Years ago I visited the Viet Nam War Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. As a USAF veteran I wanted to pay tribute to our fallen heroes, especially a close friend that lost his life at the hands of the Viet Cong. We grew up together, played on city championship baseball teams in 1952. My friend got a congressional appointment to West Point. The last time I saw him was the night before he left for West Point celebrating his appointment. He was promoted to Captain and then shipped over to Viet Nam.
Two years later I joined the USAF, and spent most of my tour of duty in Europe. Never saw my friend again. A few days ago my wife and I visited the Viet Nam "moving" war memorial in Madison, Ohio. I wanted to pay tribute to the men/women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. I also wanted to visit the nameplate of my childhood friend who was killed in Viet Nam when a Viet Cong threw a grenade in his jeep.
We met so many people Friday at the wall in Madison. The comradre was unbelievable. Military vets from WWII, Korean War,Viet Nam War, and Vets from the current war in the mid-east were there. Most of them had hats, shirts, medals, and ribbons signifying their service in the military. So many warm embraces accompanied with tears made it all the more memorable.
I was so impressed when a Viet Nam veteran, adorned with medals and ribbons aapproached me and said, "thank you for your service". I had an old USAF baseball cap on. I told him I was in '54-'58 and felt a little guilty because I never saw any combat. He then said to me, "doesn't matter cause when you enlisted you signed a check saying you're available for war or any other job the military gives you". This Viet Nam vet made my day.
This morning I read in the news that over 200 NFL players would not stand to show respect for our flag and National Anthem. I haven't watched any NFL games since Kaepernick refused to stand last year before a game during our Anthem. I must admit, it's a little easier given I live in the shadow of the Cleveland Browns stadium where they house a 1-18 team. Before I continue on with this blog please note, OBJECTIVELY that the NBA and NFL teams are comprised of over 80% African-Americans, and nearly 99.9% of the kneelers were Black.
Can you imagine if only White athletes in the NFL took the knee, or if only White NBAchamps refused to visit the White House. My God, BLM, Antifa, Sharpton, Jackson, CNN, and MSNBC would be all over this, and the words "racial inequality" would never be uttered. These Black athletes in the NBA and NFL are multi millionaires. What are they complaining about? All you're seeing and reading about is the disdain of the media for our President Trump.
I'd like to know how many of these "kneelers" and disrespectors of our American flag and our National Anthem were ever privileged enough to wear the military uniform. My guess is just about zero, nada, none. You can bet the 63 million Americans that voted for President Trump would never take a knee during the Anthem, and the flag is honored. While on active duty I always felt an overwheling sense of pride, honor, and patriotism when the Anthem was played, and I stood while in salute.
I am 82, and I still feel that way when I hear the Anthem. With Parkinsons' it's a little difficult to stand, but nothing and no one could ever stop me from standing. After visiting the moving wall this past Friday my loyalty to my country and flag became so much stronger. I just wish the 200+ NFL/NBA kneelers would visit the wall.
Over 90% of the NFL kneelers and NBA whiners are African-Americans, so naturally they are all screaming "Trump is a racist". They claim they're kneeling for"social justice"., and "cops killing Blacks" A little research would inform them that actually Blacks kill Blacks at an alarmingly growing rate; much much more than Whites killing Blacks. Even the percentage of Blacks killing Whites are a higher percentage. These 200+ kneelers should visit Chicago, where Black on Black crime is rising daily, not kneeling out of their protest against our President.
Visiting "The Wall" will give any patriotic American a sense of pride and honor remembering these true men/women heroes that made the ultimate sacrifice to proect our freedoms that enable the 200+ "kneelers" to show disrespect to our flag and Anthem.
One just hopes and prays that these kneelers will use their athletic platform to praise and honor our country rather than show disrespect and disdain.
And that's Politics with Pete for today....God bless our country...and our troops.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Hooray for Hollywood?
I know this great hard-working young man who is on a major TV drama show beginning its third season. He plays a Doctor on the show, and it's exciting for me to watch this young man grow into a fine actor while maintaining both feet grounded. I attended many of his high school and college plays and musicals he performed in with my own grandson.
