We Live in A strange screwed up World of Social dysfunction, Misconception and Direction.

I often wake up with the thought....are we as a society really as stupid and shallow as we appear to be in the short moments of life that we surround ourselves with such petty unrelated things to us that we fall into the Drama of things that don't apply to us.

Every day there is a new headline of something that is so pounded within our brains that one would if they would think for their selves, they would believe it to be just a stupid as those of us that see life as it is without it's distractions and it's simplicity.

Last night before retiring to rest my body for the night, I read about Paul Walkers death.  I thought to my self.  That's terrible.  Being that I am a big fan of his movies and knowing a little of his history. My first thought was that of his daughter.  I pondered on the pain, hurt, distress that she must feel and what all she had before her.  I felt bad for the family and thought about how short a life could be cut from this earth we live on.

Now with that said, I did not know Paul.  I did not attend thanksgiving with him this year and had never received anything from him or know anything of him personally other that he was one Hell of an actor and I Love all his movies.

The second thought I had before dozing off was OMG at the crap that would be posted tomorrow on face book.  Mainly the stuff that would make it look like everyone was his best friend.  Like they knew him personally.  People would be leaving messages and comments of what he meant to them when they didn't even know him.

Again, it is a tragic event.  One that maybe things can be learned from.  Maybe one that because of his Hollywood stature and the fact that as a actor of good standing might draw attention to things that need to be thought about and reflected upon.  A moment to reflex on yourself and your family and be vigilant and thoughtful of how precious life really is and how it can be cut so short.

All of this is said to state a few simple facts.  Today at this very moment all over the United States there is someone dying.  At this very moment, someone has lost there love one in a car crash.  Someones -love one has been shot, stabbed or beat to death. Someone did not make it out of a house fire.  A father and mother have lost a child.  A child has lost a parent or their parents.  A man or women has lost their sibling.  Someone has just kissed their husband or wife bye and will receive a call within the hour that they are no longer with us.

As everyone knows, I'm very straight forward. I usually don't pull punches or debate with idiots.  I believe facts, common core sense and the ability of a human being to reason for their self is the basic element of liberty.

Among those that tragically die are our service people.  And they give all.  Even when they survive and make it home.  They do so at the expense of divorce,  not getting to see their children born or raised, and spending time alone in a far away place

This year alone in Afghanistan, 109 American human beings have died.  In 2012, 301 dead.  In 2011, 412 dead.  In 2010, 496 dead.  In 2009, 310.   Since 2001 the total is 2189.  These numbers are Afghanistan only.

The casualties of those that have not died have a separate number.  It's 6750. This number is for both Afghanistan & Iraq.
 http://apps.washingtonpost.com/national/fallen/theaters/afghanistan/

My point and our failure.  We glorify people that we do not even know, but like to think we do.  When there are truly people that have given all. Granted, we do not know them either, but what they gave for us was themselves so we could retain the privilege of going and buying a movie ticket to watch the actors we love in movies we know are not real.  

And they do it all without it blowing up all over social networks like it was a personal event in our personal lives.

So I ask, you upon waking this morning.  Really?  

THE STORY OF TAPS

As soon as Taps was sounded that night in July 1862, words were put with the music. 

First were "Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep."  As the years went on, many more versions were created.  There are no official words to the music but many popular verses exist today. 

Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than the call Taps. The melody is both eloquent and haunting and the history of its origin is interesting and somewhat clouded in controversy.  

Taps began as a revision to the signal for Extinguish Lights (Lights Out) a bugle call that was used as the final call of the day and as the name implies, ti was a signal to extinguish all fires and lights.  Up until the Civil War, the infantry call for Extinguish Lights was the one set down in Silas Casey's (1801 - 1882) Tactics, which had been borrowed from the French.  The music for Taps was adapted by Union General Daniel Butterfield for his brigade in July, 1862.

As the Story goes, General Butterfield was not pleased with the call for Extinguish Lights, feeling that the call was too formal to signal the days end, and with the help of the brigade bugler, Oliver Wilcox Norton, wrote Taps to honor his men while in camp at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, following the Seven Days battle.  These battles took place during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862.  The new call, sounded that night in July, 1862, soon spread to other units of the Union Army and was reportedly also used by the Confederates.  Taps was made an official bugle call after the war.    

