Patroits and Piss Ants!

After the outstanding weekend I had with my fellow Air Force Security Police old timers that served in Vietnam and Thailand....I hate dwelling, digging, slumming, my way back into the dark regions of politics....a subject which it appears will in short order, destroy the very republic that we served. It no longer comes down to a Republican or Democrat thing...it is now a Conservative, Patriot, Christian, vs liberal, atheists, Marxist, Socialist thing....

Barack Barry Soetoro Obama was elected by 53% of the population, an election that saw his opponent, John McCain, cave in almost every sense of the word...cave to the politics of Political Correctness. McCain, a war hero, POW, could not bring himself to challenge or criticize "The Messiah" at all during the campaign, could not go after Obama's far left friends...thus McCain was beaten, before he got started....And no we are stuck with a "Out of his League" Marxist Rookie. A lightweight who has surrounded himself with Clinton retreads and outright criminals. Here is a list:

Secretary of the Treasury: Tim Geithner-Tax Cheat

Secretary of Health and Human Service: Tom Daschel-Tax Cheat

Attorney General-Eric Holder-Criminal who kidnapped Cuba Refugee Elian Gonzales at gun point and returned him to Cuba, Illegally...also the top Anti Gun nut in the Clinton Attorney Generals Office, working under Janet "Iron Dyke" Reno.

Add Hillary Clinton, the "Bosnian War Hero" as Secretary of State, and wife of Impeached President Bubba.....Hillary the Carpetbagger, is probably the best of the bad lot.

Then you have the men writing in rules of spending in Congress....Charlie Rangel-Tax Cheat, Barry FagFrank and Chris Dodd....the "men" behind the Fanny and Freddie mess.....

Way to go Barry, you have in 2 weeks done more than GW Bush did in 8 years to destroy the Republic....and trust me, Bush did enough....the Republican don't get a pass:

Only 21 voted against Holder...although all of the House GOP voted against Obama's bloated "lack of" stimulus package, the Senate GOP is wavering.....the Trillion Dollar boondoggle is about to be leashed upon our Children and Grandchildren.....The country will never be the same.

So meeting with the men of "my" war this weekend was a sweet change, now we head back to the reality of Barack Obama, and the coming second Great Depression.....

Hold on to your hats gang....it's gonna be a bumpy ride. God help us all! It's your country, if you like the direction is it heading, do nothing. If you, like me, see the evil that is our Federal Government, time to pick up the phone or get on your e-mail and tell the sonsabitches in DC that you are 'Mad as Hell' and you despise what they are about to unleash on the USA.

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So, that is a little, back from the great weekend, to reality rant.....State Baseball rules meeting tonight, although I may wait for a couple weeks and go to the one later in the month...depending on how the spirit moves me. Dartball last night, we continue our slide into mediocrity and I do on a personal level as well.....3 for 9 and 2 RBIs, it's been a so-so year.

So today, I have a few bills to pay, some shopping to do, and go through a stack of e-mailed photos from the reunion and ID them....

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Photos-Top Patroits from this weekends Vietnam Reunion....my friends, Sam Lewis, Mike Tillman, and Jack "The Old Cowboy Poet" Smith....then we have the pissants...Tim Geithner, Tom Daschel or Tom Asshole, as I like to call him...Tax Cheats Obama can't do without....and finally Eric Holder and his "handiwork"...remember 8 year old Elian was so evil, that Holder and Reno's henchman had to come after him with automatic weapons?

UPDATE: Little Tommy Daschel has withdrawn his nomination...bet he wishes he had just stayed a lobby hack, could have saved himself some big bucks in those taxes he never paid!!!! Another Obama hand picked criminal leaves with tail tucked between his legs.....prh

Vietnam Reunion 2009-The Day After

By all accounts, our Vietnam Security Police (Mini) Reunion was an outstanding success. We ended up with almost 3 dozen former Air Force Sky Cops that served in Vietnam and Thailand during the war, along with another 2 dozen wives and friends.

Patricia and I left Celina about 8AM yesterday, and headed the 80 miles to Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton. The temperature read 2 below when we headed out....it would not be much warmer outside for the duration of our time at the Museum. But the atmosphere inside the dining room was warm indeed.

You have to remember this "Mini Reunion" was a fly-by-the-seat of your pants plan. Wayne Dezarn, Mike Tillman, Rick Adams, and Larry Dotson and I had met at the Museum in February 2007 for a cup of coffee, photo, and BS session on a Saturday afternoon....we decided to do it again this winter, and would go to the VSPA Bulletin Board and see if any of our brothers from around the Midwest and their wives might join us for lunch, talk, and a tour of the facilities. This would be no frills, no set fees, just a sit down, with lunch, talk, and a tour, if you wished. We set the date for the dead of winter...knowing there was a chance that Dayton would have cold and snow, but not a big chance...heck the average late January temps in that part of southwest Ohio is about 40 degrees.....NO CHANCE yesterday...with 10 inches of snow on the ground, the temperatures struggled into single digits by the time of our memorial service at the Defender Fortes Statue.

