Veteran Looking at His Dog

9-5-2018

Nikes – Just Do It

Donate to Homeless Veterans

It started out like a bad dream, a nightmare really. Then “Colin” cancer took root in the NFL evoking a reaction from President Donald Trump in the tweet literally heard round the world that indicated kneeling for the national anthem was disrespectful and players should be fired. It would seem that the president’s tweets contained some sort of “fire starter” and maybe should have alerted the Center for National Consciousness so someone could send for the politically correct police to remedy the situation.

It wasn’t long before spread like wildfire across the board to include NFL boardroom, NFL franchises team owners, coaches and players. Soon it had infected public school sports programs nationwide.

What began with Colin Kapernick as his statement against social injustice was handed off the NFL players who supported Kapernick and vowed to continue until he was “given a job” back in the NFL. It was no longer about social injustice, as the overpaid social warriors began demonizing themselves and one even said he felt like a “monkey” as he signed his $93M “deal”.

Public outrage ensued over the blatant disrespect exhibited by NFL players toward the national anthem, the flag and the country. Calls for boycotts began in earnest as fans began burning NFL memorabilia, once prized jersey’s and tore up season tickets. Vowing to turn off the NFL until respect returned to the game. The boycotting has hurt the NFL’s bottom line, but the lesson was not learned.

Then Nike upped the ante as they chose Colin Kapernick for their “Just Do It” campaign. The outrage was immediate as fans began burning prized Nike shoes and other memorabilia.

It was a comment on social media where a retired US Army Colonel, a Special Forces soldier urged not the burning of Nike shoes but the giving of those shoes to Homeless Veterans. Wow!

What a novel idea, take Nike shoes so despised by incensed fans and give them to Homeless Veterans often despised and overlooked by society. Thus begins the saga of “Donate Nike Shoes” with an additional proviso – add a NEW pair of socks and hand them out to Homeless Veterans.

Another venue is the VA’s Veterans Stand Downs where veterans are brought in for checkups, clothing and medical treatment and such: https://www.va.gov/homeless/events.asp

This would be a great way to incorporate donations of Nike shoes where they can do a lot of good. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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9-4-2018

Washington Talk with George Carlin

I watched a You Tube video where George Carlin was explaining how politicians talk and thus how they think (or failure to). According to him politicians in Washington must speak with “great caution” so that they “don’t actually say anything”.

Here are some examples that I thought it might be fun to refer to when listening to your favorite politician on the radio, over the internet or on television:

• Address the Problem
• Average American
• Continue my work in government
• Core Values
• Don’t answer = Respond
• Don’t decide = Determine
• Don’t say = Indicate
• Don’t tell = Advise
• Feeling the heat
• Get on with my life
• Get the facts out to the American people
• Greatest Nation on Earth
• I will be exonerated
• Initiative = Idea that isn’t going anywhere
• Innocent until proven guilty
• Let me Suggest
• Low level of American intelligence
• Make a Judgement
• Make an Assessment
• Miscommunication
• Mistakes were made
• Move the Process
• Moving Forward
• No evidence
• Offer a Recommendation
• Patriotism
• Peacetime Military = Young men and women stationed halfway around the world
• Probably by someone in my office
• Proceeding
• Public Service
• Put this thing behind me
• Quoted out of context
• Ritual Suicide
• Serving the Nation
• Soft Money
• Take Responsibility for your actions
• Term Limits = Terms used by politicians
• The American people are a lot smarter than they are given credit for
• The whole thing blown out of proportion
• To Meet these Challenges
• Trust in the fairness of the American people
• Trying to get to the bottom of this
• Twisted my words
• Wartime Military = In places the average American can’t find on a map
• Wartime Military = In places they can’t pronounce
• You are implicated

Many will see the humor in these sayings, while for the younger generation it will pass right over their heads.

Let me add a few here that are current political speak

• Abortion = Woman’s right to choose the murder of her unborn baby
• Black Lives Matter = Not to blacks they don’t
• Blue Lives Matter = Racist term showing support for law enforcement
• Border Patrol = Racist Trump agency that stops undocumented immigrants from crossing over to U.S.
• Communism = The government does everything for you
• Constitution = Outdated and old fashioned document with no relevance today
• Democrat = All Black voters must be
• Fake News = News outlets who distort or non-report the truth so as to sway public opinion
• Family Separation = Trump does to innocent children who accompany their parents across the border illegally
• Fascist = Must be Trump supporters
• Homophobic = Doesn’t agree with me
• C.E. = Illegal law enforcement stopping undocumented immigrants from staying in the U.S.
• Illegal Immigrants = Illegal Immigrants
• Nazi = Trump supporter who doesn’t agree with me
• Racist = Doesn’t agree with me
• Republican = All Trump supporters are
• Sensible Gun Control = take away citizen’s right to self-protection
• Snowflake = Democratic supporter who doesn’t agree with me
• Socialist = Bernie’s minions
• The Wall = Racist way to stop undocumented immigrants from crossing the border
• Undocumented Immigrants = Illegal Immigrants
• White Supremacist = Trump supporter who doesn’t agree with me

