Progressives in Charge

ROBERT GREEN INGERSOL. He was a lawyer and lived 1833-1899.

I will not attack your doctrines or your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous...if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

PROGRESSIVES IN CHARGE

I was born in the great USA

With a promise of liberty

Unfortunately I failed to realize

Freedom can be vandalized

It can too often be undermined

By voters of the ignorant kind

The apathetic and misinformed

They contribute to a country torn

Original thought is frowned upon

They took our ideals and banned our guns

They stole our souls and muddied our minds

Transparency? No, now we're blind

Doubt in our leaders becomes a crime

More forced to live on government's dime

We've lost our face in foreign lands

And we are forced to bow to their demands

Candidates spouting hopeful lies

Are American patriots in disguise

Backed by Socialists with pockets deep

Promise to provide our bed and keep

They swear that the rich owes our existence

The lazy offer little resistence

Too many seek the easy road

And accept the socialists lies as told

Our Republic was grown on blood and sweat

Open to opportunities for all to get

Hope has been traded for a welfare state

And our liberty is now at stake

Diminishing success has come our way

The government's growing day by day

Patriotic songs cannot be sung

Our legacy is dead and gone

Grace

Of all of the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier and grateful people are more morally decent.

GRACE

Selfishness will rot your soul

So I am told

Selflessness is a characteristic

Worth it's weight in gold

Loathing is an acid

That burns you from inside

Loving is an attraction

You'd never want to hide

Hate is an emotion

Of judgements deem unjust

Respect is much preferred

Than to live with bitter mistrust

Chaos brings your kingdom down

No one runs to you with aide

Harmony brings true friendship

Your dues are always paid

Greed may bring you assets

That you never want to share

Charity gives you that feeling

Of forever answered prayer

The unthankful live in loneliness

For entitlements they think they earn

The grateful live as self assured

Taking heed of lessons learned

Perspective

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes ever perplexed by, how much I have been spared.

PERSPECTIVE

I've lost friends and jobs and money for sure

I've broken mirrors and crashed a car

I have loved and lost and loved again

I've traveled near but not too far

I've been audited and charged too much

And I have suffered financial strife

But all this is so miniscule

When you visit another's life

They have seen the suffering of people they love

From cancer and other disease

The cars they crashed caused injury

Their audits proved deceptive and had their assets seized

The love of their life had cheated

And kept them from their kids

They mourn the one they lost so young

To a malady known as SIDS

There are those who have lost possessions

When hurricanes took the home they shared

And the devastation divided them

From anyone who cared

When I see how others have suffered

And have managed to bounce back

The insignificance of my self proclaimed tragedies

Makes it easier to adapt

I have become forever grateful

For blessing too many to count

And live with hope and pray for those

Who have futures full of doubt

Showing

JFK:

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

SHOWING

As I am grateful for the blue skies that cover my best times

As a ceiling to my paradise

I relish the rain for it freshens my meadows

I awaken to a blazing sun and rise

The winds move through to dry the dew and cool me

My friends gather with me for camaraderie

My family's always close in some sort of way

I appreciate it all abundantly

I live my life for the love of nature

I walk the paths pointed by God's sign

I'm thankful and I show it by being someone who

My actions are righteous by design

WHO YOU ARE

The quote is from Lord Acton. (1834-1902)

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

WHO YOU ARE

Think and say it

Change your mind

Believe it or not

Accept, decline

Be couth or not

In or out of place

Appease or mock

Define your taste

Be whatever

Warm or cold

But be true forever

To your moral code

The Easy Way

The path of the least resistance is the path of the loser.

H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

THE EASY WAY

Yes, you may get there sooner than most

What have you missed by speeding through your life?

Just seeing the rest of us straggling in may make you boast

You laugh at the barriers along the way that caused us strife

But on your limited access highway, what have you seen?

Who have you touched along the way?

Does it really matter to you the lack of places you have been?

Didn't you ever want to linger somewhere one day?

Was it really to your benefit not to be weighed down?

Most obstacles build character, who are you?

Whatever was before you, you found your way around

Avoidance was your purpose in everything you'd do

I may have finished later having relationships to bear

The obstacles were challenges of interest to me

I would rather have loved and lost than to never have cared

You may have finished first but I passed the test, you see.