At 11AM sharp, 24 of us, cameraman Mike(whose dad was a Vietnam Vet, who passed away 6 months after his return), and a handful of wives met at the statue...in fairness to the other guys, they had been out there and already made the long walk to the Museum when the rest headed out...several guys like Wayne stuck out the entire time, which was well over an hour, in the bitter cold...it may have reached 5 or 10 above(but the lower number was probably closer) with a chill factor well below zero. After Steve Flickinger(DaNang 1972) a retired Dayton and Miami Valley police officer and current History Teacher at West Carrollton High School

http://lawandorderteacher.blogspot.com/

gave a moving tribute and prayer for the fallen and the living....Thanks Steve....Then Cameraman Mike(also a Law Enforcement Officer) took many frozen photos outside, before we headed back inside to the dining area that the staff of the Air Force Museum had reserved for us....there for the next several hours nearly 60 of us had lunch, conversation, swapped old stories and looked at old photos...meanwhile our cameraman kept busy taking photos and printing them on the spot....several groups headed for the Presidential Planes, others off to the inside museum...several of us stayed in the dining area(including Patricia and me) and watched the gear and swapped more stories....at 4PM my wife and I headed down to get a quick view of the POW/Vietnam section, after saying our good-byes. Just before 5PM our youngest son Hal, who lives in Fairborn, met up with us....and we headed to the Texas Road House Steakhouse and had either ribs or NY Strip for supper....Patricia and I headed home and arrive in one piece about 8:30PM....over 12 hours from start to finish...and it was worth every minute. Thanks Guys, and wives, you were all great.

Special Thanks to my buddy Wayne DeZarn for his efforts, especially at the statue and keeping things going inside...Bob Griffith, a retired veteran Sky Cop who works at the base, and got his snow blower out on Friday to clear a path to the statue...Steve and Mike for their extra efforts in prayer and photos....Howard Yates for driving through ice covered Kentucky all the way from Orlando to Dayton...James Dunn, who drove 14 hours through the UP of Michigan from Crystal Falls(on the Northern Wisconsin border), and my buddy Sam Lewis and his wife Ruth who came with Jack "Old Cowboy" Smith and his wife Roberta, Sam from Virginia....Tom Oller and wife Denise from over in Illinois.

We ended up with 33(at least) Sky Cops and 24 family/friends, from Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois, and Florida...8 states. An outstanding time and effort, despite the weather...I know another handful had hoped to be with us, but illness, weather, time, and other setbacks stopped that....hopefully they and more can join us next time.......

The Men, homes, and their bases:

Howard Yates, Orlando, Florida, Bien Hoa 67-68

Warren Maynard, Peru, IN, Korat 71-72, NKP 73-74, Utapao 74-75, K-P Handler

Fred Murray, Flint Michigan, Bien Hoa 66-67

Sam Lewis, Virginia, Phan Rang 67-68

Jack Smith , West Jefferson, Ohio, Tan Son Nhut 68-69

Dave Maltzan, Michigan, Cam Rahn Bay 68-69

Dave Ramey, Middletown, Ohio, Tan Son Nhut 68-69

Bob Hovart, Phan Rang 70-71

Thomas Bell, Middletown, Ohio, Tan Son Nhut 68-70

Lew Carver, Newark, Ohio, Bien Hoa/Pleiku 68-69

Wayne DeZarn, Huber Heights, Ohio, Binh Thuy 69-70

Barry McLean, Hamilton, Ohio, Takhli 67-68 and Phan Rang and Tuy Hoa

Tom Oller, Morrisonville, ILL, Phu Cat, Phan Rang, Bien Hoa, 68-69

Fred Krisch, Columbus, Ohio, Pleiku 66-67

James Dunn, Crystal Falls, Michigan, Da Nang

Tommy Webb, Beavercreek, Ohio, Nha Trang 66-67 and NKP 75-76, Udorn

Tom Dierig, Highland Hts, Kentucky, Safeside 68-70, Tan Son Nhut 70-71

Mike McCabe, Cincinnati, Ohio, Bien Hoa K-9 66-67

Don Graham, Bethlham, Pennsylvania, Tuy Hoa 68-69

Bruce Dague, Cam Rahn Bay

John J Scott, Jr, Tipp City, Ohio, Pleiku 67-68

Robert Griffith, Riverside, Ohio, DaNang and Tan Son Nhut 1970

Mark Hatfield, Fairborn, Ohio, Binh Thuy 67-68

Russ Elmore, Indianapolis, Indiana, Bihn Thuy 69-70

Rick Adams, Cincinnati, Ohio, Safeside, 823rd CSPS Phan Rang/Pleiku 1969-70

Steve Flickinger, Miamisburg, Ohio, Da Nang 1972

Harold Turnbloom, Bellebrook, Ohio, U-Tapo 1969 through 1972

Allen Workman, Louisville, Kentucky, NKP, 1974

Thomas McCandless, Phan Rang 67-68

Mike Tillman, Kentucky, Phan Rang 1968

Richard T(Rick) Holstein, Cam Rahn Bay 1970-71

Pat Houseworth, Celina, Ohio, Nha Trang 1969/Tan Son Nhut 1970

Once again, OUTSTANDING TIME......

