of the
audience, 'Isn't that just a little excessive?'
'No, sir,' continued Ollie.
'No? And why not?' the
senator asked.
'Because the lives of my family and I were
threatened, sir.'
'Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned..
'By a Muslim terrorist, sir' Ollie answered.
'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'
'His name is Osama bin Laden, sir' Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name,
but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then
probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt.
Then the senator continued.. Why are you so
afraid of this man?' the senator asked.
'Because, sir, he is the most
evil person alive that I know of', Ollie answered, and the Muslims are trying to take over America and destroy it from the inside out and putting their people into our political offices.
'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator..
'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an
assassin team be formed to
eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.'
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that
was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
Also:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in
Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and
imprisoned him. As part of the
Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993,
Israel had to agree to release
so-called 'political prisoners.'
However, the Israelis would not release
any with blood on their hands. The American
President at the time, Bill Clinton,
and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher,
'insisted' that all prisoners be
released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked
us by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center
This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time
that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.
If you agree that the American public should be made
aware of this fact, pass this on.
Do Not Break - it is 8 years strong.
This is why I always say I love YOU....
This has not been broken since 9/11/01,
please keep it going...
This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11. In memory of
all those who perished this morning; the
passengers and the pilots on the
United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World
Trade Center and the
Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders..
Our prayers go out to the friends and
families of the deceased.
Send this to at least 10 people to show your support
PLEASE DON'T BREAK IT!!!!!!
Re- History unfolding... Thanks Ron Walters and Jack Plymale
My computer was acting up a little this morning. I had a reply ready for you, Jack but this word machine went into the stall mode. I lost the reply. Let me try again.
My brother, George, believes that Harrry Truman was our best president and he may be right. I, with our mutual friend although I did not know you then, Eddie Hill, went into the Pan Theatre in New Boston thinking Thomas Dewey would defeat Truman in the 1948 election. Remember, newspaper headlines all over the country had "Dewey Wins" bold headline print set. Eddie, I, and most of the country were surprised to learn that Truman was defeating Dewey.
I, as a railroader's son, believed in democrats at the time. My boss, John Henry, was a school supeintendant's son who read things much more critically than I had been used to. His political conservatism slowly swayed me into digesting and analysing the news for the inherent prejudices on both sides.
I also worked for Abex Denison in Columbus. Bill Denison was the true 20th century entrepreneur who enjoyed his riches, but sweated and worked in keeping the company afloat by his own sacrifices. His hand picked successors when he sold his company were not up to the task in realizing the various risks he had to take in leading the fine Columbus manufacturer. That isn't unique for transitions from the entrpreneurs to the managers.
We have a country that has come away from the risks made in setting up our constitution and in leading this fine nation. We have let the ACLU and atheists affect our direction in their successful efforts to remove God from our governmenrt and schools. Progressive? I don't think so. I call it regressive.
We need representatives, not elitists, particularly now that the nation has swung so far left.
Throw the bums out and get right thinking and right acting people in who must represent the people of the USA!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 21:17
Subject: Re: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
Sam, Your knowledge of history is as good as this gentleman. You may not organize it as well, may not deal with it in the same intellectual way, in the same length or detail, but he does not state one thing, probably, that you didn't know and understand before.The real problem lies in the predisposition of the electorate." The bad guys lied all the way through and the democrats supported them.. You are right!!!!. Quote the same sentence and substitute Republicans for democrats and you would be right again. Patriots first, democrats/republicans second. Welfare of our nation first. personal welfare second. I'll confess to you that the first time I voted it was for a democrat and a Pendergast politician, but it was because he had the courage to do what was best for our country( and in the doing probably saved my worthless ass). Used the force at our disposal to end WW 2. The attitude of the electorate in our country makes being 83 a lot more comfortable than it might otherwise have been.,, Hang in there Sam!
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Sam Kegleywrote:
Thanks Ron!
I wish I were better at history; however, we lived a lot of history since the early 1930's, Ron. Depression, solved only by World War II, Pearl Harbor, atomic bombs on Hirosima and Nagasaki to end the war, The Korean War, Viet Nam, The Gulf War, terrorist destruction of New York City's World Trade Center, chasing Al Quaeda out of Afghanistan, Iraq War, both wars still on-going and now a traitorous president of our once great country. Terrorists threatening us every day and supposed peace loving muslims, whose Quoran supports jihads and killing of any unbelievers, mujslim leaders being appointed by the pres to high offices esch continue the insults to our great American senses. The bad guys lied all the way through and our demoncrats supported them.