The easy way ain't the best way if you want to be  someone

What you see each time around the block gets more intense

The long way ain't the worse way if you want to get things done

I'd never have survived with no suspense

It Is Treason!

The quote is from Napoleon Bonaparte, another dictator... (1761-1821) I think these words of Napoleon could actually be what Ahmadinejad might be saying because of his “sweet” deal with Obama.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

IT IS TREASON!

In all Obama has said and done

The most destructive days have now begun

A most dangerous step he now has taken

With the country who actually calls us Satan

He shook hands with a man most vile

To limit him for the littlest while

It will open the future to devastation

That could lead us all to desolation

Of all Obama's destructive political acts

This one may be impossible to counteract

He has made us and our allies targets to be

In front of all the world to see

They may cover up his domestic schemes

And whittle our country's self esteem

But now he is sleeping with a terrorist supreme

It is an act of treason by any means

Grace is not a Little Ditty

GRACE IS NOT A LITTLE DITTY

Grace is not a little song

To sing when you feel needy

It is not the excuse for wrong

Or what to lift when you need pity

It's the way of life you are expected to embrace

Not moments of embarrassment you feel are unfair

It is forgiveness, tolerance, and show of faith

Grace is the humility you are expected to share

Imperfection

Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

IMPERFECTION

The innocent youth that was my foundation

Had not the strength to keep me pure

It comes to prove with each child's creation

Circumstances makes that innocence more and more obscure

I was not to grow into a perfect being

I rejected some things that we're vital in some respect

As I looked ahead I was clearly not seeing

What I should have embraced, what I failed to reject

It took too many years to accept the flaws

That marred my person but grew my character

Nature itself has its blame in the cause

That leads to perfection's barrier

It is in maturity I now understand

That to shed the flaws that do me harm

I must display the good to countermand

What the serpent impressed on me with his charm

By the Grace of God

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace...only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. (Anne Lamott)

BY THE GRACE OF GOD

Whatever it was that happened that day

It was the grace of God that came my way

In all I hoped and what I feared

His tolerance and forgiveness he so easily shared

In the little faith I held before

God still found me behind the skeptic's door

He lifted me up until I was steady

And stood by me until I was ready

What He left that day is hard to describe

But what I left behind was foolish pride

Now grateful pride will follow me forever

And the Grace of God shall leave me never

The State of Grace

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. (Aristotle)

THE STATE OF GRACE

Family, friends, life itself are what are known as typical blessings

Happiness, health, love, of course are a welcome second helping

Children, wealth, longevity are a bonus to those who qualify

Politeness, generosity, tolerance forgiveness is our key to harmony

Loneliness, disease, and a span of pitfalls are the tragedies we all must fear

Loss and suffering may come our way and it is oh so hard to bear

The spirit, love and mercy from God are the lift that help us cope

It's the grace of thanks and the need for others that is our only hope

Lies Uncovered

LIES UNCOVERED

It is almost laughable what politicians say

With their definition of transparency.

They state what should be flushed away

Hoping you believe the lies another day.

They think you will accept all they spout as fact

Because you believe who you elect

The lies are oh so neatly stacked

And thought as truth in some respect

But respect is soon to be their loss

As truth bubbles to the surface

People will realize they
have been double crossed

And what was said was far from earnest

The lies uncovered stink like death

Aren't we amazed that we believed them?

This administration exhaled them with every breath

And we accepted as we breathed them

Transparency Part Deux

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

TRANSPARENCY PART DEUX

Transparency is a fallacy

In this administration

It's really quite a fantasy

Of Obamas own creation

Look into his eyes

They appear to be quite dead

His mouth dispenses lies

In most everything that's said

His mirror tells him he is amazing

But his window is completely frosted

His media keeps praising him

Obama can't be trusted

The only thing transparent

In the Obama administration

Is it's becoming quite apparent

Truth is lost in his translation

TRANSPARENCY?

TRANSPARENCY?

Didn't he once say

Could be more than that

"Our whole philosophy is one of transparency."

