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Plausible Deniability; "Whatsoever Thou Sowest, Thou Shalt Surely Reap!"

by  Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

For five years we have been warning readers and those who are snooping about, of the danger that Obama poses to this Nation. He promised to totally change America...and voila he is doing it in the finest traditions of an accomplished Chicago political thug. Every leader, whether civilian or military understands that as the leader goes, his subordinates or underlings follow. The organization in general, if not in detail, takes on the personality of the leader. If one does not understand that basic leadership principle, one is simply naive as to how leadership works. In Obama's case whether or not he understands it is irrelevant, what has proven to be factual is that virtually everywhere in his Administration his Chicago style thuggish behavior is on display.  So, we have Obama Administration certifiable lies about Benghazi, the IRS and intimidation of the media. Surprised? One shouldn't be.

Examples of Obama's anti-Americans thuggish behavior abound, with Sequestration being the most vivid. Incidentally, Sequestration has only a marginal effect, if at all on his support base.  Although he asserted during the Campaign that there would be no Sequestration, before it took effect Obama did everything possible to bring it about, then in a play that media ignoramuses ignore he blames Congress for its failure to prevent it.

Here are the facts, a two percent cut in a budget that was increased by 3.1 percent yields budget growth of 1.1 percent, not a decreased budget; so Sequestration cuts are a total Obama Administration fabrication.  But who said the Democrats deal in reality? Despite budget growth, it isn't enough to satisfy the Obama Administration so he directed Federal Agencies to make Sequestration cuts where they would have the greatest negative effect on the voting public. One of the most visible is to shut down White House tours for the general public, a minor cost that could easily be offset by cancellation of only one of Obama's continuing campaign trips, and reprogramming those funds...and yes, it's doable. That is but one example of hundreds all of which are similarly designed to adversely affect and offend ordinary Americans.

Why would he want to take that approach? The answer is to cause the most people inconvenience or to make them "suffer." Those will then "beg" for relief, while he blames the "pain" on Congress notwithstanding the fact that he is the one who crafted Sequestration legislation and subsequently stated that he would veto any attempt to fix it. Past President's have consistently done exactly the opposite, to minimize the pain by lopping program allocations where those allocations would have the least effect. And thus, Obama continues to "fundamentally change America."

For those who like it, one wonders in what universe they live, certainly not in a sane or logical one. The problem is compounded by some Republicans who are so "moderate" and morally corrupt that the Chicago Mafia led by Obama's Administration of political thugs with its agenda of:

•    "Good times" sexual perversion,

•    "Robin Hood" economics,

•    Anti-traditional family,

•    Pro Muslim anti-Christian bias,

•    anti-life sexual freedom cloaked in women's right to discard any semblance of personal responsibility in favor of lust, and

•    Glorifying evil while calling it "good,"

Are running roughshod over civil behavior...witness among others the ongoing street war in Obama's home city.  Obama and his acolyte henchmen can't fix Chicago and disgusting liberals believe he is good for the country? Is this still the United States of America or some third world banana dictatorship? Evidence shows that it is increasingly the latter...it's time that some Republican(s) "grow a set" or get the hell out of the way and let Conservatives restore the Republic.

I urge Congress, "Don't allow Obama to distract the nation from his evil agenda." It is said, "I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that thou Wert cold or hot. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth."  Moderation be damned, it's time to go for the left's political throat.

In case one wonders, I've had it with this Administration...and some Republicans as well!

Semper Fidelis,
 
Copyright © May 28th, 2013 by Robert L. Pappas. With proper attribution, this essay may be quoted and redistributed, except it may not be used in conjunction with any advertisement without the author’s expressed written permission.

Obama and Petraeus Slept, for Disparate Reasons

by Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

There is always more to a story than is immediately evident on the surface and stories about General Patreaus' resignation abound.  It is notable that the FBI knew of Patraeus' affair for months before it became public. Evidently that juicy tidbit was leaked by an Obama Administration operative in response Patreaus' defense of the CIA vs. State Department assertion that the CIA had failed to protect the Benghazi compound; and that it was a terrorist attack, not a spontaneous, violent protest about a Muslim insulting video.

Resigned because of an affair...Humm. Pathetic few are guiltless. Didn't Americans endure a Presidential libertine who Democrats, without regard to integrity have enshrined in their hall of honor as the most popular politician in America? It is evident that there is something more about the Petraeus resignation than meets the eye.

A brief review of the situation...no not the Petraeus' affair, those are so commonplace in Washington that it's old fashioned to not have one and that without regard to Party affiliation. Likewise there is likely plenty of dirt under and around the "infidelity bush" if anyone cares to dig. So, one is well-advised to not sit in condemnation of Petraeus' dalliance.  By deductive reasoning it is evident that he was forced out because of his deviation from the Administration line to the effect that a poorly done video insulting to Muslims was the cause.  However, the Petraeus CIA concluded that it was an organized terrorist attack.

Moveon.org, that "fount of truth and integrity" bought a full page ad in the New York Times on September 9th, 2007 for $65,000.00 in which it asked, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" The ad then proceeded to lay out a case from which then Senator Clinton at a Senate Hearing on September 12, 2007, told General Petraeus that it would require the "willing suspension of disbelief" for her to accept his narrative of progress in Iraq. At the time Clinton was a White House aspirant and considered Petraeus a potential challenger.  Now the worm has turned: immediately after Benghazi Clinton developed a case of the flu; that was followed by a concussion; then she suffered a cranial blood clot. Humm. Sounds queer, and stinks to high heaven. It requires one to exercise Clinton's own "willing suspension of disbelief" to accept her prevarication.