Vote all who support this current assault of our freedoms out now!
Sam
From: ronald walters
To: Phyllis coffey ; Carol Gutman ; Jim Staker ; Dick Coffey ; Jim Welch ; Dick&Jan Heinzen ; Sam Kegley ; Don Yuenger ; Bob Looney ; JEFFREY WOOD ; Matt Walters
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:12
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: dave daubenmire
Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 AM
Subject: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
To:
----- Original Message -----
From: RICHARD WANDOFF
To: dave daubenmire
While the following e-mail my be a bit lengthy, you need to to overcome your impulse to delete and take the time to read it in its entirety. I think that you will find it worth it.
RJW
Subject: Fw: History Unfolding
Please take three minutes to read this.
Maybe he�s 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
If you pass this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed...
--
Jack P.
My brother, George, believes that Harrry Truman was our best president and he may be right. I, with our mutual friend although I did not know you then, Eddie Hill, went into the Pan Theatre in New Boston thinking Thomas Dewey would defeat Truman in the 1948 election. Remember, newspaper headlines all over the country had "Dewey Wins" bold headline print set. Eddie, I, and most of the country were surprised to learn that Truman was defeating Dewey.
I, as a railroader's son, believed in democrats at the time. My boss, John Henry, was a school supeintendant's son who read things much more critically than I had been used to. His political conservatism slowly swayed me into digesting and analysing the news for the inherent prejudices on both sides.
I also worked for Abex Denison in Columbus. Bill Denison was the true 20th century entrepreneur who enjoyed his riches, but sweated and worked in keeping the company afloat by his own sacrifices. His hand picked successors when he sold his company were not up to the task in realizing the various risks he had to take in leading the fine Columbus manufacturer. That isn't unique for transitions from the entrpreneurs to the managers.
We have a country that has come away from the risks made in setting up our constitution and in leading this fine nation. We have let the ACLU and atheists affect our direction in their successful efforts to remove God from our governmenrt and schools. Progressive? I don't think so. I call it regressive.
We need representatives, not elitists, particularly now that the nation has swung so far left.
Throw the bums out and get right thinking and right acting people in who must represent the people of the USA!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 21:17
Subject: Re: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
Sam, Your knowledge of history is as good as this gentleman. You may not organize it as well, may not deal with it in the same intellectual way, in the same length or detail, but he does not state one thing, probably, that you didn't know and understand before.The real problem lies in the predisposition of the electorate." The bad guys lied all the way through and the democrats supported them.. You are right!!!!. Quote the same sentence and substitute Republicans for democrats and you would be right again. Patriots first, democrats/republicans second. Welfare of our nation first. personal welfare second. I'll confess to you that the first time I voted it was for a democrat and a Pendergast politician, but it was because he had the courage to do what was best for our country( and in the doing probably saved my worthless ass). Used the force at our disposal to end WW 2. The attitude of the electorate in our country makes being 83 a lot more comfortable than it might otherwise have been.,, Hang in there Sam!
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Sam Kegley
Thanks Ron!
I wish I were better at history; however, we lived a lot of history since the early 1930's, Ron. Depression, solved only by World War II, Pearl Harbor, atomic bombs on Hirosima and Nagasaki to end the war, The Korean War, Viet Nam, The Gulf War, terrorist destruction of New York City's World Trade Center, chasing Al Quaeda out of Afghanistan, Iraq War, both wars still on-going and now a traitorous president of our once great country. Terrorists threatening us every day and supposed peace loving muslims, whose Quoran supports jihads and killing of any unbelievers, mujslim leaders being appointed by the pres to high offices esch continue the insults to our great American senses. The bad guys lied all the way through and our demoncrats supported them.
Vote all who support this current assault of our freedoms out now!
Sam
From: ronald walters
To: Phyllis coffey ; Carol Gutman ; Jim Staker ; Dick Coffey ; Jim Welch ; Dick&Jan Heinzen ; Sam Kegley ; Don Yuenger ; Bob Looney ; JEFFREY WOOD ; Matt Walters
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:12
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
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From: dave daubenmire
Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 AM
Subject: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
To:
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From: RICHARD WANDOFF
To: dave daubenmire
While the following e-mail my be a bit lengthy, you need to to overcome your impulse to delete and take the time to read it in its entirety. I think that you will find it worth it.
