Poppycock: Death of a Resumé

A thousand points of power.

Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

There are a few in every high school. They vie for class valedictorian, collect honors and awards, and run every school club worth running. Some of them are athletes, rounding out the college applications. They manage both charitable work and part-time jobs. Resting their heads on their pillows after busy, meritorious days, they dream of acceptance letters from elite institutions, the golden tickets to the good life in America.

They get their letters and some go on to lead productive, admirable lives. Some build ostensibly impressive resumés while pursuing prestige, power, and pelf, on the way abandoning principles, idealism, integrity, and honor. Perhaps the holes in their souls are filled by whatever self-satisfied, ego-driven pleasure is derived from the elite’s embrace. Perhaps not. In their waning years, they do have a questionable consolation: imagining the fulsome tributes and eulogies and their lengthy and impressive obituaries when they die.

Last week the gilded resumé set lost a shining exemplar: George Herbert Walker Bush, forty-first President of the United States, forty-third Vice President, a US Representative, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, multi-millionaire founder of an oil company, captain of the Yale baseball team, and an aviator in the US Navy during World War II. Generationally, his resumé stretches backwards and forwards. His father was a successful investment banker and US Senator. One son was the forty-third president, another was governor of Florida.

The alternative media has filled with uncomplimentary articles about Bush. They’re a welcome counterweight to the cloying eulogies in the mainstream media, which is determined to make Bush a statist hero surpassing even the recently lionized John McCain. We’re mourning for an entire week. Financial markets are closed today for Bush’s funeral, which Trump will attend.

Everyone who is anyone in the Deep State, Military, Intelligence, Corporatocracy, Entertainment, Academia, and extortion racket known as Politics and Government will be there. Only a country that’s completely corrupted by the scourge of all-powerful government would put up with this farce. What does it say about a country that not just puts up with it, but embraces it?

Power is what George Herbert Walker Bush and the entire Bush clan craved, sought, and attained. It requires only one episode in Bush’s “illustrious” career to demonstrate what that pursuit did to the man, and what it’s done to his country.

Before Ronald Reagan selected Bush to be his vice president in 1980, the common rap on him was that he didn’t have any defining principles or purpose, what Bush himself later called “the vision thing.” The Church Committee hearings in 1975 had exposed intelligence agency depredations. Bush’s one-year tenure as Director of the Central Agency Intelligence (1976-1977) burnished both his resumé and his image as an opportunistic operative. Most of Reagan’s base was deeply suspicious of Bush.

They were still suspicious eight years later when Bush ran for president. Reagan had made taxes the Republicans’ signature issue, albeit more rhetorically than in reality (he cut taxes, then he raised them). Taxes are everywhere and always the key issue in the political firmament. Ask Emmanuel Macron, the first in what will be a long line of politicians dealing with tax revolts.

When a government has first claim on income and those who earned it are entitled only to a residual—or nothing at all—politics becomes a scabrous scrum, divvying up the loot. There is no middle ground on taxes. You either own your own life and what you produce or the government does. Any “compromise” is the government taking a little less than it wants to take, which is everything.

To allay the suspicions, Bush said, “Read my lips, no new taxes.” Bush had no principled objection to the income tax—nobody in Washington does—but saying he wouldn’t raise them helped him get elected. Bush was pragmatic, Washington-speak for unprincipled. Washington is the world capital of pragmatic. You go nowhere in that cesspool if you’re not pragmatic. Coercive power, its stock in trade, is always unprincipled. When coercion and violence are your means, your announced ends are only mendacious cover for your essential immorality.

Bush reneged on his promise, raising taxes in exchange for the Democrats’ promise to cut spending. He knew better. Reagan had made a deal with them—for each dollar raised in taxes, spending would be cut by two—that was never honored. Bush played Charlie Brown to the Democrats’ football-holding Lucy knowing he’d get the same outcome, which he did. It cost him the 1992 election. Americans chose up-front-about-it grifter Bill Clinton, rejecting the grifter who pretended to be otherwise. The Bush doubters were correct all along: power devoid of principles or purpose.