Another promise that fell flat

I heard his lips distinctly

"If you like your policy keep it"

Another sign of dishonesty

If it's a lie he is sure to speak it

He lied about Benghazi

Is Bin Laden really dead

His hot air blows quite gusty

On everything that's said

The troops are coming home

We have no need to spy on you

Fast and furiously guns have flown

Of course he never knew

If Obama's glass is transparent

The frost is very thick

It has become to me apparent

This president's mind is sick

As We Critisize the Constitution

JFK...

There are so many people in the world who really don’t understand or say they don’t.....what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world? Let them come to Berlin!

AS WE CRITISIZE THE CONSTITUTION

What is not to understand?

They complain daily of our chosen land

Change is what is in demand

While their heads are firmly in the sand?

Freedom has been a promise

For every Constitutionalist

Yet we elect the most dishonest

And have tyranny upon us

We will question every trend

Success we've yet to comprehend

Entitlements they will now defend

Go, my friends, and view Berlin

Ask Not

John Fitzgerald Kennedy which he said in 1960, the year he became President.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier...the frontier of the 1960’s...a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils...a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

ASK NOT

Let us look into a vision

Through the eyes of JFK

The new frontier he faced

With the games that people play

The fifties were behind him

Ozzie and Harriet, Rock & Roll

The space race was emerging

USSR had lost control

TVs in the classrooms

To watch the rockets soar

Missiles down in Cuba

Threats of nuclear war

His presidency held hope

We asked not what he could do

What the people could contribute

Was specifically Kennedy's view

With 1000 days behind him

He had enemies and friends

Shots rang out in Dallas

And his vision was doomed to end

The people who lived in the sixties

Were to be forever inclined

To relive those days in November

Embedded deeply in their minds

A Letter to Outer Space

C.S. LEWIS, born November 29, 1898 & died November 22, 1963.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from earth to spread its inequity elsewhere.

THE LETTER TO OUTER SPACE

Be safe my fellow planets

And reject the lunacy

Never take for granted

What Earth had come to be

Learn from mistakes our people made

Run, run, run from social justice

We spread these warnings in friendship

Heed them and in them trust us

Keep your planet free, my friends

Learn from Earth's mistakes

Control the men in politics

With forever what it takes

The Dictator

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Adolf Hitler

THE DICTATOR

Take your seat upon the throne

Look down upon your minions

Demoralize these common drones

Step on their opinions

Wreak terror on your people

Keep them frozen in fear

Chop down their church and steeple

Equalize their peers

Sabotage the economy

Inflate the mighty dollar

Prepare a low class colony

Call them racist if they holler

Assassinate those you ordered

To cover up your deeds

Tax their every quarter

Regulate them 'til they bleed

Continue to convince the masses

You will provide their every need

Just keep them on their asses

As a dictator now you lead

The Words of Lincoln

In July 1963 President Kennedy said this on the grounds of Gettysburg:

Five score years ago the ground on which we stand shuddered under the clash of arms and was consecrated for all time by the blood of American manhood. Abraham Lincoln, in dedicating this great battlefield, has expressed in words too eloquent to paraphrase or summary, why the sacrifice was necessary.

THE WORDS OF LINCOLN

The words of Lincoln

From his heart they came

One man who for his country, he shivered with pride

I can see his hands shaking and feel his heart beating

As he lamented for liberty and the cost of who died

This speech as told in Gettysburg

Has always held We the People at pause

Even students in tender years

Were left entirely consumed with the cause

The battle field has ghosts of brave soldiers who stayed

Bemoaning the now unseen blood that was shed

So many lives and limbs had been paid

All we have now are the words Lincoln said

The Gettysburg address is his gift for all time

Pertaining so much to what  is meant to be free

The liberty and treasure that's now yours and mine

Are from the most unselfish war in our history

REMEMBERING

Lincoln said this:

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

REMEMBERING

Much can be said about history making

And how wars were ended in celebration

Confetti on the streets and Champaign drinking

The victors toasting our growing nation

Stories are told that lose their accuracy

Time fades the excitement and pride

But memories of liberty revives our tenacity

What was done there isn't easy to hide

The Freakish Storm

THE FREAKISH STORM

Our last warm autumn day has ended in a production

And Mother Nature is the writer and director

It began with a most thunderous eruption

With winds out to prove they're a factor

The light show amazed the most seasoned storm chasers

And trees braced themselves with all of their might

Children found mother, shivered and embraced her

While father readied the shelter for the night

The thunder continued to grow in crescendo

The rain pounded the earth to submission

The wind decided to dance in a circle

And found power from the straight line transition

It roared as it twirled

Wreaked destruction as it whirled

The village grew dark in the storm

The thunder it crashed

With the lightening that flashed

Leaving debris of our homes now deformed

As the chaos moved out to punish the countryside

We settled in to the cold taste of November

A spring storm had sprung in the autumn this time

Making sure that we all would remember

STEPPING IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME

David Bryne said this about filling in the dots:

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

STEPPING IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME

We are born with a clean slate

In which our aspirations are applied

Some call the end our fate

But our destiny is implied

Our choice in every matter

Is another step inside a print

Of one that walked ahead of us

To follow is our intent

The person at the end of life

Is as intentional as it gets

You can leave this world smiling

Or fretting with regrets

The Seasons of Life

THE SEASONS OF LIFE

I burst into spring all fresh and new

With the rain and the sun, this baby, I grew

I sprinted into summer armed with grand expectations

Found my life's highway and formed my relations

I stepped into autumn having discovered my pace

I lived and I loved and my problems I faced

Reluctantly I was dragged into the winter of my fate

Tying up loose ends before it's to late

Just before spring to Lord Jesus I'd go

Trusting what I left behind helps another one grow

The seasons of life through which I had driven

Was hopefully productive and what was wrong is forgiven

The trails I blazed were paved with my soul and my heart

Here's hoping that highway is a good place to start

WE WRITE OUR OWN WAY

David Bryne said this about filling in the dots:

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

WE WRITE OUR OWN WAY

With pencil in hand

Our journey begins

Where the dots, there they stand

Start from where we have been

Connecting the dots

There on the page

Is the path that we've got

And the future we engage

The picture it shows

Which goes on with a purpose

Is the path that we chose

Be it just safe or tremendous

THE ART OF LIFE

Steve Jobs said:

You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something....your gut, destiny, life, karma, or whatever. This approach has never let me down and has made all the difference in my life.

THE ART IF LIFE

The only absolute is where we have been

What we have done

Who we have known

The only tomorrow's we'll have

Is our knowledge and our trust

Our hope and our destiny

And the direction we've grown

Our portrait is our past

Yet our sculpture goes on

Changes can be chiseled

Even in life set in stone

YOUR TRUSTY REPORTER

FACTS: A true piece of information

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert Chesterton

Writer/Poet/Theologian

1874-1936

YOUR TRUSTY REPORTER

I am your trusty reporter

The story is what I seek

But at times I might embellish

The news I'm paid to speak

There is never much real interest

In facts that turn out bland

So I stir into my story some fantasy

Lies seem to be in demand

It was never my intention

To stretch and mold the facts

But the truth is often boring

So I report it inexact

IN NEWS WE TRUST

This quote is from William Tecumseh Sherman who was a General in the Union army during the Civil War.

I hate newspapermen. They come into the camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

IN NEWS WE TRUST

The media are voyeurs

Paid to skulk in others' lives

Supposedly fact finders

Theirs lies can cut like knives

If the facts do not inspire

The readers they entice

They put a pot of half truths on the fire

And add their lies like spice

Endless Knowledge

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Robert E. Lee

Ted Otto, the old man who boarded my first horse, once told me..."You can't call yourself a horseman until you can admit you never will know all there is to learn about horses."

That advice has stayed with me to this very day.

You may be smart and well informed, but if you rely only on the knowledge you have attained up to this day, you may be passing on the opportunity to learn something that may cause you to be the one to cure cancer.

Forgetting One Detail

I have been up to see congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my army is starving. Robert E. Lee

FORGETTING ONE DETAIL

As the bombs go off around us

And we are pinned down amid the fire

Our stomachs are drawn and growling

And sleep is not an option

At home in Congress they smoke cigars

Celebrating more laws to burden our liberty

Never remembering for a moment

They should be finding a way to bring us home

Smooth

The following quote is from General Douglas MacArthur. He lived 1880-1964 and was the best known military leader of WW2.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. Americans never quit!