If Clinton was Republican there would be cheers of glee about her maladies with the View, Shultz, Maddow and other MSNBC democrat operatives and programs voicing hope that the next bell to ring for her would be at Heaven's...or Hell's gate. Unlike the political left, conservatives did not wish her ill. In fact they hope that she will fully recover from her ailments to lead a long well-deserved retirement with husband Bill. It is undeniable that Rodham-Clinton and by extension Obama utterly failed. She is not longer worthy of her former position and she has covered herself, the Stated Department and the United States with shame. She is certainly not one to be seriously considered for any future national leadership post. May Clintons live long, inseparably together forever.

But, how about Obama...where was he? We know...Obama was "Absent/asleep-in-Chief" during the attack on U.S. outpost, he went to bed notwithstanding ostensible orders to do "everything possible" to protect Benghazi. "Everything possible" according to Secretary of Defense Panetta was evidently absolutely nothing, stating to the effect that absent specific intelligence a rescue operation would have posed too great a danger to participating U.S. forces. YGBSM! Until recently no one in the media or the Administration challenged the "talking points"...except one. General Petraeus made it clear that it was a terrorist attack, not a video that caused a "spontaneous violent demonstration;" and that the CIA did not stand in the way of help. Not many days later and shortly after the election, revelations of his extramarital affair were leaked. And now you know the rest of the Petraeus resignation story.

Semper Fidelis and Peace

Copyright © May 21st, 2013 by Robert L. Pappas. With proper attribution, this essay may be quoted and redistributed, except it may not be used in conjunction with any advertisement without the author’s expressed written permission.

What I Mean by the Words, "I Love You"

by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

If ones listens to or watches the media, Christianity is to be eschewed, Christians are scorned and being "born again" is laughable...which for a Christian is expected because there is an ongoing war between the forces of God who is love, and of Satan who is evil. Succinctly put, God loves and Satan destroys. So, what is love? Thousands, if not millions of expressions and definitions of the word love flood music and written media, but few people actually know the real meaning. One thing is certain, it's not "making love" or the shorter description, "sex." God is love and because of that inherent quality He gave His only begotten son so that those who believe on Him should not perish but have eternal life. 

God's love is abundant and unfailing. One can find it referenced throughout the New Testament of the Bible and is definitively explained in the thirteenth chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. 

It is said that people "fall in love" as into a condition over which they have no control. And all too often they fall out of love with the same intensity as they fell into it leaving them empty and lonely. These are not experiencing love, instead they experience the raging emotions that accompany a compelling desire for sex. That condition is mistakenly referred to as "love." There is some honest confusion about love and it deserves clarification.

Love is when knees racked with pain, a wife of fifty years provides tender care for her bedridden, stroke victim husband. She shaves him daily, sits him up and feeds him despite his severe stroke condition. She dotes on him as she would a new born child, cleaning him and carefully turning him regularly to avoid bed sores. She does this for not ten days, or a month, but for years with joy and yes, grim determination through the agonizing pain caused by bowled legs and knee bone on bone contact.  When the end came, she did not sigh with relief, rather, she bemoaned that she had not been able to do more. She never asked for help, never criticized, but persevered in her expression of love for a man who would only occasionally utter a cogent sentence and who was otherwise incommunicado.

Love is expressed by a wife who with the passage of time remained childless, and who in an era before micro surgeries and high tech solutions in fertility medicine, without hesitation endured repeated major surgeries in an effort to correct internal damage that precluded pregnancy.  Love is despite complete exhaustion, that same wife, a loving daughter cared for her terminally ill mother for months, no whining or complaining but filled with expressions of love and devotion.

Love is when someone does something for a person or cause at great personal cost with no expectation of reward, because it is the right thing to do. Love is to give up one's own objectives to support another's aspirations.  Love is shown by the widow who gives  a mite, all she had to advance God's Kingdom.  Love is expressed by the Marine or soldier who without hesitation wraps himself around a live grenade and absorbs the blast to protect his fellow combatants. Love is expressed by Jesus' obedience to the Father who sent Him, so that when the time was ripe, he interposed Himself on a cross between evil and humankind. "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

A mother's love may begin with sex but is brought to fruition when despite her own hunger, she passes meager food to her child whose growing body demands more than she can provide for both. Her love is expressed by instant willingness to interpose herself between danger and her family.  She expresses it through a kiss to heal a cut or scrape, by sitting near her child's bed for hours, even days when the child's body is afire with fever. She answers interminable questions and the single word follow-up, "why?" She knows how far it is to the moon, the sun and the planets; she knows the answer to every question and never loses patience with her child's insatiable desire to know more. She listens attentively and consoles when her child pours out his heart over hurt feelings or loss of his first pet. She caresses, consoles and disciplines with love that flows from a pure heart.

One young mother bore a child out of wedlock and because she did not terminate him, he later became President of the United States. Yet, tragically, that same President supports the killing of an aborted baby who might survive the abortion. Is it out of self-loathing or short circuited values? Another let raging hormones win and when she learned that she was going to have a baby, she loved that living child within her enough to carry it full term and give it up for adoption, then years later by God's grace is reunited with a young man who would make anyone proud.

Mothers, thank you for your love, never let it go. Have a well deserved and Happy Day that rightly honors you. Mother, I love you and I'll stand by you.

Semper Fidelis


Copyright © May 12th, 2013 by Robert L. Pappas. With proper attribution, this essay may be quoted and redistributed, except it may not be used in conjunction with any advertisement without the author’s expressed written permission.