As the deaths of McCain and Bush sickeningly demonstrate, the devotion to power wins Washington’s highest honors and accolades. It is the root of evil and it has led the US down the path of debt, destruction, death, and ruin. There is no middle ground between freedom and voluntary interaction on the one hand and coercion and violence on the other. To seek the middle ground is to choose the latter.

That is the most important lesson from the life of George Herbert Walker Bush, and the most important thing that can be said upon his death.

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CCRider
CCRider

On the money. Gerald Celente likes to call such flagrant power mongers “White Shoe Boys”. You know the type who run for ‘office’ in high school and ask for homework assignments at the end of the class. Those who can suck up to authority like a Hoover. Bush is the prototype. But what he made a science of was the image he projected to the public-all that kinder, gentler bullshit. Sure when he wasn’t bombing some defenseless innocents, plotting behind the scenes in some palace intrigue or arranging snipers in a political assassination. But the ground is now shifting below their feet. Here’s another chink in the armor:

MSM Is Getting Weirder, More Frantic, And More Desperate By The Day

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Don’t forget the coverups of Iran contra. Bush should have been prosecuted for it, among many others.

Ivan
Ivan

Chink?

Das rayciss

overthecliff
overthecliff

Robert, you, Uncola and HSF continue to give us regular people a lot to think about. Thanks for your articles.

Uncola

My offspring will testify regarding a game we play in our family whereby everyone tries to stump me with words and their definitions.

I told the kids since they were little, that society is stratified by vocabulary; with those at the top commanding the largest percentage of any particular lexicon, and layered downward unto the societal dregs who could barely conjugate a sentence.

pursuing prestige, power, and pelf (& scabrous scrum)

What they can’t do, Gore does. He got me. I had to look up “pelf”.

For the convenience of the other readers, I’d post the meaning in this comment, but they’ll remember it better if they look it up themselves.

Another excellent piece.

Thanks, Robert. (And, additionally, for the awesome alliteration.)

Ignatius J. Reilly
Ignatius J. Reilly

I can’t wait to use pelf somewhere. I’ll try it on the wife, but I’m married to an English major. I bet she know it. Me, I had to look cloying too. I knew it by context, but didn’t know the word.

Great piece Mr. Gore.

Good riddance to another globalist con man.

Uncola

Ignatius says:

…but I’m married to an English major

Words can control or set us free. It’s kind of like the way the right woman will make you and the wrong one will break you.

We must choose carefully; and Gore’s piece provides perspicacious perspective.

wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr

“pelf” … where’s my ROFLMAO Emoticon?
Did I just use two online “words” that aren’t in the OED yet?

Honest Buck
Honest Buck

Speaking of words, Bush preached NAFTA while Perot warned we were getting the SHAFTA. We got fucked while hearing giant sucking sounds.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

From what I read, Perot’s family was threatened by the Bush machine.

Steve C
Steve C

Years ago, my friends and I would play a game that we made up using just a dictionary and a pad of paper.

Each person would take a turn at perusing through the dictionary to find a word that he or she had never heard of.

They would read that word aloud and ask if anybody knew it. If everyone answered no, then they would spell the word and each person would make up their own definition for it and write it on a strip of paper. The person that had picked the word would write the correct definition.

All of the definitions would then be folded and placed in a bowl, mixed up, and drawn one at a time by the person with the dictionary. They would then read them aloud and everyone would vote for which was the correct definition of that word.

The winner was the person that got the most votes for their made-up definition.

It was great fun and we always got to learn new words…

ecliptix543

I’m going to start playing that game with my kids and see if they enjoy it (as much as it sounds like I would).

Tony
Tony

There is an actual game that has this same concept. It is a great deal of fun.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

That was a 1980’s game aptly called dictionary. The brainiacs in our group were great bullshitters and came up with the most convincing of definitions.

Steve C
Steve C

The bastards!

We were playing this game in the early 1970’s.

My friend Pat said he was going to see if he could market it.