SMOOTH

As age wrinkles the body

And quitting wrinkles the soul

It takes a special kind of people

To not let adversity take its toll

We have that as Americans

Who are as special as it gets

There is not a wrinkle to be found

Because Americans never quit

Are American Veterans to be our saviors?

I would venture to say that Obama's biggest fear is the veterans who are still willing to die for the flag and the constitution. Janet Napalatano has already stated that fact. Believe me, he will go against a force like he has never known if he tries to pull a Hitler maneuver. That's about all I should say on that subject...The Tea Party is one thing...The American Veteran is quite another so combine the two and look out. I sure hope it's not necessary.  JTD

Instead of extreme means...

But now because of the infamous Obamacare, even a lot of the Dems are turning against him. Hopefully more and more people will understand what he is really all about.  S.K. 11/13/03

We can only hope that Obama's signature legislation will be what cripples his socialistic machine.  The threat of losing their cushy seats and ample salary and benefits are moving more and more far left liberals to the right.

This country needs the balance of Conservatism and Liberalism...we can better do with very little of the extremes of each.

The right mixture of God and country with hope and charity could put us back on a positive path and restore our world standing. And a grandly increased education in our true history would go a long way towards reinstalling the American pride that has been seriously lacking in the past fifty years if progressive politics. M. Beatty 11/13/03

Is Civil War our inclination?

OBAMA RISKS A DOMESTIC MILITARY INTERVENTION:

Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible. John L. Perry, pre 2012

Armed citizens against this government is sadly but fortunately not a preferred option. We should not as a modern and reasonable civilization justify bloodletting to curb this new government's progressive aggression, even though the Socialistic changes it is imposing is not acceptable nor in any way aligned with our founder's vision. Our only immediate options are to continue trying to educate voters to install representatives intent on reducing the size of government, or allow the government to fail and pray we can pick up the pieces. And of course, hold our arms close should defending ourselves against our own government become our only option.

M. Beatty 11/13/03

Plain and Simple, This is How it is

PAUL E VALLELY and he said this:

Obama is intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon, and reducing us as a super power....anyone who disagrees with him is PURGED.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE, THIS IS HOW IT IS

When there comes a so called leader

Who is compromised at best

His skill to lead is questionable

He has a socialistic vision quest

Now our reputation is damaged

In our military force

He has minimized our defenses

In manpower and resource

It is his will to corral the citizens

Into poor dependant lives

And tax to death the successful

Who now find it hard to thrive

The middle class he's created

Are now struggling to make ends meet

And the dependant class has all the power

To fill congressional seats

Money once spent on defense

Is routed directly to environmental lobbies

While the president is chasing

His golf and personal hobbies

His socialistic cronies

In the cabinet he built

Are busy labeling detractors

With unfounded racial guilt

Everything he wants accomplished

With no backing for his cause

Is implemented by executive order

With all his mandates and costly laws

The major event of his presidency

Is the Affordable Health Care Act

Only meant to collapse our republic

Another scheme the liberals back

God is being purged

As the foundation in which we stand

And our children are being indoctrinated

In our schools per his plan

The American  president is a puppet

Of George Soros and his type

The only chance this country has

Is to move drastically to the right

The Bond

The quote is from St. Augustine:

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

THE BOND

It is reaching out with a helping hand

And being there for others when need demands

It is a sense you have for people in need

That ignites your charity before they must plead

It is the warmth you feel even without reward

It is the duty to do for and trust in our Lord

It makes you look twice then shy away

It gets one through a horrible day

It makes your heart beat faster, stronger

It encourages you to linger longer

It makes a hug send chills down your spine

And gives you the will to work nine to nine

It is the reason for never needing to stray

You look at home in a brand new way

It creates miracles...daughters and sons

An never again being only one

It is a journey together til death do you part

And a combined choice of your mind and heart

It is a passionate kiss that seals  your fate

To stay together and procreate

It is a reason to cling and in kind respond

It is love, it is genuine, it is a bond

To Hell With Hamburger, My Taste Buds Need Sugar

TO HELL WITH HAMBURGER
MY TASTE BUDS NEED SUGAR!