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photos-top left...Pat Houseworth and my right hand man for all this, Wayne DeZarn...24 of us at the statue in the frigid weather.....Big Sam Lewis, Tar Heel fan(I won't hold that against him) and my friend from Virginia, The Tan Son Nhut gang....Me, Dave Ramey, Jack Smith, Tom Bell, and Tom Dierig. 4 of the original 5..Rick Adams, Pat Houseworth, Wayne DeZarn, and Mike Tillman...only Larry Dotson was missing, Larry, good luck with the surgery, and we will catch you on the next one...best of luck. The Safesiders, Rick Adams, Tom Dierig, Barry McLean, and Tom Oller(hope I got that right)...... and last Sam Lewis, Cowboy Jack Smith, and our long distance traveler...retired Orlando Cop Howard Yates.... DOUBLE CLICK FOR LARGE VERSIONS!

Vietnam Reunion 2009

Each year for the past 14 years or so, members of the Vietnam Security Police Association:

http://www.vspa.com/

have gathered in one spot each October for it's annual reunion. The association has grown from a handful of dog handlers back in 1995 to a fully funded organization of some 1200 members nationwide. The Internet and our web site is responsible for almost all of the groups growth in it's entirety. The annual get together is held near an Air Force base each year, and this past year it was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 2009 event will be held in Phoenix...other years we have been in Las Vegas, Valdosta, Georgia, Washington DC, San Antonio, Texas, and in 2002 it was in Dayton...the only year I have been able to attend.

The problem with the annual event comes in several areas. Expensive, long travel distances, getting the time off....for me, the past few years have been, I do football officiating, and the middle of October is a busy time....my wife is working, and I really have no reason to travel long distances for a get together like that without her.

A couple of years ago a half dozen of us decided to get together for a rather informal meeting...some guys being from Kentucky the rest from southwest(or my case, west central) Ohio, we figured Wright-Patterson was as good of place as any to meet....we chose February 2007 in the dead of winter to meet at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Pat...It so happened Sam and I were on our way back from an RV run to Florida that morning so we hooked up with the other guys and broke bread and drank coffee, got a few photos(see banner shot of me next to the Security Police Defender Statue), and had several hours of good conversation. When we broke up the meeting, we decided we should do it again "someday" and invite some other guys from around the region to join us.

Fast forward to December 2008....after some e-mail exchanges, the original gang, me, Mike Tillman, Larry Dotson, Wayne DeZarn, and Rick Adams, decided to meet up again in the winter...and why not post a note on the web site Bulletin Board:

http://www.voy.com/287/

asking anybody else that felt the need, to join us at the Museum......

Needless to say we were not, or at least I wasn't, prepared for the response. it was outstanding....so at 11AM tomorrow January 31, 2009, a small group of Air Force Security Policeman who served in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam "War", will gather with wives and family members around the frozen statue outside the Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio.

At this point, depending on those willing to travel, in cold weather, we will see somewhere between 50 and 100 old timers....I have to admit when this all started, I was feeling that we would get maybe a dozen of the gang, from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana....instead we have guys coming from Florida, Virginia, Montana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, and the other states mentioned as well. Needless to say we are surprised in a good way....who would have thunk it? Traveling in the dead of winter to frozen Ohio for a 6 hour get together with guys who for the most part know each other only through the web site and mail....AMAZING! We will have a memorial, lunch and then tour the impressive AF History Museum...say our good byes and head either home or to the various motels we will use.

The VSPA is comprised of Security Police who served in SE Asia during the 1960-1975 war. Unlike Army and other outfits...we SPs did not serve as one outfit during our time in the military. We served as individuals within a Squadron...and got orders, not as a group, but as individuals....I went to Nha Trang in the summer of 1969 by myself....I landed at Tan Son Nhut, and flew via a C-130 north to Nha Trang, on that plane were me, and old mommasan with her goat, and the 5 crew members....it is a trip that is forever burned into my mind....I love that memory...the new guy in country, flying in an open cargo door airplane above the jungles, just 48 hours after leaving the USA...amazing, I had never been out of the country, let alone into a war zone. Most of the other members of the VSPA have similar stories. We served as individuals with other individuals as a well oiled group....it was unique.