I was sharing a single malt Scotch with him when he was home a few weekends ago, and we discussed his life and his perspective on acting. He was was so very impressive. He reminded me, "I have no idea what these medical terms are or mean....I just read the script they hand me". When I said to him that I wished all Hollywood actors had that attitude, he just smiled and said, "No comment.....I wanna keep acting".
What's my point? Americans just want actors, singers, and stage performers do what we spend our money for....ENTERTAIN us. That's all we want from them. I'm 82, and have my own personal list of favorite actors and singers from the past. When I paid money to watch or hear them perform I didn't know, nor did I care, what their political or religious beliefs were. Also, none of my favorite performers tried to influence or judge anyone else's beliefs on politics or religion.
So will someone tell me what the hell has happened? Maybe it started when politicians used entertainers to help them convince the voters to vote for their candidates. Of course that's fine, and is part of the American way of life, debating, and voting. But where is it written or decreed that if you don't agree with the Hollywood elites you suddenly become a "racist", or a "deplorable", or a "cave dweller", or numerous other degrading insults from the losers?
Yes, losers. When the other team wins and you lose, you graciously move on and try to find ways to win the next time you meet your opponent. It seems though that the left-leaning lib Dems have encouraged the Hollywood elites to attack the winners, even after the game is over.
The November, 2016 presidential election was the lit fuse that started the hate-mongering emanating from the Hollywood elites.
Let me use a sports analogy. Who would you bet on to win a football game between number one Alabama and my high school team? Of course number one Alabama would be the heavy favorite. All during the 2016 Presidential campaign Crooked Hillary was declared the winner by a large margin long before voters went to their polls. She even went on talk shows declaring herself the winner, and was screaming, "it's my turn...I'm entitled...why aren't I 50 points ahead?" On election day she had a double-digit lead. No more needs to be written.
Have you noticed, though, that the push back is really gaining momentum? We 63 million that put Donald J. Trump in the White House have only one voice speaking for us. His name is President Donald Trump. We 63 million 'deplorables' have no media to speak for us. Wouldn't it be great to have ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN start interviewing some of the 63 million who voted for President Trump?
But the message to the likes of Whoopi, Joy, Chelsea(2), Madonna, Clooney, Jen Lawrence, Ashley Judd, et.al. is that you idiots are not impacting our thinking at all. And your words and actions are hurting no one but yourself. We have already started to boycott your movies and appearances. Remember you are nothing more than people reading off a piece of paper that someone else wrote for you.
In the days of Shakespeare only the misfits were actors. They were not revered by the public. The reality is you are nothing but speakers of words put on paper by others. No one really cares what you have to say about our country and our President. If the Trump supporters had a media voice like these overrated performers you just might see a difference.
The NFL, NBA, and MLB is imploding, and by the looks of movie box office sales the entertainment industry is right behind them. Karma and Pay-Back folks.
And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country...and our troops.
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I was sharing a single malt Scotch with him when he was home a few weekends ago, and we discussed his life and his perspective on acting. He was was so very impressive. He reminded me, "I have no idea what these medical terms are or mean....I just read the script they hand me". When I said to him that I wished all Hollywood actors had that attitude, he just smiled and said, "No comment.....I wanna keep acting".
What's my point? Americans just want actors, singers, and stage performers do what we spend our money for....ENTERTAIN us. That's all we want from them. I'm 82, and have my own personal list of favorite actors and singers from the past. When I paid money to watch or hear them perform I didn't know, nor did I care, what their political or religious beliefs were. Also, none of my favorite performers tried to influence or judge anyone else's beliefs on politics or religion.
So will someone tell me what the hell has happened? Maybe it started when politicians used entertainers to help them convince the voters to vote for their candidates. Of course that's fine, and is part of the American way of life, debating, and voting. But where is it written or decreed that if you don't agree with the Hollywood elites you suddenly become a "racist", or a "deplorable", or a "cave dweller", or numerous other degrading insults from the losers?
Yes, losers. When the other team wins and you lose, you graciously move on and try to find ways to win the next time you meet your opponent. It seems though that the left-leaning lib Dems have encouraged the Hollywood elites to attack the winners, even after the game is over.