RJW
Subject: Fw: History Unfolding
Please take three minutes to read this.
Maybe he�s 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
If you pass this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed...
--
Jack P.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Re- Jesus Thanks Nita Elliott and Clay Vice!
Thanks Nita elliott and Clay Vice!
----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Elliott
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 19:01
Subject: Fw: Jesus
From: Clay Vice
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 3:56 PM
Jesus
Never Thought of This
Jesus died over 2000 years ago.
Nobody has ever referred to him as the late Jesus,
Not even the heathens.
Nowhere in history.
Nowhere has He EVER been referred to in past tense!
He is the Living God!
97% OF YOU WON'T FORWARD THIS MESSAGE,
When Jesus died on the cross He was thinking of you!
If you are one of the 3% who will stand up for Him, forward this.
"May God Smile at You Today"
----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Elliott
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 19:01
Subject: Fw: Jesus
From: Clay Vice
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 3:56 PM
Jesus
Never Thought of This
Jesus died over 2000 years ago.
Nobody has ever referred to him as the late Jesus,
Not even the heathens.
Nowhere in history.
Nowhere has He EVER been referred to in past tense!
He is the Living God!
97% OF YOU WON'T FORWARD THIS MESSAGE,
When Jesus died on the cross He was thinking of you!
If you are one of the 3% who will stand up for Him, forward this.
"May God Smile at You Today"
A Historian senses bad things eminent... Ron Walters
Thanks Ron!
I wish I were better at history; however, we lived a lot of history since the early 1930's, Ron. Depression, solved only by World War II, Pearl Harbor, atomic bombs on Hirosima and Nagasaki to end the war, The Korean War, Viet Nam, The Gulf War, terrorist destruction of New York City's World Trade Center, chasing Al Quaeda out of Afghanistan, Iraq War, both wars still on-going and now a traitorous president of our once great country. Terrorists threatening us every day and supposed peace loving muslims, whose Quoran supports jihads and killing of any unbelievers, muslim leaders being appointed by the pres to high offices each continue the insults to our great American senses. The bad guys lied all the way through and our demoncrats supported them.
Vote all who support this current assault of our freedoms out now!
Sam
From: ronald walters
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:12
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
While the following e-mail my be a bit lengthy, you need to to overcome your impulse to delete and take the time to read it in its entirety. I think that you will find it worth it.
Subject: Fw: History Unfolding
Please take three minutes to read this.
Maybe he�s 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
If you pass this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed...
I wish I were better at history; however, we lived a lot of history since the early 1930's, Ron. Depression, solved only by World War II, Pearl Harbor, atomic bombs on Hirosima and Nagasaki to end the war, The Korean War, Viet Nam, The Gulf War, terrorist destruction of New York City's World Trade Center, chasing Al Quaeda out of Afghanistan, Iraq War, both wars still on-going and now a traitorous president of our once great country. Terrorists threatening us every day and supposed peace loving muslims, whose Quoran supports jihads and killing of any unbelievers, muslim leaders being appointed by the pres to high offices each continue the insults to our great American senses. The bad guys lied all the way through and our demoncrats supported them.
Vote all who support this current assault of our freedoms out now!
Sam
From: ronald walters
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:12
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: History Unfolding
While the following e-mail my be a bit lengthy, you need to to overcome your impulse to delete and take the time to read it in its entirety. I think that you will find it worth it.
Subject: Fw: History Unfolding
Please take three minutes to read this.
Maybe he�s 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
If you pass this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed...
Frank Hunter reply to my PHS alumni Directory poet this morning... Thanks Frank!
Our school offers an alumni directory of all classes and all students for free. Go to www.phs.com. Then on the left side click on other and links. Then scroll down to “click here for: Portsmouth City Schools.”
Then on the left side under our trojan logo, click on class list then simply choose the year you want from the chart. You can short-cut this by just going to www.portsmouth.k12.oh.us/oldver/Schools/PHS1/alumni/classyear/main.htm
Then on the left side under our trojan logo, click on class list then simply choose the year you want from the chart. You can short-cut this by just going to www.portsmouth.k12.oh.us/oldver/Schools/PHS1/alumni/classyear/main.htm
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