Fresh fruit yes

White bread no

Cake and ice cream.....

No go

Veggies are ok

They are good, so they say

But truffles are better

You know

Pounds increase

Labeled obese

Have to buy two seats on a plane

From food on the table

To being disabled

There is nothing but pounds to be gained

Hold the salt hold the sugar

Hold the bun on the burger

To drop another size

I gotta exersize

And become a calorie purger

Paranoia

There with the dust bunnies he stays

Seldom from under there he strays

No one believes what for years I have said

A ghost lives under my bed

The closet door must be closed tight

It is so hard to be here at night

If they listen then everyone knows

A monster hangs out with my clothes

There is no way to fool me with disguise

The flowers on the wallpaper have eyes

And I know for certain that under the curtain

The spiders are working as spies

The Shallow Stare

THE SHALLOW STARE

A fellow soldier huddled in a bunker

Gunshots and bombs are all he hears

Missing the birth of his very first daughter

He is struggling with his fears

A child approached us innocently

What he brought is just a sin

He sets off a bomb so casually

Broken bodies are all around him

Villages in smoldering ashes

Littered with charred remains

What was the sin of these murdered masses?

Is there a reason for this kind of pain?

Religious zealots with knives and guns

Who want to kill the infidel

The targeted are the innocent ones

What god would promote this hell?

A lonely veteran broken and worn

Haunted by places he has been

A life now fractured, permanently torn

From the things his eyes have seen

The shallow stare of a warrior

Who has seen such human destruction

A permanent scar on his character

From the depths of his repulsion

Ghetto

GHETTO

Five kids and babies momma in a two room run down pad

Baby daddies don't come 'round unless they need a warm bed

Mamma's smokin' crack she gets from laying on her back

Half the time she don't know where the kids are at

The kids are trying to hustle out in the streets

The oldest girl gets by for what she does between the sheets

The littlest two are shopping at bodegas every day

The trick is what they take from there they never have to pay

The oldest boy makes a deal trading what he got

Sometimes he does so well he scores a gun and pot

Then there is another boy who isn't so street smart

But he makes enough for food trading quarters for his art

Mamma has another man laid up in her bed

When one of baby daddies come and shoot him in the head

The roach infested rooms are clearly not a home

Even with the six of them they live life on their own

We keep them all from trying with handouts and assistance

It helps fund their little lives of crime with nearly no persistence

If they survive the ghetto they will all be on take

Very few ghetto kids will ever make a break

Regrets of a Lonely Man

REGRETS OF A LONELY MAN

He stood knocking on the door

At the house he worked to pay for

Remembering the plans they had made

Sitting before a fire and drinking champaign

For years now he stood there every other Saturday

Just to have a few hours to watch his children play

Now the kids were nearly grown

Sissy and Sonny had plans of their own

He tried not to look too disappointed

Although his feelings were sadly wounded

Sissy was off with friends, just to hang around

Sonny had tickets for the concert down town

His childhood sweetheart has long been his ex

It was his need for change that caused it, perhaps

Their familiarity, once good, led him to wander

Bored and confused their money she squandered

His wandering never panned out back then

Failed relationships kept them lonely in the end

She made her apologies for the kids being away

Shut the door as she said "Have a nice day"

His future looked bleak and he was afraid

What a wreak his life was for the games that they played

He said to himself "it's my own bed I made,

I had a choice and I should have stayed."

The Commander

The quote is from Sun Tzu:

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

THE COMMANDER

The discipline was tough to take

The rigors of war would do us in, I thought

But in time we learned we were his son's and daughters

We were tough, able, and obviously we'll taught

There was never somewhere he would send us

Where he would not go in there first

We found he would give up his last drop of water

To quench a soldier's thirst

The harsh words that he bellowed

When one of us would screw things up

Proved many times to save our lives

Things were harsh, man, but there was trust

He put on a tough and heartless front

But one day I saw the tears in his eyes

He tried to hide them but I know they were there

When there were brutal, permanent good-byes

I'd follow this brute to hell and back

Never hiding from the battle call

He was the man he had to be

And a father to us all

Mad as Hell

MAD AS HELL

Once proud in our freedom

Once hopeful in our dreams

There used to be half a chance

It is just the way it seems

We Americans are struggling to do our best

In this economy it's really hard

We are again the target of terrorists

Right in our own back yard

But the deepest cut of all

Is that the people who are elected

Want to see our country fall

And our middle class neglected

Learning institutions are leaning left

The main stream media is biased

The conservatives can't pass the test

Ideology is at its highest

Hope and change has been a nightmare

We are in danger of collapse

Progressives are in power and most don't care

And liberty is fading fast

The Ghosts of War

THE GHOSTS OF WAR

He said goodbye to his wife

He left to do battle a proud American

He paid for his bravery with his life

This scenario happens again and again

Too many flag draped coffins have arrived on our shore

Too many tears have been shed

Too many politicians are not keeping score

Too many warriors coming home dead

He left with a patriotic heart

Proud that his parents would boast

But war tore his young soul apart

And he lives his life with a battle scarred ghost

Too many minds cracked and broken

Too many bloody bodies they'll be dreaming about

Too many vivid stories go unspoken

Too many young people wake up screaming out loud

The Pain of Benghazi

THE PAIN OF BENGHAZI

"What difference does it make?" Hillary said

The difference is that their sons are dead

Unanswered cries screamed from the brutal attacks

As fire raged in Benghazi, no one had their backs

It's not only about four men who lost their lives

The tragedy is far beyond the pale

It's the anguish of fathers, mothers, and wives

An inept government bureaucracy failed them

Salt in the wounds would after be driven

When lies circulated the news

This is one administration that won't be forgiven

Men lost their lives as their president snoozed

His Broken Vow

HERODOTUS. He was a Greek Historian. (484-425 B C) What he said thousands of years ago, remains true to this day and will forever remain true.

In peace sons bury their fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury their sons.

HIS BROKEN VOW

His tears of happiness were shed the day

His healthy newborn son was placed in his arms

He realized the miracle that happened that day

He vowed forever to keep him from harm

There was always an unspoken bond between them

One only a father and son knows

There were disagreements but things were righted again

Growing sons sometimes think they know how everything goes

At a time in his life a half grown man, still a boy

The father's son was sent off to war

The mainstay of the man's heart, his love, and his joy

Was leaving to do what his dad did before

His tears of sadness were shed that day

As the flag from the coffin was placed in his arms

Fathers and sons weren't supposed to separate this way

The broken father failed to keep his son from harm

JUMPING THE GUN

Allen West:

One thing the military teaches you is to smell fear.

JUMPING THE GUN

He moved forward upon his steed

Wearing armor for his protection

He readied for battle, he'd see them bleed

Far before the moment of the battle's inception

Not relying on the battle cry

Being valiant into battle the warrior did steer

Passing all the others by

Because he smelled the enemy's fear

Heads Above the Water

Thomas Jefferson:

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

HEAD ABOVE THE WATER

Sailing along with the wind taking us away

Returning on a current at the end of each day

Trusting our boat is sturdy, stern to stem

Before our bow is where we are heading

Aft is where we have been

Should sleezy, lying traitors fight their way aboard

And impose their aspirations upon our crew

Our surrender we can all Ill-afford

Saving our ship means only our resistance will do

We cannot let the flame in our lanterns flicker then die

Allowing perpetrators to take our grand ship

Eternal vigilance from the sailors, with a keen eye

Would have stopped the scheming traitors from intruding on our trip

If our ship is our country should we treasure her less?

Than sailors did the compilation of wood and sails

Why shouldn't we resist the traitors in our midst?

Will we watch them burn the constitution, let our country fail?

A PATRIOT'S PROMISE

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men. Abe Lincoln

A PATRIOT'S PROMISE

Don't ask me to hold my tongue

Don't ask that I stand down

I will refute every lie that's flung

And not cower without a sound

Though I may be scorned

When I raise my voice

When my country is torn

I have no choice

I will always choose to stand

Against government's growing power

A patriot's heart demands

He won't live and die a coward

When the Citizens Surrendered

The quote is from an American author, Paul McGuire.