Don’t know if he did or not, but I’ve never seen any residuals…

mark
mark

Balderdash!
• Time to grab the “bull” by the horns and hope other players don’t call your bluff!
• Balderdash game features compelling, unbelievably true content and categories include people, words, initials, and movies
• Make up phony definitions to read alongside the real answers
• How well can you fake it? Score points when you do and when you can call other players’ bluffs
• Hilarious party favorite game includes clue cards, game board, movers, die, and instructions

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=bolderdash+game&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=78683854649823&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_13518j8isq_e

Suds
Suds

We might need to reposition the fence lines ’round here.
The common ground areas are growing larger, or at least more popular.
Scrabble is another good user of word precision.
If HSF, Uncola, and Bob get into a three way vocabulary dance marathon, I could burn hours of time impeding an ability to keep up, stopping to research meanings.
But, I’ll learn. And enjoy it, too.
Let’s get ready to RUMBLE…..

I might need to start keeping a dictionary in multiple locations, just like the 6+ sets of reading glasses. . . 1 in each car, 1 in the bathroom, 1 at the home desk, office desk, 1 on the bedroom nightstand.
That, or save Wiki-Dictionary as a saved link in all electronic web device toolbars.

Uncola

I used to put down whatever book I was reading, get out the dictionary, and look up any unknown words. Now, on any given device, just highlight the word and a menu appears, hit “search web” and see the word’s meaning. Not only that, you can hit the audio button and hear the correct pronunciation. I can honestly say the internet has made me more smarter.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Likewise

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

“more smarter?” LOL. Now you just need the equivalent for grammar.

Uncola

Or the internet made me more funnier too 🙂

meg
meg

Sometimes the internet just makes me think things are funny.

meg
meg

There’s a few grammar pickers here.

meg
meg

And, more grammatically acceptable to some folks obsessed with that sort of thing. Personally, I’ve come to hate auto-correct because sometimes the word you are looking for doesn’t exist in the dictionary.

If you fold a square corner to corner, the hypotenuse of the now-right triangle will be the C of c-squared Pythagorean fame. But a discussion of the theorem most likely to apply to any and all research topics, including a lot of social science studies/projects, is not my intent.

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What I wanted to point out is how interesting perspective can be: What is seen in the now-folded post-it note (is what I have on my ottoman as a viz aid) is not a, b and c. I have a little half-block that has been cut on the diangle. And there’s no such word.

Yet, it is exactly what the ancient seamstress said. And it was what she MEANT. Cut on the Diangle. A word discovered in an ancient quilter’s discussion of cutting technique.

So, yes… it is quite lovely to expand your vocabulary and improve your wit by finding the correct word in an online search.

More and more, though, I find that the EXACT word does not exist online.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

more smarter, yeah surre

javelin
javelin

Uncola–I got your jest in self-idiom quickly. It seems many missed your self barbing.

wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr

I seem to use thesaurus.com almost every day because the dictionary is boring.
Interesting that “Loot” and “Lucre” (and their connotations) came up first.

Mary Christine

“My offspring”

You keep using that word. I know that it means what you think it means so I won’t go there. It’s just that Offspring songs keep popping into my head every time you use it. I think Mr Bush needs a funeral song and while this one is not my favorite, I think it’s appropriate.

Unspoken
Unspoken

I think it’s because as soon as ‘ya get off they spring to life.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

How long would Poppy have lasted in office if one of his good friends was a BILLIONAIRE PEDOPHILE who just FOLDED IN COURT YESTERDAY and agreed to pay millions more to additional victims.

Wouldn’t the public have expected Poppy to order his [unconfirmed temp] AG to invalidate the already grossly invalid non-prosecution agreement- and criminally prosecute the PEDOPHILE and investigate all of his associates, even if that associate was HIMSELF?

Old Shoe

There’s a picture of Bush during WWII being rescued by a sub after being “shot down” during a bombing run on Taka Jima. I always found that suspect and frankly, felt it was choreographed to bolster his future political ambitions. As if another plane could make a low pass over the sub and snap a picture in the middle of an ongoing mission. Too clever by half.

