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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.

News Update from Canada

OMG, you have to feel sorry for our neighbors to the north.

mnaple-leafThe flood of Trump-fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week. The Republican presidential campaign is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray, pay taxes, and live according to the Constitution.

Canadian border residents say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, liberal arts majors, global-warming activists, and “green” energy proponents crossing their fields at night.

“I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn,” said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota.   “He was cold, exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range chicken.  When I said I didn’t have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?”

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just stuck their fingers in their ears and kept coming. Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals just south of the border, pack them into electric cars, and drive them across the border, where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.

“A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions,” an Alberta border patrolman said. “I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier water, or any gemelli with shrimp and arugula. All they had was a nice little Napa Valley Cabernet and some kale chips.  When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often wailing that they fear persecution from Trump high-hairers.

Rumors are circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer, study the Constitution, and find jobs that actually contribute to the economy.

In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the ’50s.

“If they can’t identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age,” an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, are buying up all the Barbara Streisand CD’s, and are overloading the internet while downloading jazzercise apps to their cell phones.

“I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can’t support them,” an Ottawa resident said.  “After all, how many art-history majors does one country need?

 

 

Originally posted 2016-11-07 09:39:17.

Personal Classified Ad

Please accept my apologies for posting a classified ad on my blog, but I’m somewhat desperate and want to sell this item ASAP. It is our RV that we purchased back in April to replace the one we lost in the hurricane. In our aged old wisdom we thought we wanted to downsize further from the 34′ rig we lost and went to a 25′ 8″ Class C, our first. Well, when you go from a 40′ to a 34′ to a  25′ “things” just don’t fit and some of those “things” are creature comforts that 15 years ago we cared less about, but at our ripe age TOTAL comfort is what I considered needed  AND deserved. For example, Ms. Nancy misses her washer/dryer on long trips like the one we took during  August up north in search of cooler weather, which we FINALLY found in Northern MN,  LOL. So, if you or anyone of your friends and acquaintances are in search of a a quality RV guaranteed by myself, a very experienced RV-er, send them my way at my basic email address, which is jb-bar@comcast.net. To be totally honest, with what I have added to this rig, this is one helluva deal.

Here is the link, and do not be afraid to make a sensible offer. May have to copy and paste in your browser.

Semper Brothers and Sisters!! Jim

https://www.rvusa.com/2019-winnebago-navion-24d-class-c-3804270

Originally posted 2023-09-22 12:52:50.

Capitalism VS Socialism

A cynic is someone that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde

corvette

Tom Nicholson

October 13 at 6:44pm ·

A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said I wonder how many people could have been fed for the money that sports car cost.

I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it, it fed the people who make the tires, it fed the people who made the components that went into it, it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires, it fed people in Decatur IL. at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore. It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer and fed the people working at the dealership and their families. BUT,… I have to admit, I guess I really don’t know how many people it fed.

That is the difference between capitalism and welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people’s pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self-worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for.
I’ve decided I can’t be politically correct anymore.

(I never was, actually)

Originally posted 2016-11-06 12:05:19.

WEAR RED ON TUESDAY

red-shirtREMEMBER to wear red when you go to the polls on Tuesday. Can’t have any political logos or candidates names or anything like that on it. Just a plain red shirt. If you have been living under a rock of late — as I have been wanting to do LOL — the purpose is to show there are people at that polling place who belong to the GOP. If the media is there and they film folks with red shirts and suddenly that voting district produces no GOP votes as allegedly happened in several districts during the primaries, they’s been caught.

I truly believe this is going to be the most fraudulent election of my lifetime.  And I think it will get ugly fast.

Originally posted 2016-11-06 10:39:56.