Some of the above terms and ideas seem comical by today’s standards, yet the bar has been lowered so that even today’s standards are unreachable by even the lowest achievers. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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9-4-2018

Disrespect Unchecked is Like a Cancer

So one man singlehandedly sacrificed for social injustice? Yes, but it wasn’t Colin Kapernick. One year ago one man #78 Alejandro Villanueva of the Pittsburgh Steelers took a stand for what he believed in and as a result was publicly and repeatedly shamed while others were unable, unwilling and afraid to do so and became an embarrassment.

Steelers head Coach Mike Tomlin who told the media that he had expected 100% participation after the team voted to stay in the locker room until after the national anthem. Villanueva ignored the order to remain in the locker room.

This former army ranger was one and he alone came outside to honor the flag and the national anthem. I would expect no less from a combat hardened Bronze Star Captain who was shamed until he publicly apologized on camera for standing his ground?

Oh it could have been easy to go with the flow, follow the crowd and act like everyone else, but it takes someone with intestinal fortitude to stand on your principles because it’s the right thing to do.

Colin Kapernick on the other hand publicly took a knee during the national anthem to protest social injustice?

Taking a knee during the national anthem WAS and IS disrespectful and when the president weighed in on this matter, the entire NFL, team owners, coaches and players have collectively taken a knee in support of Kapernick? That was not sacrifice by any standard.

Addressing social injustice is setting a positive example, going into the community to educate and discuss ways and means of ending the injustice would be a better way. I’m sorry but disrespecting the flag, the national anthem and the President of the United States is nothing more than a cancer to the soul of America.

During the past year what has occurred is a cancerous movement that has grown to include school sports programs, resistance to traditional American values.

The real social injustice is when one segment of society self-identifies with racially charged rhetoric and attempts to exact social bullying tactics in order to prevent their own betterment. What is happening in cities across America are gangs freely roaming the streets terrorizing innocent people with looting, shooting and running amuck. Rather than address the root cause and formulate solutions, it is better to resist and attack the police as if that will make things better?

What is missing in this equation is man’s need and dependence upon a loving and merciful God. Try as he might man is the problem, not the answer. Jesus alone is the answer to the sinful problems of man.

2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

We must turn from our wicked ways, fall down on our knees and pray and as a people call out to Almighty God once again for deliverance.

I am reminded of the story of an injured man trapped on a rooftop during a flood. He prayed to God asking for help. Soon a helicopter came overhead but he wouldn’t budge. Later a small boat came by and still he wouldn’t budge. Finally the man succumbed to his injuries. Then he asked God, “Why didn’t you help me?” God replied that he sent a helicopter and a boat but the man refused the help.

Our nation has been crying out to God for help. Now we choose to ignore the help because we don’t like the messenger? Go Figure! – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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9-3-2018

The Great Fraud Perpetuated Against America

It has just occurred to me that many instances in my lifetime have been times when members of Congress have consciously and with purpose used the U.S. government to commit fraud against American citizens and tax payers for great personal gain.

Most Americans do not know, nor are aware of the extent of this great fraud perpetuated against America. Even so, how can we recover what was lost, when we don’t know the extent of that loss?

Presently there are 100 Senators and 435 Representatives that make up the United States Congress, the first branch of government. Senators are to represent the interests of the states and Representatives are to represent the interests of the American citizens of their home states. All are elected in cycles so that in order to do a fresh sweep and clean out ALL elected members of Congress it would take THREE election cycles. That is how it was established in the U.S. Constitution.

Therein lies the problem, how to lay down the absolute power held by various members of Congress so that they willingly leave office and go back to private practice?

It is an almost impossible task because of the various committees within each branch of Congress and to further complicate things there are more than 240 voting blocs WITHIN Congress called Caucuses that have been created along political, religious, ethnicity, and geographical and other lines.

We already know that “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” and “The Love of Money is the Root of ALL Evil”.

So how do we begin to reign in an out of control Congress? One proposal is by establishing term limits. Another is to bring the Congress under the same standards as average American citizens (pay, health and taxes).

Those are easier said than done because it would literally take an “Act of Congress” to make it happen.