Prusmc
Prusmc

IF I rember correctly, the photo was taken by a crew member of the sub and it was an 8 MM film. I don’t believe that an airphoto at that time could have provided the kind of resolution that the image had.
I was not a fan of Poppy and wished I had voted “Ross for Boss” in 92.
BTW, who were the WW II heros: Kennedy who rescued a sailor after JFK had engaged in a reckless mission, against orders, and whose willful negligence caused the Japanese destroyer to cut PT 109 in half? LBJ who was repeatedly awarded a Silver Star for being a passenger on a transport not attacked by zeros (only person on two planes decorated)? Emmit Till’s father? Bob Dole who spent over two years in VA hospitals, never fully recovering from wounds while fighting in Italy? The Marine wireman who was later identified as an Iwo Jima flag raiser and was told you were a hero, he said, NO I was a Marine?

ecliptix543

One of my grandfathers was a Marine on Iwo Jima. I have his Purple Heart on my mantle right now. And I have the Jap rifle he captured in my safe, loaded.

Old Shoe

You could be right. My failing memory remembers that picture taken from above and looking down at Bush. If interested would suggest “Flags Of Our Fathers” by James Bradley. A very gritty, factual account of the Marines on the ground at Iwo. Guaranteed to break your heart. Semper Fi.

Old Shoe

Checked it out. You were right. I was wrong. My apologies to the board for posting erroneous information.

subwo
subwo

My dad was with the flag raising outfit and I saw his image in the lower left in front of first flag raised at time 25:00 of “Shooting Iwo Jima” film. Corpsmen also carried weapons as my father sent me an email responding to my purchasing a .45 1911. He said that Doc Bradley had loaned him his once.
I thought when the news came out from the Omaha armchair historians that it couldn’t have been Bradley because of what was hanging on the belt. It could have been hand clippers as my dad, a corpsman, said that corpsmen had to remove hair from head wounds. The were also the barbers in their companies in order to keep their hand shear skills up to speed. OR..A navy PR man in the war department said that the bond drive would bring in more money with a sailor flag raiser too. Doc Bradley is ordered to keep his yap shut forever and he gets a navy cross. My dad is in the Rosenthal photo shot 3 March 45 of 3 marines receiving communion. Dad is looking at camera with his hands in his dungaree pockets (Ira Hayes to his right).

Old Shoe

My old man was 82nd Airborne. Your post bought tears to my eyes. God bless your dad. My old man died in ’15 at the age of 94. When he died he didn’t know who he was. I’m thankful for that. Had he seen today’s America, I’m sure it would have crushed him.

subwo
subwo

Thanks Shoe,
Our dads were cut from different stuff than us kids were. But they grew up in rough times. My dad died in ’11. He had cancer in 2000 that took his tongue and larynx. He hung on getting fed through a tube into the stomach as he was my mom’s support. He spent the last couple of years in a hospital bed in the family room. Hospice had to be renewed 3 times. Cancer finally got him. I watched as my mom’s care over him became routine like another household chore. I was watching over him the night before he passed. He wanted to get up out of bed but I made him stay. In hindsight I think he wanted to die standing up.
Google ” Kessel Narimasu”.

Suds
Suds

book: “Flyboys”. A disturbing, but informative, good read.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Good article, Robert. My vote for Clinton in 1992 was one of the few times in my life voting for a demonrat. I’d voted for Poppy in ’88 and Raygun in ’84. I’d have voted for Buchanan in ’92 if he had wrested the nomination away from Bush. On balance, my vote for Clinton was probably a mistake. He gave us Ginsburg and Breyer. (Of course, Bush gave us Souter, so…) What pushed me over to Clinton at the last minute – literally on Election Day – was not Bush’s breaking his pledge on taxes. (I had no income to speak of back then.) It was the unseemly way he basked in the glory of pushing Saddam out of Kuwait. Even if you concede the necessity of “liberating” Kuwait – after his ambassador April Glaspie had practically given Saddam permission to invade – Bush should have at least exhibited some chagrin about the whole affair. Instead, he went around crowing like he had when he’d “kicked a little ass” against Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. The worst thing was the “Highway of Death”. I don’t lose any sleep about the death of Muslims generally, but it matters more if we’re the ones doing the killing. Saddam conscripted a bunch of teenagers and left them in the desert for shooting practice for the Americans and to be bulldozed into trench graves. Killing them to “liberate” Kuwait (turning it back over to their monarchs) might have been necessary, but bombing the remaining conscripts as they fled back to Baghdad was gratuitous and unnecessary. I didn’t vote for Bill Clinton. I voted against Bush.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

You could have voted for Ron Paul on the libertarian side in 88 and there were Libertarians that still held to principles in all the other elections you mentioned. It has NEVER always been a choice just between dumb and dumber.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

I did vote for Ron Paul in that election. I’m a Libertarian after all.