So most of the members of the Vietnam Security Police Association never knew each other until this group came along...some of us found old friends long lost....I know that is the case for me. Harry Beven, Bruce Thompson, my old NCOIC Phil Lange(who I drove nuts at Nha Trang), Tony Nieomoka, are old friends I found after 30 years, when I joined the group in 1999...others that I now consider friends, I never knew...Bill Marshall from my old home town of Scott, Ohio, Big Sam Lewis, Mike, Rick, Wayne, and Larry, and others...I am glad I found this group, I look forward to tomorrow.

We will start off by freezing our asses off at the statue, saluting those that are no longer with us, including those lost on January 31, 1968, the day of the TET Offensive that took the lives of several SPs and hundreds of other American Heroes.....

I plan on having the complete story and some photos to share next week.

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photos-Patches I have worn/VSPA Today/14thSPS Nha Trang/377th SPS Tan Son Nhut...and manning the Civilian Gate at Nha Trang, RVN, October 1969.

More White Death

The forecasters were calling for at first 1 to 2 inches in the Celina area, then 2 to 4, 3 to 5, and finally they said "Screw it" and called for 9 to 12 inches of snow...only then did they get it right.....it appears from my back yard ruler rule we got about 10 inches of the "White Death"...the schools and colleges are cancelled....giving Hal a chance to leave the Dayton area and go skiing at Mad Mountain near Bellefountaine, Ohio, while Sam's break gave him the chance to help Ma and Pa Houseworth out with the digging, then going over Grandma's house and dig a path for his Uncle Mike to the car...which he won't be using anytime soon, as the alley where the car is next to has not been touched...I plowed the Jeep Wrangler into that alley and with the inch of ice on the bottom of all that snow, I slid off into the neighbor's side and had one Hell of a time getting out...even 4 wheel beasts like the Wrangler slip and slid on ice...off I did get though and plowed like a 16 year old through the side alleys...sometimes the kid in you has to come out.

The most snow we have had since last March, when the short lived 14 inches came our way...it melted quickly, like most March snows however, when the temps climbed to 50 a couple of days later...this one will be sticking around awhile.

Even with Dayton getting a heavy snow, it should have little or no effect on our Mini-Reunion for Vietnam Air Force Cops on Saturday....we plan on taking shovels to dig out around the statue for Air Force Security Police for our prayer service honoring the men who died at TET on January 31, 2009. Then we will move inside for our tour of the Air Force Museum and a hello and BS session...we are still hopeful of a gathering of around 100...and even though it's a Midwest event, we have guys coming from Florida, Virginia, and even Montana. Should be a great day!

We did get our games in, Sam at Spencerville, while I made the slippery drive 50 miles north to Antwerp, sliding home in the intrepid before the roads deteriorated as they were this morning.

I could do some more ranting about the disgrace of Obama's $825 billion stimulus(see Pork) package...but the out of his league rookie has become a joke in his own right...he sees radio talk icon Rush Limbaugh as his arch enemy....maybe Barry should don a mask and with his trusty rusty sidekick, Joe "Hair Plug" Biden fight the evil Conservative "Talkers", Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck....

Obama is a Punk...his followers are gawd damn fools! And anybody that hasn't figured that out by now, is a hopeless dolt.

Stay warm, wherever you might be.....

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Photos---Various scenes of The Great White Death of 1/28/09 in my front and back yard....top, the picnic table ruler...says about 10.5 inches/The driveway before the work began, Patricia starts on the front porch/the view from Livingston Street, and the driveway once the shoveling and plowing was complete.

King of the Useful Idiots

Or in this asshat's case, useless idiots. Jimmy Carter, is without a doubt, the WORST PRESIDENT in my lifetime...probably anybody's lifetime. The peanut brained cracker put the misery index through the roof during his miserable 4 years as Prez. 12% unemployment and 21% bank loan interest. You think 2009 is bad? Just remember(if you are old enough) back 30 years when this SOB was sitting in the White House.

The brilliant Carter years brought us:

Free Passes for the cowards known as Draft Dodgers of the Vietnam War....Jummy gave these gutless bastards a free pass, thus spitting on the graves of 58,000 Killed in Action, not to mention those of us who came back alive, although many hundreds of thousands came back with physical and mental injuries.

The Ayatollah Assahola in Iran...Peanut Brains stood by when the Shaul was ousted in Iran. Soon after 400+ hostages were taken at the American Embassy and held until Carter's miserable excuse for a Presidency was over...freed when one Ronald Reagan became President, thus ending our national nightmare called Jimmy Carter.

The boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics...brilliant move Jummy.

Double Digit inflation and double digit unemployment...the worst economy since the Great Depression, and nothing, not even the Great Recession of 08-09 comes close.