The House and the Senate would each have to draft legislation in concert that would limit themselves to a maximum of two terms. They would also need to draft legislation preventing them from serving in both the House and the Senate; or confining them to serving in either the House or the Senate.

The House and the Senate would have to draft legislation in concert that would place them under the same health care plan as all Americans; to stop all Congressional retirements; remove entitlements after Congressional service; Reestablish “Public Service” as the motivator; and ban ALL Congressional lobbyists.

It is my opinion that career politicians in Congress are beholding to so-called “traditional” practices and outside groups to the point that their Congressional service is no longer Public Service. Without going into great detail there are quite a number of the 535 members of Congress who are career politicians with an excess of 20 years in Congress. Some have gone from House to Senate or other way.

Incoming members of Congress have no preconceived notion of what’s ahead for them, or maybe their motives are still unclear about how to best serve American voters. Some will come in with grandiose ideas of effecting great change. Others will come with personal gain in mind.

We are greatly removed from the days of Patriotic Americans standing on and for the Constitution. Our institutions of higher learning, public education and some alternate learning facilities have to do a much better job of teaching American History; Tradition and Values; Economics; Geography; World Affairs; as well as the Reading, Writing and Arithmetic; and Trade Skills that enable our young Americans of today to become productive workers and leaders of tomorrow. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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9-2-2018

There Is No Comparison

Let me start off with “I TOLD YOU SO”.  Not that it needed to be said, but it makes me feel better saying it. Politicians are politicians are politicians. They tell you what you want to hear so they can get your vote. Their interests are not in you or those you represent, not even disguised in patriotism wrapped in the red white and blue and John McCain was a soldier turned politician. He wasn’t a maverick as many are led to believe, he was mediocre at best. The media referred to him as a “Favorite Son” in the headlines of this morning’s local paper. President Trump was referred to as “Good Trump” because he sent Air Force Two to “fetch” this favorite son to the nation’s capital and chastised because he went golfing instead of the funeral he wasn’t invited to. Go Figure!

The following statements may be a true indicator of the John McCain that spent over 35 years “fighting” for America in the halls of Congress and according to his colleagues he loved the “soldier” and was on the Armed Services Committee of the Senate.

What I don’t understand are how liberals (not just democrats) figure that a man who failed to achieve the highest office of the land can be equated to the sitting President of the United States?

Donald Trump was not a politician, yet on his first attempt scored the nomination against politicians and business professionals alike and beat the opposing party’s “best” candidate during the 2016 election.

There has been a lot of hype over Donald Trump’s past. History looks back on his younger years as Trump being a “bad boy”, a son of privilege who developed some nasty habits, yet was the envy of the rich and famous. Trump was a self-made man who was frequently seen with a beautiful babe on each arm, frequenting the nightclubs and hotspots of New York City and elsewhere.

The hype over John McCain’s past shows him as a son of privilege, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, yet his mediocre accomplishments warrant everything except praise by those who knew and served with him during the Vietnam War and in the halls of Congress. His marriage into money cemented his place in Congress.

The differences are clear John McCain was often seen as a bitter man unhappy over life and more scornful than a woman who suffered from hurt feelings. As a member of Congress, McCain often sided with the opposition party against his own party. This caused the legislative process to often come to a screeching halt.

So how is it that Obamacare passed without opposition from Congress or McCain? How is it that no Comprehensive Immigration Reform was tackled successfully during his reign? Why was no border wall legislation and/or funding pushed through to enhance border security?

It’s a well-known fact that absolute power corrupts absolutely and John McCain had a hold on that absolute power, to the point of deciding who would or would not be invited at his funeral. He was a self-centered man to the very end.

On the other hand Donald Trump was also a self-made man, with all the fame and fortune any man could want. He put his life on hold, cast aside his fortune and fame for the country that he loves. During his younger years he appeared to exist for vanity’s sake, but all that changed when he saw a need and knew that he had a plan and answers to change the failed direction of the nation. There is no comparison between the life of McCain and the life of Trump. Both sought to have their own way and dealt with rejection differently.

I’m not knocking the lifetime accomplishments of either McCain or Trump, yet I know that when one goes through life seeking the praises of man those praises are ones only reward. John McCain has received and will continue to receive the praises of those who placed him on that pedestal. These are the same people who opposed McCain’s bid for presidency and are rejecting Trump’s successful bid as president.

Donald Trump is on a different trajectory and while it is nice to receive recognition on his historic accomplishments, his reward is to do the task he has been given and break down the barriers plaguing this nation and return America’s eyes back to Almighty God as he continues to “Make America Great Again”.

I pray that American’s do not end up going out on the same defiant terms as John McCain. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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