                                                                                                 

Why the name Taps?  The most likely explanation is that the name was borrowed from a drummer's beat.  The beating of a bedtime roll-call called Tattoo by the drum corps would be followed by the Drummer of the Guard beating three distinct drum taps at four count intervals for the military evolution Extinguish Lights.  Following the call, three single drum strokes were beat at four-count intervals.  This was known as the "Drum Taps" or in common usage of soldiers "The Taps" or "Taps."

It is not clear how or why Taps became associated with funerals.  However, it's earliest official reference for use at military funeral ceremonies is found in the U.S. Army Infantry Drill Regulations for 1891.

Maybe just maybe it signals the final "Extinguish Lights" of someone who gave all. 

Wel3

WHAT IS A OATH? WHAT DOES IT IMPLY??

Every structure has a foundation.  Without that foundation nothing can stand.  A house built upon rock will with stand.  A house built upon the sand will crumble with the winds and rising tides. 

There is a cornerstone to every structure.  Our's is the people.  It is our freedom and liberty to live as we see fit.  Not as others deem we do. 

WHAT IS A OATH??  WHAT DOES IT IMPLY?  

A oath is a promise.  

It implies that you will stand on the oath as it is your reason for existing. It's your promise to a belief which has stood and stands all time.   It's a oath to protect , and never falter from whatever that oath is too. A oath is a serious obligation. 

OATH-

1. a. A solemn, formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge, oftern calling on God, a god, or a                 sacred object as witness. 

    b. The words or formula of such a declaration or promise.

    c. Something declared or promised

2.  An irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God or something held sacred. 

The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I think the part of this that stands out the most is the word ABILITY.  

I firmly believe that with any task that if you lack the ability, fortitude, prudence, to do anything related to a oath you took, one should step down or away from the task at hand.  Or better yet not have taken the oath in the first place.   

The ability to fulfill a oath is the very strength of what ever is at hand or at task.  When something is unfulfilled,  something is not done,  the foundation of that structure will crumble and fall.  It's the nature of life. 

Ability---  1.  possession of the means or skill to do something.
                  "the manager had lost his ability to motivate the players"

              2.  talent, skill, or proficiency in a particular area.
                   "a man of exceptional ability"


If you don't stand, no one will stand for you.  But when you stand, others will stand with you.  And when many stand, the voice of many can be heard.  However, if you are complacent within the comforts of what you do not think can fall, you are doomed to crumble as if your house is built upon sand. 


Without hope there is no strength.  Without strength one cannot stand.  Without leadership there is no motivation to stand.  Without standing there is no purpose. And without purpose, there is no existence of liberty or will. 

Stupidity and Arrogance of the Human Race

There are some things that I'm sure even mystifies the gods.

I'm quite sure high on that list is the stupidity and arrogance of the human race.

Life is not fair.  Nor is death or even the chance to exist.  But for those of us right in the middle of that mix, we do expect justice.  Notice I said justice and not fairness.

Justice corrects a wrong.  Fairness, well who ever said you were entitled to anything.  What makes you that special.

People are born free.  Just because you exist doesn't mean that someone owes you anything just because you exist.  At some point in your life you have to take responsibility and take care of your self and stop taking from others.

We live in a world wide society. Within that society there are two types of people.  One, the group of people that make people dependent on them and two, the group of people that desire freedom to be independent and free from the kind of dependency that the first group offers.

This is the never ending mix of civil wars, regional wars, world wars, family disputes, neighbor hood conflicts, property boundary issues, and the list goes on and on.

Back to Justice and Fairness.  In the history of the world there has always been justice.  There has never been fairness.  Fairness will never truly exist except in the marketing of control and hope of the dependent.  However, justice has always existed simply because of the prelude of fairness, right and wrong.  Strange how that works isn't it.

