tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62993864355160547762024-03-12T19:37:46.297-07:00The Barber's EdgeThe Barber's EdgeLindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15682268673480079776noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299386435516054776.post-14213888448915740452016-10-31T05:28:00.000-07:002016-10-31T05:28:17.441-07:00Leopards and the FBI: Candidates' Spots Make Them Unfit for Office<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Political leopards do not change
their spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, they make campaign
promises that they will not keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>College won't be free and there will be no "beautiful wall."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While you can't take their promises to the
bank, you can count on this: President Hillary Clinton or President Donald
Trump will be the exact same person who she or he is as a candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In July, "Leopard
Clinton" praised FBI Director Comey for clearing her of wrongdoing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Leopard Trump" said the Director
was part of the rigged system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
Clinton is giving the Director guidance, saying it is imperative that he
immediately release all details of the newly discovered evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Trump is praising the Director's
courage for breaking away from the rigged system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their statements were made in furtherance of
naked political ambition with disregard for the long-term good of our
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liberty demands that the FBI be
apolitical and independent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Director
is appointed to a 10 year term unlike Cabinet Secretaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is done, in part, to ensure the independence of
the FBI from the political whims of a President. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While much could be said about
Director Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation, none of it
should be said by these political leopards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The FBI must not only be independent, it must be publicly accepted as independent
for the health of our democratic republic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An FBI that is unwilling to investigate the corruption of a sitting
administration or takes orders from a President to investigate political
enemies hurls us toward utter political corruption and dictatorship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statements by Clinton and Trump about the
FBI's investigation is further evidence that neither one is fit to be
President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it comes to the
importance of the independence of the FBI, one of these leopards doesn't care
to know and the other leopard knows but simply doesn't care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is certain, the spots of that leopard
won't change when she or he becomes President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let's hope America is not their gazelle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15682268673480079776noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299386435516054776.post-59498513409769530042016-10-29T11:01:00.000-07:002016-10-31T12:22:56.993-07:00Bond v. Bourne for President: Deception and the Presidential Campaigns<br />
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With Trump and Clinton, just like with James Bond and Jason Bourne,
what you see is not real. It's a highly produced package of illusions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Bond and Bourne are very different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With "Donald J. Bond" <strong><em>you don't know what you
are going to get</em></strong>, but you know it will be outlandish, spectacular and
frequently silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hubris is readily
apparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women will be portrayed as
sexual objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rules won't apply to
the high roller with all the extravagant toys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The "bad guys" are easy to identify and the good guy promises
us that he (and we) will always prevail even though there is no way he (and we)
could survive if this were real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
fakery is so apparent that at some point in the show Donald J. Bond will look
in the cameras of the "biased and corrupt" media and wink to tell us
that he knows that we know that this over-the-top political blockbuster is
fake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>With "Hillary Rodham Bourne" <strong><em>you do know what you are going to
get</em></strong> - a thoroughly trained, highly effective operative. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is flawed but highly capable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is trapped and tormented by the
brainwashing of decades in the do-loop of campaigns, money, public office,
money, power, and money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She breaks a
lot of rules, but in her mind it is for a "good cause."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She deceives you in order to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The FBI is after Hillary Rodham Bourne and it's hard to tell if the FBI is good, bad, or
some of both. But unlike Donald J. Bond, Hillary Bourne wants us to believe the
show is real. Rather than wink in the camera to acknowledge the fakery, she
looks through her binoculars and assesses us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is smarter than us, better trained than us, and she can make us
believe the illusion is real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a not-so-subtle
arrogance she calls us at the end of the movie and says, "Get some rest,
America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You look tired."</div>
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It is a sad day when the two major political parties, both
of which have capable leaders who could ably serve as president, offer us over-priced
popcorn and ask us whether we want to see Bond or Bourne every day for the next
four years.<a 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Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15682268673480079776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299386435516054776.post-31109975524668191582015-05-25T12:02:00.000-07:002015-05-25T12:13:26.726-07:00The "Fallen" have Names<div>
On the this day I am remembering Holmes, Goodrich, Krause, Maupin, Lemon, DeLeon, Dimaranan, Nolan, Harlan, and Morgan - all men of the 172nd Corps Support Group who were killed by our enemy while serving their country. IEDs, a mortar round, small arms fire, and the vicious act of an executioner who killed a POW, Matt Maupin, cut short the lives of these men who chose to serve their country. I was fortunate to have a front row seat to witness their devotion to country. Every day they did their duty. It was a matter of odds as to who would be the victim of an IED, a mortar round or an ambush. They did their duty each day until the enemy took their lives. </div>
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I am grateful that we have a time to remember these men and many other men and women whose service to our country cost them their lives. Along with being grateful, I am enormously sad that the cost of war -- be the war popular or unpopular -- was the lives of Jeremiah, Gregory, Elmer, Matt, James, Jeremy, Lauro, Allen, Richard, and Jerome. The wartime commander of the 172nd, Major General Gary Bunch (Retired), is again carrying the names of these men in the "Carry the Load" march this Memorial Day. You can contribute to General Bunch's fundraising effort<a href="http://ctl.convio.net/site/TR/2015/General?px=1012217&pg=personal&fr_id=1220"> here</a>. Keep leading, Cherokee Six. I will follow. </div>
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God bless the families of our fallen service members with peace, and may we remember Jeremiah, Gregory, Elmer, Matt, James, Jeremy, Lauro, Allen, Richard, and Jerome with gratitude. The "fallen" have names. Their fathers, mothers, spouses, children, and siblings know them by name. We should remember them by name. God bless the memory of Jeremiah, Gregory, Elmer, Matt, James, Jeremy, Lauro, Allen, Richard, and Jerome. </div>
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Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15682268673480079776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299386435516054776.post-13099697426097760012011-06-23T19:55:00.000-07:002016-10-30T07:10:32.823-07:00The Death of UBL - One PerspectiveBin Laden is dead. This is no longer news. No longer a cause for celebration in the streets of America. No longer a cause for mourning in some quarters. So what does the death of Osama Bin Laden mean now that the first emotions have passed? Is liberty more prevalent? Is radicalism in decline?<br />
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He killed civilians. He killed athiests, agnostics, Christians, Jews, and Muslims. He represented a wildly different brand of Islam than the Islam of my Muslim friends. He was a father, a brother, a son. He is gone. Yes, a killer has gone to his grave. A treasure of intelligence bearing on national security has gone to his grave. A warrior, in my opinion, a sorely misguided warrior, has gone to his grave. A father, brother, and son has gone to his grave.<br />
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Banksy, a Bristol graffiti artist, said, "...you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." UBL has only died once. I wonder when he will die for the second time. <br />
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