So the American voter ends Carter's miserable administration despite the best efforts of CBS, NBC, ABC, and the New York Times/Washington Post cabal. Ronald Reagan brings America back from the brink.

And now that he has been out of office almost 3 decades, Jimmy is back...back supporting Islamic trash rather than our allies in Israel. Getting a laughable Nobel Peace Prize...For What? His Peace Prize is as big a joke as Al Gore and his phony Global Warming/Chicken Little thesis. Carter is back, building Houses for Humanity(probably the only decent thing this useless bastard has done in his miserable life), writing plagiarised books bashing Israel and other former Presidents, who by all accounts(even Clinton and Bush 2) were more successful and better, than his sorry ass.

I was actually channel surfing when I got home last night, so who do I see? I see the miserable 39th President on the Jon Stewart show on Comedy Central...the only thing I could think of was..."Which of these 2 is the most useless?"

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Jimmy Carter=Islamic Terrorists Best Friend...I'm not sure even Obama can top that.

I also should say despite my dislike for Carter and his ilk, like Bill Clinton, this has nothing to do with the folks in the south, who are some of my favorite people....it would be nice if they could send a true southerner(i.e. Conservative) to the White House.

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OK, OK, that is my rant for today....Just seeing that miserable excuse for a human being proped up by the MSM for the past 30 years is enough to set my blood a boiling...and I have to vent!

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In other news...my cold is starting to subside. I did a Jr High Girls double header at Greenville last night and survived, got a couple of games of Dartball in after. Tonight I head back north to Antwerp...for a boys double header Jr High. I could be driving through several inches of snow on the way home....at this time we are expected to get 3-5 inches. Dayton and south are scheduled for 6-9 inches, the schools(including Hal at Fairborn) are already closed in anticipation. The good news is, this stuff will end by Thursday and the weather for our Vietnam Mini-Reunion on Saturday at Wright-Patterson looks good...cold yes, but clear. So things are on schedule for that.

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Obama is....Out of his League!

Still in a battle with my second cold of the winter...and I've got to say, this is a nasty one. After going 3 years or so without any virus problems, this winter has taken it's toll...but at least my back is holding out, so far.

As I watch the first few days of the Obama Administration, one thing shines clear. The man is out of his league...a rookie, a lightweight, not ready for prime time. Whatever you want to call him, the one thing for sure is, this guy is not Presidential material.

He called for change, so what does he do? Hires retread after retread from the Clinton years. He wants to work across the isle(so he says), but responds to his GOP critics, "I won"(question is Barry, what have you won, except a thankless job, you aren't ready to handle?), he tells the GOP not to listen to Rush Limbaugh. Yep, that will work, as soon as you and your henchman put the "Hush Rush" Fairness Doctrine into place.

In addition to the retreads from the Clintons, he appoints a Treasury Secretary that is a tax cheat to run the IRS...nice move Barry! He plans to close down GITMO in Cuba...of course "The Ebony Messiah" has no clue what to do with the terrorists housed there....lots of luck with that one Barry. He appoints a hired gun, anti gun stooge, Eric Holder, as Attorney General...this is the guy who ordered his Jack Booted ATF agents to break into a young Cuba refugees home at gun point to kidnap him and return him to Castro's Cuba, against his dead mother's wishes.

In other brilliant moves, "The One" appoints his arch enemy Hillary Clinton and her baggage(see former President as husband) to be Secretary of State....so she can report on the small arms fire she receives when visiting Bosnia and other 3rd world countries. He opens up the US Taxpayers wallets to pay for abortions in other countries...nice moves Barry, you idiot!

And this clown has not been in office a week....you can bet other brilliant moves, including more assaults on the first and second Amendments are in store.

Barry Barack Obama=Out of his league/out of his mind! And for those that voted for this lightweight, choke on your change! The Islamic terror community has to be licking their chops at this guys ineptitude.

And no, the Republicans don't get a pass...all too many of those in Washington are all set to approve his Cabinet without questions, and pass his bullshit stimulus package. which will reach $2 Trillion before it's said and done. Nice work cowards of the GOP.

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DAMN!!!

For someone who is seldom sick, this really pisses me off! Sure I have back issues, my blood pressure moves up and down, a little high these days, 145/75, I need to shed 15 or 20 pounds, 208 right now, turn 60 in about 7 weeks, etc, etc, I usually can count on at least feeling pretty healthy...

Not so this winter. Early in December I came down with a cold that lasted almost a month...3 weeks later, I come down with another. One day after getting my 6 month BP and heart check-up, I feel the tingle, and it's not down my leg thinking about "The Obamanation" being sworn into office. It was in my throat on Wednesday night. After my JV girls game last evening, it had turned into another full blown cold, and it sucks. Sure I can still move around and do my daily chores, and basketball games...at least for now. But it still stinks! I purchased some rather expensive over-the-counter cold med called "Zicam"...so far it's been a $10 failure, but I started on it late in my symptoms...so will see how it goes from here on out.