In recent years and during a period of economic crisis world wide and among the super powers there has been a movement toward fairness and equal justice.   Sounds great, but truth of the matter, it's just socialism.  There are many forms of socialism and it just never works.  Appears great, but always fails.  (Simple history proves this to be a fact.)  Why is this...?  Usually because business structures crumble under tax pressure and that machine that runs it (a government)  economically runs out of other peoples money forcing higher taxes and lower wages.

When fairness and equal justice come into play, really what happens is "group one" has gained an advantage over "group two".  (paragraph 6) And in this type of environment, there is no true justice, just excuses.  Existing laws that work are not enforced and "group one" tries to imply that there needs to be new laws.  Reality is.. they are just trying to change a structure or foundation of something that works into something they want, which is power and dependence over people.

In this country (and it use to not be this way), we go from one crisis to another to the point we get so overwhelmed that we forget nothing is getting done, fixed or solved. Things that use to get done in order to fix or solve a problem are sugar coated with "words and promises" till they are out of sight and out of mind.  But nothing gets fixed, just ignored and forgotten.  It's called MISDIRECTION.

Therefore, there is NO accountability, NO justice and absolutely NO fairness.

Yes, I'm quite sure the gods are mystified by our stupidity.

THIS IS THE REALITY OF AN EVERY OTHER WEEKEND DAD.

When something is traded of smaller value, with something of a larger value, the price paid by the one with the lesser value pays the difference.  That difference is the amount given up in order to have more. This is the true price.    

When someone is equal to another there is room for compromise. When things are equal there is room to trade or swap without any thing lost between the give and the need.

However, when things are not equal it becomes a game of the majority being in the position of giver and the minority in the position of receiver. It often forces the receiver to be the one to have to compromise.  Another term for this is enslavement.

The minority has but certain things.  The majority has every thing.

In a case where a father has two weekends a month and a mother has everyday of the week and two weekends a month, there is nothing the father can give but only take.  The mother on the other hand has everything to give and nothing she can take. 

A father has only 4 days a month he can plan anything.  A mother has 27 days she can do anything she wants.

A father has only 4 days; 2 days at a time to plan anything with his child.  A mother has 27 days to plan and do as she likes. She has liberty and he has enslavement.  

Now it seems to be wrong for a father to ask for extra days, because it only comes in the form of an award or a price.  Never freely given.    (Giver--Look what I’ve done for you)

On the other hand when a mother ask for any of the 4 days of the father and the father says, “these are the only days I have to plan with”,  it becomes (Giver--you only care about your self and not your child)

Even when a mother offers to swap days or give more time in return for the fathers off days, it is done at the expense of the fathers off days and the days traded or swapped for fall within his work week. This is totally different from days being off with the child.  So in reality, even though days were swapped, the father is still at the loss with his time with his child and the mother is in the gain while the father is at a loss.  It is a unconcerned act by the giver.   

The reality is that it is a self centered act by a mother toward the father.  Blaming the father for not caring about his kid if he does not comply with the mother’s request is a total act of being self centered and no regards of the time a father needs with his child.

The same rings true of a father that takes each and every off day to spend with his child and then that one weekend out of the year that he needs a weekend (off day) to accomplice something that can only be taken care of or done on a off day and not when he is at work turns into the same reality.  The mother will blame the father for not spending time with his child because he did not take her gift.  In fact the mother has entrapped the father with a gift of only 4 days a month without freedom to live life with things that need to be done and his child. This is not compromise.  This is enslavement.  

When a father gives up his time, which is a bigger gift than anything a mother can gift to the father.  (Reason; the father loses something.)  The mother just takes something freely with out thought or appreciation of the father or the child’s need to spend time together. 

It is justified by swapping days or giving extra days as a reward for doing so. That is not justification.  It is the giver giving something that the receiver did not have in the first place and is a gift.  It is not a tool for compromise. It is something that cannot be used as a tool to take away what is already given.   But this is how the empowered prey upon the enslaved.

 There is no justification in not being equal.  There is no justification in swapping days when there are 4 days a month pre planned in advance.   For those days are the father to see his child. 

There is no justification for a mother to have 27 days and really expect someone she has imprisoned from their child not to say that it is wrong to mess with his pre planned days.

 There is no justification to claim compromise when you only have something to give and everything to take.