The November, 2016 presidential election was the lit fuse that started the hate-mongering emanating from the Hollywood elites.
Let me use a sports analogy. Who would you bet on to win a football game between number one Alabama and my high school team? Of course number one Alabama would be the heavy favorite. All during the 2016 Presidential campaign Crooked Hillary was declared the winner by a large margin long before voters went to their polls. She even went on talk shows declaring herself the winner, and was screaming, "it's my turn...I'm entitled...why aren't I 50 points ahead?" On election day she had a double-digit lead. No more needs to be written.
Have you noticed, though, that the push back is really gaining momentum? We 63 million that put Donald J. Trump in the White House have only one voice speaking for us. His name is President Donald Trump. We 63 million 'deplorables' have no media to speak for us. Wouldn't it be great to have ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN start interviewing some of the 63 million who voted for President Trump?
But the message to the likes of Whoopi, Joy, Chelsea(2), Madonna, Clooney, Jen Lawrence, Ashley Judd, et.al. is that you idiots are not impacting our thinking at all. And your words and actions are hurting no one but yourself. We have already started to boycott your movies and appearances. Remember you are nothing more than people reading off a piece of paper that someone else wrote for you.
In the days of Shakespeare only the misfits were actors. They were not revered by the public. The reality is you are nothing but speakers of words put on paper by others. No one really cares what you have to say about our country and our President. If the Trump supporters had a media voice like these overrated performers you just might see a difference.
The NFL, NBA, and MLB is imploding, and by the looks of movie box office sales the entertainment industry is right behind them. Karma and Pay-Back folks.
And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country...and our troops.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Why teach hate?
Two days ago I was baby-sitting my 3-year old great granddaughter. She was playing "Doctor" with her dollies, and then played "momma" with them changing their diapers, and singing songs to them. Later at lunch she said 'grace' before we ate. After lunch her GiGi (great grandmother) showed her the A-B-C book she bought her. Then she got drowsy, so we put on her favorite cartoon TV show and watched her fall asleep for her nap.
Watching her sleep I couldn't help but think of all the love and protection surrounding this 3-year old angel. She has wonderful parents, fantastic grandparents, and two of us great-grandparents that spoil her. You should see the mess she makes in the kitchen helping us bake chocolate chip cookies. She insists on using the electric beater to stir the ingredients. Oh, the mess she makes, but the clean up is worth it.
What's my point in all this? While my great granddaughter is being taught love, respect, sharing, and Christain values, many places in the mid-east are teaching their 3-year olds how to hate and kill the infidels of the western world. These young children are taught that their beloved Allah wants them to hate and kill all Christians.
As these 3-year old mid-east children grow to the rip old age of 9 or 10 they are then brought into the military ranks of the evil ISIS and taught how to kill the infidels with knives and guns. I recently saw a video of this handsome sweet looking Muslim boy pick up a knife to stab and slice a Christain's neck and stand there to the cheers of his ISIS teachers. The thing I noticed the most was the utter blank stare on the face of the young boy as he looked at the Christain he just murdered. He showed no remorse, or feelings at all. It was treated like a homework assignment.
There are so many "take-aways" from these two comparisons. Suppose the mid-east families taught their children that Islam is a religion of peace, while teaching their children to love, respect, and act with kindness to all cultures and religions. And at the same time Christain families were teaching their young children hatred towards Muslims of the Islam faith. When the Christain children became of age they are taught to use knives and guns to destroy and eradicate all Muslims.
My point is that anyone can not just hate, but even go so far as teaching hate to the children of the world. It's so very easy to hate. Just ask Stephen Colbert and the Hollywood elites. They honestly feel they are above average Americans, and further feel that disagreeing with them just fuels more hatred more by using words like white supremacy and racism. And the people of hate that loot and vandalize decent American businesses really don't know or understand why they commit these horrible life and property damages.
Hate usually begets hate, and what is accomplished if Americans just hated an opposing view by someone, or their religion, or the color of their skin? A nation filled with hatred will surely implode, and will have absolutely nothing to show for all its hatred. Hatred slows all Americans, and stops us from focusing on what our country truly needs. It's OK to disagree and have respectful debates, instead of physically destroying lives and properties of others.