Steve C
Steve C

I was the chairman of the Western NY Libertarian Party and was a delegate at the Libertarian National Convention in Seattle when we nominated Ron Paul.

Actually, he was my third choice.

I went to support my old friend the late Jim Lewis. When Jim lost in the first round, I voted for American Indian Russell Means.

Ron won in the third round not the first as it reads on Wikipedia and he turned out to be the best candidate. I moved to Texas during the course of that campaign and was at Ron’s party in Houston on election night. It was a bad loss, but a great party.

I was the last one to see him that night because I went up to him as he and his wife Carol were leaving the hotel and in front of a few TV camera’s I addressed him as ‘Mr. President’ and thanked him for all that he did for us. The TV crews were all laughing.

His running mate, Andre Marrou, stayed at my house when he stopped in Buffalo, NY earlier in the campaign. I had set up a number of TV and radio interviews for him over a few days and was initially embarrassed when half of them were abruptly cancelled without any explanation when we arrived.

Andre was impressed with my percentage though. He said he was getting about a 90% cancellation rate in other cities. He told me I did good…

What passes for a news media in this country has been ‘fake news’ for a long time…

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

That’s wonderful. More and more Libertarians is what we need. Glad you are one as well.

RiNS

Political Firmament.
Whatta great image..
Those people exist
in a world apart from us….
A world marking days.
Proffering fools
Trading the praise.
To those in charge
Its only a stage
For the rest of us
Our souls
are their barter.
And food to be fed
to their machine.
Its a world remiss
They laugh at us
With eyes of a cat
They are black and white
Most blind to their stripes
To know they are not clean
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Genesis 1:14 NIV
And God said,
“Let there be lights in the vault of the sky
to separate the day from the night,
and let them serve as signs
to mark sacred times,
and days and years,

Great bit Robert!

Here is a great song for a fourth turning..
knowing for the last time
if they are evil or divine…
maybe folks are right.
And we are…
The last in Line

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Dio… another product of New Hampshire!

RiNS

Great stuff… just like the syrup!

javelin
javelin

The guitar solo at around the 2:55 mark is pretty impressive……..RJD R.I.P.

Administrator

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22winmag - Discharged in 1993 those were the days
22winmag - Discharged in 1993 those were the days

Another great article on this much esteemed blog.

I was discharged in 1993 (five months after Clinton succeeded Poppy) and we had colored Muslim agitators in combat roles back then, not shitting you.

The Army also got unlimited sex and drugs in 1992 under Poppy.

Overnight you had females gangbang fucking in the barracks in Germany and Korea… and more drug use and liberties for all of the lower ranks and riff raff. I should know. I was there.

NOT A WAY TO BUILD A MORE EFFECTIVE MILITARY

https://newspaperarchive.com/european-stars-and-stripes-jan-07-1992-p-12/

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

I was there as well but I never participated in any of the activities involving our female troops as I did not want to catch a disease. I was always man enough to go find some tail among the locals regardless of where I was.

Correction – that was not always true. Finding females in rural Alabama was a challenge. I strongly suspect that any female over the age of 14 was either married or locked in a bunker somewhere. I did, though, like their fully nude bring your own shine in a barn strip clubs that they had. Never saw anything like it – not even in Amsterdam.

Mary Christine

Oh, admin! That is the stuff of nightmares!

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

I get the idea you don’t like Papi Bush.

GrandPa
GrandPa

Bravo.

wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr

Second-hander. Social metaphysician. Peter Keating.
That zero point at the convergence of opposing forces?

Why does everyone equate the views of “we the people” with the Chattering Classes’ bafflegab? Are they the ONLY voice in our alleged “culture”? Do they make history itself just by prattling their paid propaganda? Where is the voice of that Silent Majority?

Stucky

This is what all the hoopla is about today ….. Democraps love Republicans …. once they are dead.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I heard Trump spoke at the funeral after all. He said George HW is very low energy.

