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Left HS before report cards came out. Enlisted in the Marines for four years. By the time those years were over, I was hooked - they had me for life. Spent nearly ten years as enlisted. Received a Silver Star, Bronze Star w/V, Purple Heart as a Sgt during first RVN tour. Upon returning to the State's received a combat commission to 2Lt. Retired after 36 total years as a Colonel. Book follows my career, but is more about the heroes with whom I served, the great mentors I had, and the leadership principles they instilled in me.

Lord Help Us

I received an email this morning from a reliable source that contained an article allegedly written by one Dave Ramsey. I replied to the email asking if I could have Dave’s original email because I wanted to contact him. I don’t know if this is the same Dave Ramsey that I knew back in 1965 when he was a fresh-caught 2dLt. out of TBS. The Dave I know graciously wrote the Foreword for my book. I was his first plt sgt in Co B, Schools Demonstration Troops (SDT) at Quantico, VA, in 1965. Dave retired as a Col, USMCR. It may not be the same Dave Ramsey. It could be the Dave Ramsey from Ramsey Solutions, but it doesn’t matter.

Dave says it all. I’m certain any one of us on here could have written it exactly as he did. We live in a strange, upside-down, aggravating, dangerous, and frustrating world. I am of the opinion that our country is on the brink of total disaster, much moreso than many countries throughout the world. To even consider that there are countries that are doing very well today, while we slowly crumble. Sadly, we have no one to blame but ourselves.  And it appears the only thing we can do about it is await the second coming of the Lord.

Here’s Dave’s article:

“This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life, so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone. You can’t justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective sense of direction. We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us. Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President. Universities that advocate equality discriminate against Asian-Americans in favor of African-Americans. Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while others are not held responsible for their actions at present.    Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights. People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.After legislating gender, if a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him. It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it. People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees. Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated. Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcomed. Five billion dollars for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not. If you cheat to get into college, you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country, you go to college for free. And, pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists”! Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility, and people were dying of a Chinese virus, but it was racist to refer to it as Chinese, even though it began in China. We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right. Wake up, America. The great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and sinking fast.”

Dave Ramsey

Thank you, Dave, wherever you are, my friend. God Bless!

“Keep the Faith,” so says Col Andy

Yes, by all means fellow Americans, keep the faith. Trump will prevail for he has truth on his side, and he won’t cheat, or play with the election results. But you can rest assure the other side will!

Col Andy

Copy and paste:

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2016/10/kneed-trump.html

Originally posted 2016-10-16 13:36:15.

The Rest of the Story

While I cannot validate this post, and I would not even attempt to by going to the websites that seem to verify or deny validity of posts. Why”? Because I don’t trust them as well. You read and you decide, I already have — I believe it.

Hillary againAmbassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi post-haste in order to retrieve U.S. made Stinger Missiles supplied to Ansar al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brokered the deal through Ambassador Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc Turi. Then, some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan used against our own military. It was July 25th, 2012, when a Chinook Helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot Taliban didn’t arm the missile and the Chinook didn’t explode, but had to land. An Ordnance Team recovered the serial number off the Stinger Missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were now in full panic mode, thus Ambassador Stevens was sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. This was a “do-or-die” mission, which explains the ‘Stand-Down’ orders given to multiple Commando Teams. It was the State Department, not the CIA, that supplied them to our sworn enemies, because General Petraeus would not supply these deadly weapons due to their potential use on commercial aircraft. President Obama subsequently threw Gen. Petraeus ‘under the bus’ after he refused to testify that he himself had OK’d the ‘BS Talking Points’ about a “spontaneous uprising due to a YouTube Video.” President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton committed treason … and THIS is what the e-mail investigation is all about, why Secretary Clinton had a Private Server (in order to delete the Digital Evidence), and why President Obama, two weeks after the embassy attack, told the UN that the attack was because of a YouTube Video, even though everyone knew it was not. Further . . . the Taliban knew that this administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional approval when John Boehner, Speaker of the House, created the Select Committee, and the Taliban began pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals. Bowe was simply a pawn . . . everyone then knew that President Obama was a traitor. So, we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised . . . and a Secretary of State that is a serial liar, perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearing while running for President of the United States. Only the Democrats, with their hands out, palms up, will support her. Perhaps, this is why no military aircraft were called in . . . because the administration knew our enemies had our Stinger Missiles.

Originally posted 2016-10-15 21:47:30.

Paul Ryan is a FCJ

which stands for First Class Jerk. I said all along  he was the absolute wrong choice for the Speaker’s position. This fellow is a pure bred politician who need his nose wiped. I firmly believe he does not want Trump to win because he knows he will not get his way with him. He wants to be the big guy, the top dog in the pack of thieves, the larger than life person who knows and does all. However, under a Trump presidency, he will have to take a back seat (way back).

Now, I cannot attest to the fact that the headline here is valid, in fact, I have difficulty believing there were 70,000 American women raped by these low-life scumbags, but that’s not the point of the article. Just one is one too many, especially based on this POS’s record. What is going on in my country today? 

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Criminal Aliens Sexually Assault 70,000 American Women — But Paul Ryan Targets Trump – Breitbart

Originally posted 2016-10-13 13:49:29.

Are You Worthy of him?

That’s the question Lou Dobbs is asking all of us. I can’t answer for you but I sure as hell can answer for myself. Damn right I am worthy!

Yes, he has warts, don’t we all? I have said and done many things in my nearly 76 years that I “ain’t” too proud of, but that doesn’t make me a bad person. Just look at our so-called GOP members that are jumping ship. They were simply waiting for the right moment, the right incident, the right excuse to jump on the anti bandwagon because they know damn well he will turn that cesspool upside down, and they may have to begin doing something they have forgotten how to do – serve the people instead of themselves and the special interest. Harry Truman once said, “You can’t get rich in politics.” Well there’s a lot of folks, about 535 of them, that have proven him wrong. 

Copy, Paste, and you answer for yourself. Tell me your answer in a comment unless, of course, you feel you are have no warts.

lou_dobbshttp://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5085818847001/dobbs-the-clinton-cartel-emits-the-foulest-stench-of-all-/?#sp=show-clips

Originally posted 2016-10-12 17:24:44.