Today is a day of rest...no games, I will need it, tomorrow this old fart has 3, a Junior High boys double header at 10AM at Waynesfield(with Sam), then tomorrow night I do a boys JV game at Lima Perry....that should be a test, considering how my cold feels...I will probably need Sunday to rest up for the next week, which includes 4 nights of basketball and my VSPA Mini-Reunion at Wright-Patterson.

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Our weather will hit above freezing for the first time in over 3 weeks today...that will last exactly one day. Tomorrow back to teens for highs and single digits for lows.

In the meantime I will take meds, listen to Beck and Rush, and drink plenty of fluids...mostly coffee and OJ. For now, it's down to the basement, for a nice hot shower.

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Top-The Vietnam Security Police Association has a Mini-Reunion at The Air Force Museum on January 31, 2009, 11AM-5PM at WPAFB Fairborn, Ohio.

Do you have those days/weeks?

Where nothing seems to come out of your mind worth writing about? Well that is where I'm at now.....plenty on the table, but can't put it into words.

Gun Laws...Obama...Marxism...Obama...Coming Financial "Depression"...Obama....upcoming Vietnam Reunion at Wright-Patterson...Obama...coming down with another cold...Obama...Armaageddon...Obama...The end of Capitalism....Obama...2 months until spring...Obama....Hillzilla Clinton as Secretary of State...Obama!!

There you have it, plenty of stuff to write about, but the thought of this man leading the Free World trumps all....I see the Dow is down about 300 points at Noon, I see the Tax Cheat has passed committee 18-5(way to go RINOS) with the help of the GOP to become the Treasury Secretary....

So I have a mental block, sue me!

I'll be back with more tomorrow. Basketball, Girls League game at Lincolnview tonight.....

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photos-both of these make some folks feel good, one is good for you, the other isn't. I'll leave it to you to pick and choose.

Mid Winter and other Events

Here we go, January 20, 2009, a so-called(by left wing loons and pundits) historic day in America. I agree, this is the day a hard core Socialist is installed as President of these United States. In a similar vein, I see where now fully 50% of our states have organized succession movements, are they related? Perhaps.

If you want to celebrate what is happening in this country...compare Ronald Reagan's inaugural speech and the one given today by Barack Obama....Obama is a Progressive, aka: Fascist! His followers and excuse makers are fools. As I said yesterday, I hope he fails miserably, because if he succeeds we, as a country, lose. Words mean something, and by Obama's very words, he is a Fascist, Progressive, Socialist, Marxist, whatever? He is something else....something, even the likes of Bill Clinton could not pull off....he is the tanned version of FDR, and that is not a good thing.

Ronald Reagan was a great President, Barack Obama will be a disaster.....and even the likes of Fox News(the so called Right Wing Network) are giving him a pass......I won't!

I won't be watching TV News today or perhaps for the next few days...my stomach has been rather unsettled of late, why make it worse?

Basketball and Dartball last night(where I continue to struggle going 3 for my last 29 at bats)...basketball at Lima Central Catholic tonight....

This morning, after an overnight low of 3, we got another inch of snow, then about 6AM the frozen fog rolled in for an hour, delaying schools, but that has cleared, and left us with the ice crystals on trees, shrubs, and wires.

That is it for today.....except to say a half hearted "Thank You" to George Bush for his release of the Border Agents yesterday....of course doing things the half-assed way, like he is used to. Bush only commuted their sentences, meaning he didn't have the guts to pardon them, instead releasing them(March 20th), with time spent....their crimes remain on the books. Better late than never George, but as usual, not quite good enough!

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Photos-Ronald Reagan in Western Movie Garb...the Last Real American President, the rest have been wimps, whore mongers, and marxists./And some "icy" photos with crystals left by the overnight frozen fog.

The One gets Crowned/Worst Presidents Ever!

Tomorrow Barack Hussain Obama becomes President of these United States...Barry and his followers are determined to make it "The Socialist States of Amerika"...thanks to the Bush and Democratic Congressional bail outs, they already have a pretty good start. This guy is going to be a bad President, at least for the first 2 years. You need look no farther than his "plans" and his picks for his Cabinet....a group of Marxists, Socialists, and Greenly Weenies...you can bet his court appointments will be the same. The Junior Senator from the crime ridden capital of Illinois, Chicago, is way over his head. He's a guppy in a world of large mouth, tax spending, hungry Bass. In short, Obama, is out of his league.

