“…where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.”
All of our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in Moore, OK and the surrounding area. As they should, they will cry, they will hug, they will support each other and they will rebuild. I know because we have seen them do it so many times before. I lived in Oklahoma and I have many friends and family there today. They are a uniquely independent and a very hardy lot.
My Grandma Bussey was born in 1900 and when she was still an infant her daddy loaded the family and their belongings into a wagon and moved to Oklahoma, ending up in the area around – or near – Ada, Oklahoma. As the family story goes, Great-Grandpa Mitchell forded the river in the wrong place and Grandma Bussey floated out of the wagon when it was swamped by the waters. She was saved, of course, thank God.
When I was about 12 years old in 1970 I was at Grandma Bussey’s house in Atoka, Ok and I told her that I couldn’t do something. Without missing a beat Grandma Bussey turned to me and said, “Cain’t never did nothin’.” That comment, my friends, not only epitomized my Grandma Bussey but the spirit of Oklahoma itself.
So today in addition to sending prayers to the people of Moore, OK I would also like to remind them of their own inimitable spirit as expressed by my Grandma Bussey; “Cain’t never did nothin’.”
Remember Oklahomans, there is a reason your song was written. Sing it loud now and sing it proud! May God bless, keep and comfort you all.
There’s never been a better time to start in life-
It ain’t too early and it aint too late!
Starting as a farmer with a brand new wife-
Still be living in a brand-new state!
Brand new state-
gonna treat you great!
Gonna buy you barley, carrots and pertaters,
Pasture for the cattle, spinich and termaters,
Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,
Plen’y of air and plen’y of room,
Plen’y of room to swing a rope!
Plen’y of heart and plen’y of hope.OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet, When the wind comes right behind the rainQ
OOOOk-lahoma, Ev’ry night my honey lamb and I, Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk makin’ lazy circles in the sky.We know we belong to the land (yo-ho)
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Aye-yip-aye-yo-ee-ay!
We’re only sayin’
You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.!Ooook-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev’ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin’ lazy circles in the sky.We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We’re only sayin’
You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.Okla-okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla
Okla-okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla…We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Aye-yip-aye-yo-ee-ay!
We’re only sayin’
You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma
O.K. L – A – H – O – M – A
OKLAHOMA!
Yeeow!
Congressional Republicans: SHUT IT DOWN!
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) just issued a press release expressing his consternation over a report that the Obama Administration apparently targeted a Fox News reporter with a criminal probe due to his reporting of Administration leaks, and that press release by Senator Rubio really got under my skin. What in the hell is he, or any congressional Republican, going to do about any of this?
Let’s face it; nobody is going to be impeached or even sanction over the myriad scandals breaking in Washington over the past couple of weeks regardless of any investigative actions by the GOP congressional delegation. So, what should be done? The GOP congressional delegations in the House and Senate need to shut down all congressional business – all of it – until or unless the American people get answers.
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This is not America
Here is today’s Shot from the Right.
Glenn Beck has said for some time now that Americans will wake up one morning and not recognize their country. That day, for many, has come and gone as a thief in the night with nary a whimper.
No matter what you feel is the legitimate function of government in America, consider this: Americans have to notify the federal government of each and every dime they earn and then the federal government will determine how much you get to keep. And as we learned during the Clinton Administration, they may make that decision retroactively. The government can, and does, call you on the carpet and subject you and your life to the deepest anal probe known to man and call it an audit to ensure you haven’t made and hidden a few pennies. Ignorance, mistakes and bad record keeping on your part are no defense.
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America Today – Freedom Under Siege
I’ve repeatedly said it; these are dangerous times in America. We are living through unprecendented tyranny and oppression. America, Americans and our unalienable rights are under siege by the federal government to an extent never before seen in our history, not since the tyranny of King George. Unfortunately, it will not get better until or unless conservatives become a legitimate threat to the elite political ruling class through massive civil disobedience in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And make no mistake about it; we are talking about the violent and illegal suppression of civil rights now every bit as much as was happening in MLK’s day.
We are talking about the abuse of government power. We are talking about suppression of our rights under the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th and 14th Amendments. We are talking about apartheid against conservative Americans through political correctness and government social engineering in our schools and other government structures.
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Introduction: “Three Years in Hell”
Steve investigating a double murder
INTRODUCTION
During my three years serving with the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations in the Philippines we received imminent danger pay (IDP) for about half that time and nonessential military personnel and dependents were restricted to base and/or their houses for about half that time due to the terrorist threats from the New Peoples’ Army communist insurgents. As a United States citizen did you know that members of the United States military were at that level of threat and danger while serving in the Philippines in the late 1980s? No, you didn’t. It was an unadvertised war.
The period from June 1987 through August 1990 was simultaneously the best and worst time in my life. It was three years in hell that impacts my daily life to this very day in 2013. Not a single day goes by that I don’t wake up thinking about that time in the Philippines, people I served with and people who were needlessly murdered or go to bed at night without dreaming about those days and people. The fear and anger are still palpable.
Even as I try unsuccessfully to clean the memories from my mind and life something always seems to happen to resurrect them. In 2005 or 2006 I received a telephone call from an FBI agent who was trying to extradite a NPA terrorist responsible for killing American servicemen from the Philippines to the United States to put him on trial for murder, and I was the primary tactical counterintelligence collector in that case. The FBI agent wanted to know everything I knew and remembered from those days and where he could gain additional insight.
From time to time I receive emails from agents who served with me in the Philippines thanking me for this or that. Here is one recent example of those emails that I received just this year – 2013 (I removed the name and email address):
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