Steve C
Steve C

This is how I will always remember that rotten sob George H Bush – barfing on the Japanese Prime Minister in 1992.

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I always figured that he must have strayed a bit off the reservation as they say and the deep state gave him a taste of what was supposedly one of his personal favorite methods of assassination – sodium morphate. Not enough to kill him, but enough to remind him of who is in charge…

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

He barfed on himself at the Japanese state dinner. Stop making up stories.
That and the shoe throwing scene were the best parts of the Bush Administrations.

Steve C
Steve C

I liked the shoe throwing too, but it missed,

He did manage to spray the Japanese PM though…

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Japanese played the vid over and over. He threw up in a delicate manner, into his mouth and then some was expelled. You could see he was in distress just before spitting up and sinking into his chair. This video does not show that scene. The reporter says he had been plauged with nausea all day. At the time they said he had travelers fatigue. I think he couldn’t handle sushi.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Great comments as always.

Not exactly on the subject, but did anyone else, upon seeing the photo/footage of Bob Dole rising from his wheelchair to salute Bush’s coffin yesterday, immediately think of the scene in Dr. Strangelove when he gives the Nazi salute, inexplicably rises from his wheelchair, and cries out “Mein Fuhrer, I can walk?”

Just me???

Administrator
Word to the Wise
Word to the Wise

For years and years the key phrase at voting time was “I’m voting for the lesser of two evils!” So we knew then of the evil that pervaded politics in this country…and the evil becomes more and more evil as time marches on. We haven’t seen anything yet!

May our Heavenly Father, by His Holy Spirit, give us the wisdom, insight, enlightenment and revelation to know the good from the evil and give us the discernment and the will to live righteously by His eternal Commandments as if this is our last day on this earth.
Only He with Whom we have to do holds our last breath in His hands.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

The Bush war mongering is no different than any of the swamp creatures . I once believed in America and the use of military as a defined force for doing the right thing around the world , it is not ! All those promoting these wars and actions seem to be the only ones truly benefiting from the cash cow that is the weapons industry . The base of the Bush fortune was made building the war machinery of the Third Reich . As for that thousand points of light nonsense it came from a map showing homeless shelters around the US with reflective tacks . The Richie Rich politicians are all the same club members . They don’t give a fuck about you your children our military veterans nothing . Yes I know many wore the uniform and served with distinction , pity they forgot who they were to serve when elected .

Word to the Wise
Word to the Wise

The elite finance both sides of all wars!! Glad people are finally waking up to the truth of it all. I think it has to be a tragically rude awakening to those who honorable served this nation against perceived “enemies” on foreign soil and find out it was all a money-making sham for the political well-healed at the top of the food chain.
One day any nation are our “enemies” the next day they are our friends!!

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There are so many homeless veteran’s, and many who do not have enough money – that was promised to them – who are living in poverty. And bare subsistence. Especially our Viet Nam veteran’s who have gotten the short shrift.

I used to say “Thank you for your service, sir” to those who proudly wear their military hats as a badge of honor. Truthfully, I can no longer choke those words out anymore. My dad and uncles were in WW2 and thankfully all came home.

PlatoPlubius

Word to the wise said,

I think it has to be a tragically rude awakening to those who honorable served this nation against perceived “enemies” on foreign soil and find out it was all a money-making sham for the political well-healed at the top of the food chain.

This might explain why we are losing more veterans and soldiers to suicide than to the actual battles…

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Word to the Wise
Word to the Wise

Sadly, I agree. They go into into the military with a much different opinion then when they come out and come home and there is simply a nation in shambles awaiting them. And the nation and Constitution they were taught to fight for is almost a thing of the past.

There was a TV news report a few years ago = in Pasadena, California there is a very historical bridge. Many young war returnees started jumping from that bridge to commit suicide. Several older men who had served in Iraq, and other countries were taking shifts, walking across that bridge every day to talk with these desperate young soldiers to talk them out of killing themselves. The physical and mental ravages of war on the human psyche is way out of the norm and is abhorrent.

Our country has betrayed our young and able for generations. And one day what we have done to others will be done to us. What goes around comes around. We WILL pay dearly for the blood we have on our hands, make no mistake about that.

gatsby1219
gatsby1219

“I can no longer choke those words out anymore”

No worries, I served to protect your 1st A….even stupid shit on the internet….