I've made it a point to ignore politics, and not watch the crowning of Barry Soetoro, since the election...but even Fox News is gushing all over themselves in anticipation of the $150 million Inauguration party which starts tomorrow...Bush, who those with Bush Derangement have despised, well "W" and his cohorts spent only $42 Million. I actually heard Washington Post loudmouth Sally Quinn talk about the Obama's in the same vein as the Kennedy's...."Camelot", she says....lol they said the same thing about the gang of white trash that the Clintons brought to Washington....The media is so in tank with the Democrats, it is almost laughable, if it wasn't so sickening, and Obama so dangerous.

I've seen and read from Republicans and even some real Conservatives that they want Obama, after all he is our President, to be a success....I'm not going to lie, I want him to be a flop, a one term disaster, a total failure. Why? Because, if he succeeds, we become a Socialist or worse yet, a European style shithole...controlled by Washington and it's bureaRATS. A "Nanny State" which our kids and grandkids, and their kids, will never be able to pay off the debt for. So folks, I don't want Barry to be a success, I want him to be a one term failure. Why lie, like so many others are doing? I won't, I can't!

Tomorrow it begins, brace yourself, bend over, and grab your wallets!

Bush and the worst Presidents of my lifetime.

I voted for George W. Bush, not once, but twice. I don't regret it. However, I am disappointed in his record over the last 8 years....Bush is not the worst President of my lifetime...not even close, I can think of 3 disasters as President that were far worse.... but first off "W".

Bush 2 came to DC with solid Conservative credentials...he gave those away by failing to stop runaway Congressional spending(he would seldom veto anything), working with liberals, such as that drunken assclown Teddy Kennedy on bills like education. You never work with snakes, unless you are a Pentecostal Preacher. He supported the flood of illegals, let Border Agents be jailed(they are still there) for defending themselves and the border. And he spit in Israel's eye by calling Islam, "The Religion of Peace" and stifling our ally in it's efforts to bomb the Hell out of Iran.

Those more than offset his good work on the War on Terror and his court nominees, especially his 2 Supreme Court picks....Bush was a disappointment, but can you imagine if either Al Gore or John "Hanoi" Kerry has been sitting in the White House? A freaking disaster for sure.
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I was born in 1949...Harry S Truman had won the White House on his own, defeating NY Governor Thomas Dewey. All I can say about Harry is, he ended the Second World War, and he did the right thing....Bombing the crap out of Japan, was the right thing.

Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, was a war hero, and a moderate Republican....he built the Interstate system....as President, I guess he was OK....myself, I would have much rather had someone like General George Patton in charge of both the war in Europe(he would have taken out the Soviets, saving us money and time) and White House, Patton would have probably kicked ass as President.

JFK? He wasn't in long enough to rate...a womanizer, Kennedy, despite what you read, was a fiscal conservative. The left would like you to think he was a hard core liberal...maybe in his sexual habits, but not in the running of the country. Sadly, he didn't last long enough to give him a thumbs up or down.

LBJ, Lydon Baines Johnson, ranks #2 on my list of worst Presidents of my lifetime....this corrupt son of a bitch got us into the war in Vietnam, based on lies, and then refused to win it....he was in bed with the industrial/Wall Street complex, who didn't want to piss of China. How's that working? China now freaking owns US. The second coming of the New Deal, aka The Great Society, was a disaster, as was his Civil Rights legislation....say what you will, those little items divided the country by class and race, they did not bring us together.

Nixon...much like Bush, Richard Nixon was a self proclaimed Conservative, he turned Washington into more rules and brought more Bureaucrats. Forget Watergate, I could care less, Nixon was a paranoid big spending politician, who decided to rub elbows with China, and like above with LBJ, they now own US.

Ford---never elected as President or Vice President, Gerald Ford was a good guy, it seems, and severed with honor....he was a transition President.

Jimmy Carter--#1 on my list of Bad Presidents in my lifetime....this Georgian was no peach...he did however have a brain the size of the peanuts he planted. The worst President in my lifetime, and possibly the worst of all time was a disaster. Jimmy coined the phrase "Misery Index" then proceeded to put it to record levels...by the time we got this clown(much like Obama, way over his head) out of office, we had seen unemployment over 12% and interest rates at 21%. We had been shamed in the Iran failed rescue and watched as Carter slithered back to Georgia, disgraced and a failure....somehow this bastard keeps coming back, and the media, like they did in the 1970s, gives him a pass.

Ronald Reagan...simply the best President of my lifetime, no one else comes close.

Bush 1...a disappointment, he never embraced Reagan's policies, left Iraq and Kuwait before we finished business, and was in bed with Congress on tax increases. George Herbert Walker Bush was a mediocre President.

And then there is Clinton, or should I say the Clinton's. Like a bad smell under the house, we can't seem to get rid of these 2 and their friends. Hillary, rejected by the loons on the left has still managed to weasel her way into Secretary of State status under Obama....lots of luck Barry with that appointment.