To me, the most disturbing news today was news that the media will not even address, or even give notice to. And that is that the city of Chicago has now reach 500 crime-related deaths in 2017, and there are still sixteen weeks left in this year. Of course the frosting on the cake is that Chicago is, by law, ruled a gun-free zone. Rather than try to clean up his crime ridden city Mayor Rahm Emanuel was delighted, and paid more attention in declaring that President Trump is not welcome in Chicago.
But, as I wrote earlier, it all starts in the family. If mothers, fathers, and child caregivers from ALL nations begin teaching all children of all cultures and religions that peace is the answer then we have an amazing start to living in a world of peace and prosperity.
And that's Politicws with Pete for today...God bless our country.....and our troops.
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Watching her sleep I couldn't help but think of all the love and protection surrounding this 3-year old angel. She has wonderful parents, fantastic grandparents, and two of us great-grandparents that spoil her. You should see the mess she makes in the kitchen helping us bake chocolate chip cookies. She insists on using the electric beater to stir the ingredients. Oh, the mess she makes, but the clean up is worth it.
What's my point in all this? While my great granddaughter is being taught love, respect, sharing, and Christain values, many places in the mid-east are teaching their 3-year olds how to hate and kill the infidels of the western world. These young children are taught that their beloved Allah wants them to hate and kill all Christians.
As these 3-year old mid-east children grow to the rip old age of 9 or 10 they are then brought into the military ranks of the evil ISIS and taught how to kill the infidels with knives and guns. I recently saw a video of this handsome sweet looking Muslim boy pick up a knife to stab and slice a Christain's neck and stand there to the cheers of his ISIS teachers. The thing I noticed the most was the utter blank stare on the face of the young boy as he looked at the Christain he just murdered. He showed no remorse, or feelings at all. It was treated like a homework assignment.
There are so many "take-aways" from these two comparisons. Suppose the mid-east families taught their children that Islam is a religion of peace, while teaching their children to love, respect, and act with kindness to all cultures and religions. And at the same time Christain families were teaching their young children hatred towards Muslims of the Islam faith. When the Christain children became of age they are taught to use knives and guns to destroy and eradicate all Muslims.
My point is that anyone can not just hate, but even go so far as teaching hate to the children of the world. It's so very easy to hate. Just ask Stephen Colbert and the Hollywood elites. They honestly feel they are above average Americans, and further feel that disagreeing with them just fuels more hatred more by using words like white supremacy and racism. And the people of hate that loot and vandalize decent American businesses really don't know or understand why they commit these horrible life and property damages.
Hate usually begets hate, and what is accomplished if Americans just hated an opposing view by someone, or their religion, or the color of their skin? A nation filled with hatred will surely implode, and will have absolutely nothing to show for all its hatred. Hatred slows all Americans, and stops us from focusing on what our country truly needs. It's OK to disagree and have respectful debates, instead of physically destroying lives and properties of others.
To me, the most disturbing news today was news that the media will not even address, or even give notice to. And that is that the city of Chicago has now reach 500 crime-related deaths in 2017, and there are still sixteen weeks left in this year. Of course the frosting on the cake is that Chicago is, by law, ruled a gun-free zone. Rather than try to clean up his crime ridden city Mayor Rahm Emanuel was delighted, and paid more attention in declaring that President Trump is not welcome in Chicago.
But, as I wrote earlier, it all starts in the family. If mothers, fathers, and child caregivers from ALL nations begin teaching all children of all cultures and religions that peace is the answer then we have an amazing start to living in a world of peace and prosperity.
And that's Politicws with Pete for today...God bless our country.....and our troops.
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Thursday, September 7, 2017
I got fired!
A few days ago, after hurricane Harvey blasted Texas, and there were articles and Internet postings about the Muslims and Mosques in Houston offering no help and supplies, I wrote a joke on Facebook, "the reason there were no Muslims in Texas helping out was because there were no dry places for their prayer rugs". Then I get a notification from *uckerberg's Facebook notifying me that my comment (joke) was rude and distasteful, therefore I am banned from their Facebook website.