Mary Christine

Nice eulogy, short and..well honest. Unlike the hypocritical drivel you will hear all day today no matter where you turn. I didn’t get a chance to comment on your “Deadliest Operation” essay but I really enjoyed it, as well.

Ruso Paisa
Ruso Paisa

It seems like the perfect occasion for Trump to go play golf and watch the fireworks explode!

PlatoPlubius

Or re insert both feet into his mouth.

Big Dick
Big Dick

Who gives a rats ass that another piece of shit has fallen into the bottom of the port a potty? May he and Mc Stain rest I mean burn in hell with all the people they killed pissing on them from above. We cherish the day that his idiot son follows them along with both Clintons!

icutrauma11
icutrauma11

Yup , and all the platitudes will continue with Darth Cheney.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Hopefully, we shall outlive him. He is a reptilian and look how long the dinosaurs lived, thousands of years.

Oracle of Christ aka Holy Spirit
Oracle of Christ aka Holy Spirit

Trade Truce Over? Canada Arrests Huawei CFO At US Request

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-05/trade-truce-over-canada-arrests-hyawei-cfo-us-request

My two cents….

Trudeau with the US Cabal planned the arrests Huawei CFO At OBAMA request the judge in New York let me guess a liberal right? President Trump just got served another curve ball the first the complete shut down of the US government for corrupt serial killer Bush the architect of the New World Order also where was Bush when Kennedy was murdered anyways???

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoRprPRWsAA4y_K?format=jpg

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Bush video must watch – laughing at Kennedy being murdered….

John
John

So important that we, as Christians, understand the spiritual realm. Very important in spiritual warfare. Many issues occur in the spiritual realm. Remember, Jesus used God’s word to defeat the devil in the wilderness. The devil had to leave for a season.
Be in God’s word daily!

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Bush’s singular ‘achievement’, the expulsion of Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait, wasn’t really even his. It was Margaret Thatcher’s for, in the run up to the military conflict, Thatcher said to Bush “Don’t go wobbly on me George” as Bush floundered about looking for a more ‘pragmatic’ solution to as clear cut a case of military aggression since Poland in 1939!

Even then this tall turkey of man put a 100 hour ‘time limit’ on his own generals leaving Iraq’s army intact and a festering geopolitical sore that ruined his son’s presidency.

How I would have loved someone to have thrown Thatcher’s quote right back into the wobbly faces of Dubya, Jeb and the rest of the Bush clan during yesterday’s grotesque spectacle.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Robert…perhaps in the next article you write it could contain my favorite line by the grifter Spiro Agnew “nattering nabob of negativism”…alliteration and humor .

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

My stepson worked with the White House during Bush Daddy’s first year in office as a communication technician via his attachment to the Air Force . He said a couple of things about his time there.
1) Dan Quayle really was an idiot an damn near killed a Secret Service agent on a quail hunt…just like Cheney did to a friend.
2) That Barbara Bush was very kind to them,she looked out for everyone in the crew like a Grandma would do…always asking if they needed anything and on several occasions making sandwiches for them .
3) That Bush daddy…was a dick .

Word to the Wise
Word to the Wise

The Almighty tells us mercy comes before judgment. This man Bush and all others of his kind WILL be judged for his every deed and thought. As all of humanity will be. As I see it we are well into the Almighty’s judgment and He is still yet merciful in our UN-deservative-ness.

14 “…..and 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, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.…”
2 Chronicles 2:14

And still at this very late hour He beseeches us to repent and seek Him with all our heart, mind and soul…….but not for much longer!

igor
igor

I always found it odd that a lowly warehouse worker named Lee and his wife Marina ran in some of the same social circles as George H.W. Bush’s close friend George de Mohrenschildt. Mohrenschildt was a rich Texas oilman and CIA buddy of Bush.
Later in the 70’s The House Committee on Assassinations wanted to meet with him on the Kennedy shooting, calling him an important witness. The next day he was found dead of an apparent suicide, according to police and the county coroner.
Probably the same type of suicide that killed Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen.

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