The message is seductive, “we will take care of you.” Whenever people look to government as their saviour, totalitarianism always rears its head and people loose their freedom. You will have a tiny upper class, or as they like to say, 1%, and a massive under class which will be unemployed or the working class.

WHEN THE CITIZENS SURRENDERED

A sadness lingers across the land

The era of productivity has died

No more eager workers will the economy demand

Languishing citizens have surrendered their pride

The elite a mere peanut in the barrel

Will they too be diminished over time?

Can this country be no longer in peril

Because there is simply no further it can decline?

Chasing rainbows is not an option

The pot of gold has ceased to exist

We drank their koolaide or some concoction

All because of a free ride most wouldn't resist

Paintings are all now black and white

Our future less liberty is set in stone

I was there when the republic was stable and right

Now with too few patriots I stand alone

The Vote

not sure what it will take to bring people out of their political coma.

THE VOTE

There are ignorant people asleep at the wheel

They have no clue what is bogus or real

They think of their life as one big joke

And all of them are proud to vote

We get by with reps these voters selected

Who with poor performance are reelected

Our lives are lived and futures formed

By voters who are misinformed

The Devil

Obama is evil incarnate. There’s not a doubt in my mind.” (Charles Struber)

THE DEVIL

The devil can lie without blinking

And uphold it up as fact

He is smooth in his demeanor

His sensitivity an act

He can make promises forever

That he intends to never keep

He can thrust a knife into someone's back

Let patriots burn while sound asleep

He can justify late term abortions

For those who don't want to be a mamma

He is skilled at mass extortion

The devil is Obama

Parity

Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist.

Lenin

PARITY

He compromised the economy

Spent until we're broke

Undermined our dignity

Let our global standing go up in smoke

He has convinced too many people

They are better off in his care

Food stamps are a way of life

Along with disability and welfare

His ultimate accomplishment

Is the affordable health care act

Another name for socialized medicine

More spending and more tax

Gone is the chance for prosperity

Motivation is ultimately lost

A country based on parity

With liberty the cost

Someone Needs To Pay

The man who promises everything is sure t fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Carl Q

SOMEONE NEEDS TO PAY

With empty pockets they  ask we consider

Grand plans the progressives cannot deliver

Why do people believe the lies?

Is it greed or don't they realize?

The promises if at all are kept

With taxes mandated on our every step

When greed itself is his driving force

By evil means he will make his course

And we all will suffer the consequence

Of the empty promises and our bounty spent

The Threat

An American author, Chuck Palshanuk, said “When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

The forefathers toiled tirelessly to compile it

Then placed the Constitution in our hands

Government will never again defile us

They will be elected an serve st our demand

We remained a country prosperous and free

Until, like roaches, progressives invaded

With misguided promises they won their seats

As more were installed, our liberty faded

Promises were broken

And our future became a threat

With every progressive word spoken

We can fight or live chained with our regrets

TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR GOD

Rocks turned

Bridges burned

Anger and resentment

Pure and total commitment

The time behind you fading fast

The end is coming soon at last

Happy unions

Sad goodbyes

Refreshing laughter

Soaking cries

We've all been there, done that

Now we stop to reflect just where we're at

Release your hate

Reciprocate

Embrace your God

Don't hesitate

He allowed you free rein to live your life

To chose your friends, husband or wife

It's time to pray you understand

He has always been so close at hand

Needing to Believe

George Eliot:

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

NEEDING TO BELIEVE

Do we ever reflect on the wonder

Beneath the deep blue sea

It is filled with miracles of life

Evolutions key?

Reflecting on God's existence

Questioning how on earth did I get here

Looking out over the ocean

Should I love Him, should I fear?

If only my perception

Leaned one way or the next

Those who truly believe

Why can't I know why they feel blessed

Something oh so simple

A gentle worldly nudge

But the beach is barren before me

How on earth am I to judge

The angels came to visit me

As here alone I stand

I would never know they had been here

If not for footprints in the sand

Perfection

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

Perfection

Improvement to perfection

Just may be our goal

Maintaining that perfection

Will surely take its toll

Falling from perfection

Happens far too easily

Because nothing near perfection

Is what we're meant to be

If we change to achieve perfection

It is often we will change

Like I said previously

Perfection is too hard too maintain