   

I can promise you that this perceived kindness only comes from needing something.  Other wise time would be equal.  Time would be given to the father because he simply needs to be with his child.

 The illusion of kindness is what the mother gives the father in order to take from him.     

But it always turns into look what I did for you.  I offered and you didn’t.

 Those are excuses to steal from the only real time a father has to plan something with his child.   The mother’s personal needs and convenience (even though she has 27 days and the father 4 days) are in reality more important than the relationship of the child and the father. 

This is the reality of an every other weekend Dad. 

wel3

Would of, Should of , Could of

Would of, Should of, Could of, Might have, Didn't know about it, I'll have to look into that, and not Aware.

These are statements of excuses.  Statements of Hope and misdirection.  Phrases designed to give the feeling ;  I will do better next time without owning up to something and not having to say I'm sorry.

They almost sound like phrases out of a childhood book.  You know, the children s books that are suppose to teach a hidden moral or value through the mistake of one of the characters in the book.

Phrases such as these are not signs of success or leadership but rather that of failure.  They are not phrases of leadership but used when nothing else can be used except the phrases;  I'm sorry and yes we did that.

A leader can be summed up in many different ways.  You have the general definition of leader and leadership.

lead~er
  1)  The person who leads or command a group, organization, or country.
  2)  A person followed by others

lead~er~ship
  1) The action of leading a group of people or an organization
  2) The state or position of being a leader
  Synonyms-  guidance-lead-direction-management-command

Okay, very simple.  But very twisted by those that are in leadership roles.  The very synonyms, guidance, lead,direction, management and command, sum up everything a leader is responsible for within his/her power.

Guidance is to lead the direction along a path that a leader believes.  Lead is to simply lead those in a direction that persons are to follow.  Direction is the place a leader plans to take those people.  Management is how a leader pulls these thing together and makes them happen.  Command is the power a leader has to accomplice guidance, leading, and direction.

Point being, a leader is a person that is in control of the mood of a country or whatever he/she is leading.  They are to guide that country.  They are to lead and do so in a direction that they  manages and commands.

Therefore ad mist times of scandal.  Ad mist the times of people being caught with there pants down. Ad mist  promises made to gain the votes to become a leader because promises of change are made, that are in fact forgotten while everything quite to the contrary has been done, you have silence.  You have sporadic replies through facets of a leadership to hope things quieten down and are forgotten.

Silence is a great way to duck, but its not a great way to Lead.

But you see, we have a founding and a constitution that holds these type of actions to a standard of accountability that holds such leaders to be honest within the intend toward the people that he/she governs.  Problem is, we have a leadership that has done and pushed the envelope within its limits of what it can actually do without taking that envelope and completely destroying it. We have a movement within this country that is chipping away at the fabric as well as a movement that makes it seem that the minority thought is the majority thought when in fact it's not.  It's a movement of misdirection.   A movement that has forgot that a leader is suppose to guide and lead in a direction that stands true for why the people elect a person.

 That reason, well it's simply, to manage and command under the guideline of those things he/she swore to defend and uphold.  One being the Constitution.   Two the will of the people that are the government. Three to defend we the people and do nothing to bring harm within our borders.

There are many ways to be a good leader.  But sometimes it takes a bad leader for we as a people to see and understand that fact.

One thing I know is when things go bad that fall under the management of a leader.  Whether a leader knew about them or not.  That person is accountable and shame on them for not having a better grasp of such a great responsibility.

Would of, Should of, Could of is something a child says to their parents.  Not a leader to a watching world.

wel3  - Freedom Matters.  

What Defines A Man. D-Day After Thoughts.

HE CRIED FOR HIS MOM. HE THOUGHT OF HIS WIFE. HE REACHED FOR HIS FRIEND. D-Day June 6, 1944.  

When a man dies and his soul departs his body, there is a strong exhale along with a moan.  That moan is the strength to grasp the next breath of air that never comes.

After that death moan, there is a flag.  A flag-torn, battered but stands tall and furls in the wind.  It is all that stands on a field or beach of body parts and blood.  Blank dead eyes stare at the sky.

There was a time when men would leave their families to the ultimate course of death and march behind that flag.  They did so in order to protect their families, preserve their constitutional rights to life and happiness and to set others free from oppression.