Initially I was a little sad, even though I never open up their fake news articles anyway that have nothing to do with the headline of the story. I used F/B to communicate with family and friends, and look at pictures of the kids and grandkids, especially my two great granddaughters, and my grandsons in California.
I had heard stories of people and organizations being banned from Facebook, but I never opened up the articles because, quite frankly, I never believed any of these stories. Then I did some research and found that Facebook is nothing more than another left wing arm of the lib Dem party. Yes, Facebook will aldlow any stories, pictures, cartoons, opinions, AS LONG AS THERE IS NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS THAT MARK *UCKERBERG DOESN'T WANT ON HIS WEBSITE.
But you do know what is allowed on Facebook? Hollywood elites calling for the destruction of Christianity, namely Jennifer Lawrence and Miley Cyrus. John Cusack wants Pres. Trump assassinated. George Lopez wants to "pimp out" our first lady. Stephen Colbert called our President a c**k sucker. Kathy Griffin holding up a caricature of Pres. Trump with blood running down his face.
Then there's the daily news in Facebook by Black Lives Matter protesting and chanting about wanting dead cops. Antifa rioting at rallies attacking free speech advocates. Congressman Gutierrez wants Latinos to "fight in the streets". Whoopi, Joy, and Rosie screaming horrible dreadful remarks against our President, even his son Barron.
Madonna wants to burn the White House down. Ashley Judd wants to smear her menstrual blood on President Trump and his family. The media spreads lies and personal attacks on Pres. Trump and his family, and you can read about it every day in Facebook. Almost every day you can read in Facebook about how Maxine Waters and Joy Reed of MSNBC want to impeach Pres. Trump.
The double standards and hypocrisy of Mark *uckerberg and Facebook have enabled me to be very proud to remove Facebook from my iPhone, iPad, and mac computer. I'm hoping my family and friends will continue sending me pictures and communicate with me through Twitter, Instagram, and the Tea Party Communication Internet sites.
I also encourage everyone, especially conservatives, to remove Facebook from their electronic communicating devices.
And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country....and our troops.
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Initially I was a little sad, even though I never open up their fake news articles anyway that have nothing to do with the headline of the story. I used F/B to communicate with family and friends, and look at pictures of the kids and grandkids, especially my two great granddaughters, and my grandsons in California.
I had heard stories of people and organizations being banned from Facebook, but I never opened up the articles because, quite frankly, I never believed any of these stories. Then I did some research and found that Facebook is nothing more than another left wing arm of the lib Dem party. Yes, Facebook will aldlow any stories, pictures, cartoons, opinions, AS LONG AS THERE IS NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS THAT MARK *UCKERBERG DOESN'T WANT ON HIS WEBSITE.
But you do know what is allowed on Facebook? Hollywood elites calling for the destruction of Christianity, namely Jennifer Lawrence and Miley Cyrus. John Cusack wants Pres. Trump assassinated. George Lopez wants to "pimp out" our first lady. Stephen Colbert called our President a c**k sucker. Kathy Griffin holding up a caricature of Pres. Trump with blood running down his face.
Then there's the daily news in Facebook by Black Lives Matter protesting and chanting about wanting dead cops. Antifa rioting at rallies attacking free speech advocates. Congressman Gutierrez wants Latinos to "fight in the streets". Whoopi, Joy, and Rosie screaming horrible dreadful remarks against our President, even his son Barron.
Madonna wants to burn the White House down. Ashley Judd wants to smear her menstrual blood on President Trump and his family. The media spreads lies and personal attacks on Pres. Trump and his family, and you can read about it every day in Facebook. Almost every day you can read in Facebook about how Maxine Waters and Joy Reed of MSNBC want to impeach Pres. Trump.
The double standards and hypocrisy of Mark *uckerberg and Facebook have enabled me to be very proud to remove Facebook from my iPhone, iPad, and mac computer. I'm hoping my family and friends will continue sending me pictures and communicate with me through Twitter, Instagram, and the Tea Party Communication Internet sites.
I also encourage everyone, especially conservatives, to remove Facebook from their electronic communicating devices.
And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country....and our troops.
(Please follow me on my You Tube videos, Politics with Pete)
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