Bill Clinton is #3 on my list of worst Presidents of my lifetime....a liar, a womanizer, and most likely a murderer....and those may be his good qualities. If nothing else Clinton was so bad, that the GOP gained control of Congress, both houses together, for the first time in 40 years in 1994. That however, did not stop him from appointing far left judges to all courts, selling nuclear secrets to China, with the help of VP Al Gore, for campaign cash, and corrupting the very foundations of Federal Government to the point it may and probably won't, ever recover.

So there you have it....for what's it worth(which isn't much), my list of past Presidents, and my outlook for the crowning of King Obama tomorrow.....like it or not, I will not sugar coat my distaste for everything Obama, and will point out his faults when necessary...his good qualities? Why should I point those out, if he has any? The media and slobbering morons of Hollywood and pop culture will do that.
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In other news...the weather has stabilized, it is 5 above as I type this, the snow won't be melting anytime soon. But after a cold one today, another Federal Holiday no less, things will seem average for the next week or so. Congrats to Sam, he officially made the Deans' List at Ohio State-Lima with a 3.9 of a possible 4.0 in his first quarter back(after a 6 years layoff) majoring in Actuarial Science, keep it up Sam! Hal finished the first quarter of his Masters at Wright State with a 4.0...he will get his Masters in High School History Education this Spring, hopefully there will be some jobs out there, but if not, I guess he can drive truck until something pops up....not that he wants to, but its' good to have a back up.

Basketball at Columbus Grove tonight, with Dartball in Rockford to follow.

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Photos-Obama and his Very Rev Racist White, Bush and the 3 biggest assholes that seved as President in my lifetime.


And one more thing....I would be remiss if I didn't mention that you should celebrate the birth of a Great American on this day.....that would be one



GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE...born this day, January 19, 1807.



Who did you think I was talking about?

16 below zero with a 35 below chill factor/"The Thing" (1951)

Those were the stats from this morning....about 8 degrees colder than predicted and a nice 10 degrees colder on the wind chill numbers....

I crawled out of the sack, Patricia and everybody else had school cancelled(cold more so than the icy roads, although they are still bad), and most of the varsity basketball games have been postponed as well. The skies dawned blue and cold, like a .38 police special.....at 2pm it was still sitting a -2 and will stay there or get colder as the day wears on...tomorrow some wind and flurries will bring the temps near 20....which of course will seem much warmer.

First off, I fired up the various vehicles, Sam's being the only one of the 4 not to turn over....I finally put the jumper box on that and got his Dodge cranked up an hour or so ago. Reagan(the Airedale) had a vet appointment at 8 this morning, so I had little choice but to move my sorry butt out of the house. Neither one of us wanted to do that.

I went by frozen Grand Lake about noon, and took a couple of photos...the 13500 acre lake is froze solid....Global Warming? The lake has seldom seen this much ice in the past 25 years...so choke on that Al Gore, you fat lying sack of dung! The same goes for your lemming like legion of followers in the Chicken Little world of faux Global Warming.

"The Thing from Another World"(1951)

Every time we get weather like this, it reminds me of one of my favorite all time movies, the Sci-Fi Classic from the early "Atomic" scare days of the 1950s.

The original "Thing" came out in 1951, and featured a crew of Air Force sky jockeys up near the North Pole, who hooked up with a group of nerds to fight off a survivor from a downed "Flying Saucer".....the lone monster was none other than James Arness in one of his earlier parts...."Matt Dillon" never said a word, and didn't get anywhere top billing, that went to the lone eye candy of the movie, Margaret Sheriden....but it did get Arness his start towards the big time.

The entire movie took place in the frozen tundra of the great northwest somewhere in Alaska....I remember one line in particular after the monster had cut off the heat supply...."Captain, Captain, the temperatures down to 5 degrees"....Scotty, the journalist, wisecracks back, "Next stop, Ten Below".....it's one entertaining show, and even with the monster looking like a giant carrot, it is entertaining as they come, without blood, guts, and nudity. You can buy it on DVD or catch it on Turner Movie Classics on occasion.

With the basketball games getting backed up to do postponements, the Vietnam Security Police mini-reunion, and other goings on, I suspect the next few weeks are going to be quite busy...but our baseball rules meetings start the middle of February, and that can only mean, spring isn't that far off.

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photos--at the top a couple of shots this noon of the frozen 13 thousand acres of Grand Lake.....then from "The Thing"...Robert Cornthwaite, Margaret Sheriden, and Kenneth Tobey discuss matters/The Fly Boys find the Flying Saucer/ and the updated studio poster that says "Starring James Arness as The Thing"...the 6'7" Arness was the thing, but never said a word, and only appears on screen for a few minutes....but he was "the star"--Great movie, and far superior to the 1988 remake.