Today is June 6.  June 6, 1944 was D-Day.  The Allied invasion of France was launched to liberate a people from socialism and dictatorship.

It was a time when men had guts.  They knew the difference between right and wrong.  It was a time when they had not just balls, but balls of steel and fortitude.

It was a time where war meant fighting.  It meant killing and dying.  It was a time where you did what you had to do to win and leaders that not only made those decisions but also took charge and led the fight. 

There was no quarter.  There were no rules of engagement or thoughts of a diplomatic solution because the reason of war was the fact that diplomacy had fell. 

Things are Very much different then that today.  Today our leaders falter on strength and dignity.

We have rules of engagement in an attempt to show kindness.  Kindness in war does nothing except get those of us that still have honor, valor, and dignity Killed.  Our military of today is forced by soft leaders to be personal relations personal instead of defenders of freedom and warriors.

We fight to give the appearance of strength.  But the wars linger.  Our enemies see this and they have no fear.  Back then we just kicked ass to the point the enemy would surrender.  It is war.

It was America.  The America from its birth of resistance to obtain freedom from a government that suppressed its people to the strength of helping other nations to obtain the same.

It wasn’t a war of political correctness. It was a war of right and wrong. It was a war of reaching out a helping hand.

It was a time that you knew the blood on your hands would be yours or the enemy.  And you either won or lost. 

We pushed forward till the job was finished.  We allowed no one to regroup. 

There was a mission, plan and goal. It had nothing to do with tolerance, feelings, or concern for people that walked under a enemies flag.

It had to do with every single reason we walked into a wall of bullets upon an open beach while the enemy was firing down upon us from the high ground.

 We moved forward stepping over our dead and dismembered to reach those on the hill tops to make them dead and then move on over their death till surrender.  Once there was surrender, we moved forward over and over until we reached the final goal.  And that is how a war is fought and won.  That is when victory is obtained.  We liberated those that were suppressed.  We gave them back what they had lost.

It wasn’t professional soliders that were already members of the army.  It was teachers, sales people, farmers, factory workers.  They volunteered because our duty was to protect ourselves, our form of freedom of the souls of men and their families.

It was a time where strong conservative people fixed things and the liberals passed out aid. 

It was a time where everyone prayed and looked at the Flag with tears in their eyes.

It was a time that men of steel exhausted his last breath for a world that cared about everything he had just given.

It was America’s greatest generation, the strong and brave.

Now, we are an America that passes out aid to our enemy.  We try to win their hearts and minds. Our leaders are made of tin. Our warriors are made of steel but are bound by rules of engagement and missions that do not have an ending solution. They die without a goal. We as a people do not have what it takes to finish a fight.   

    

The hand that reaches out to help someone up is usually the same hand that is severed off by the man lifted up.

It is what made us the greatest country in the world.  But it is also what has weakened America by electing progressive leaders.  Our hands are being severed from our enemies as well as with in.

D-Day will forever be one of the great liberations for those that so ironically despise us as well.

D-Day was June 6, 1944.

On June 7, 1944 we picked up 10,249 thousand battered, bloody dismembered bodies off the beaches of Normandy. 2700k British, 946k Canadians and 6603k Americans.

Some were buried and most thrown off ships into the sea for burial. It was a time that people did what they needed to do. No liberal fanatics.  Just life as it was.

In April and May of 1944, the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000k men and over 2000k aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day.  Code name “Operation Overlord”

Total lose for the three and a half years America spend involved in World War II was 405,399 Dead. 

The wars in Irag and Afghanistan over 10 years of fighting a war with no plan of winning it, we have lost 6518 brave souls. 

This is the difference between the Greatest Generation and the nation we have become.

When a man dies and his soul departs his body, there is a strong exhale along with a moan.  That moan is the strength to grasp the next breath of air that never comes.

Our Flag is a symbol of lost souls that have gave all so you can walk around and complain about fairness. And bicker about rights verses needs. We are a spoiled Nation. Spoiled by the blood of our ancestors fight.   

We take our freedoms for granted.  We need not too, before they are gone.

wel3