I'm Tired--some updates
The Old Jarhead
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html
I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
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I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them—with their own money.
I'm tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women's rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won't multiculturalism be beautiful?
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor;" of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers;" of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.
(Muslims burn gays: I couldn't watch the whole thing
http://www.shoebat.com/videos/muslimsBurn.php
Obama pretends to want to protect the rights of homosexuals.
Yet he supports Islam. There is no consistency in what the
Left supports. They obviously aren't for gays or for Muslims.
They just want to destroy everything we love and stand for: --Don Hank)
I believe "a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin." I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less in an all-knowing government.
I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful. That thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress, that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with two years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.
Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana. Update: People have written to tell me I'd have more sympathy if this was close to me. It is exactly having seen the destruction of alcoholism and heroin addiction in my own family that makes me pretty intolerant of people who are willing to destroy the people around them to indulge themselves.
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the citizens we need. Update: A few people have taken this to indicate some bias against Catholics, based on events 400 years ago. While I think they are either too touchy or fail to understand, I was only trying to say that I have zero problem with Catholics wanting to come to the US, but that I have great concerns about Muslims, as a good % of them do want to kill me, or force their religion and moral code on me.
I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years—and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear. UPDATE: It has rightly been pointed out to me, several times, that I should have included Canadian, Australian and New Zealand troops here. My apologies for slighting these gallant allies of freedom.
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers—bums are bi-partisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bi-partisanship. I live in Illinois, where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously to loot the public for years. And I notice that the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet are bi-partisan as well.
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to get to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
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Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts state senate. He blogs at www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com Update: Someone attached a picture of Robert D. Hall, an actor, to some versions and forwarded it on, saying that I was on CSI. We are two different people, and I am not an actor--unless you count running for public office.
And to the folks who said I'm Old and should die and get out of the way, I have IPF, (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) so will comply soon enough.
Love this, love this, love this. Thanks for posting.
Me, too! Love it, love it, love it!
You rock Jarhead, I agree with you 100%.
I gotta let you know we just lost our family Marine that served in Vietnam,
The American Legion and VFW were and he recieved the traditional 21 gun salute.
I know, he would support everything you said.
When will people wake up?
Thanks Jarhead.
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"Marine saves children in Vietnam"
How low is it that they send our boys over to fight and die in foreign lands then bring them home just to demonize them? And demonize them with stupid research to boot.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/13/sikh-temple-shooting-returns-attention-to-military-s-white-power-problem.html
You can find research that will validate just about anything if you look. Most research is bogus junk. Read this horse crap and realize it is a nasty agenda. This is what the far-left politics stoops to, especially when it's the Daily Beast & the Daily Kos, two of the most vile rags on the internet. They use people then destroy them.
This is not the first attack on US veterans either as they were listed by homeland security's Janet Napolitano as dangerous. It is cruel and insane.
The military are badly used by liberal politicians. This stinks to high heaven and needs to be shown for what it is... B.S.!
Quote from Ross:
You rock Jarhead, I agree with you 100%.
Ross I hope you aint thinking it was this ol Jarhead that wrote that. Hell, it would take me 2 months to peck out a message that long . I do totally agree with him though.
absolutly freakin amazing ...i could not agree more
now if we can just get all the other tree huggin left wing liberals to understand what "his"true mission as being pres is..the U.S might have a chance
I have no problem with the intent of the mesage, but it was written in Feb. 2009. Obama didn't go in until Jan.20th, 2009. He caused all our troubles in less than a month? Hardly. President Bush could have intervened in a lot that he didn't...Sub prime mortgages and all that.
Romney won't be able to fix things in a month either. Also will someone please explain to me what an"Organization Administrator" is? I"m not being a smart ass, I just don't know how someone who isn't a dentist,or a surgeon or a psychologist could run their "organizations.".Is it some kind of professional fund raiser?
Diane,
Where did you get the info that this was written in 2004 ?
Just asking.
At the very top of the posting, this is showing:
The Old Jarhead
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html (http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html)
Obviously it was written in 2009. If you look at his blog, he didn't write anything in 2004. Here is the bio on The Old Jarhead taken directly from his blog site.
About me
Gender
Male
Occupation
Executive
Location
Des Plaines, IL
Introduction
Robert A. Hall, MEd, CAE, has been an association executive since 1982. He was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1972, defeating a Democrat incumbent by 9 votes out of 60,000. He was reelected 4 times by large margins, and was nominated by both parties in 1976, retiring undefeated 1982. Hall holds an AA from Mount Wachusett Community College, a BA in government from the U Mass and an MEd in history from Fitchburg State. He is a Marine Vietnam veteran, having served four years in the regulars and, while a senator, another six in the reserves, finishing with the rank of Staff Sergeant. A frequently-published freelance writer, Hall's columns, articles, short stories and poetry have appeared in over 75 publications. His book of anecdotes about the Marines and politics, "The Good Bits," was published by www.authorhouse.com. His book on association management, "Chaos for Breakfast: Practical Help and Humor for the Non-profit Executive," is available at www.asaecenter.org. He married his first wife, Bonnie, in 1992. His granddaughter, Britnye, born in 2000, is the light of his life.
Interests
History, Writing, Reading, Scotland, Single Malt Whisky, Politics
Favorite Movies
Whisky Galour
Favorite Music
Scottish, Irish and American Folk
Favorite Books
"The Quest for Cosmic Justice, " "Basic Economics" and "Economic Facts and Fallacies" by Dr. Thomas Sowell. www.tsowell.com. "America Alone" by Mark Steyn "Green Side Out" and other Marine books by Maj. Gene Duncan.
The hair from your last haircut ... what would it say about your new style?
Have had a "Marine Reserves" haircut since 1968. Short, but not "high & tight."
I think he is an outstanding writer and what he writes about really relates to what is going on now.
From the Old Jarhead Marine:
Glenn Beck on Obama -- Brilliant!! http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=23924603&topic_id=24584158
Bob, I read your blog daily. Thanks for all the work you do of sorting out what is worth reading. Don't know how you feel about Glenn Beck, but this video monolog is brilliant. I am also sending this to about 50 other Gyrenes, but figured you have a bigger distribution list. All need to see this. Whether you are a Beck fan or not, this is well worth the 20 minutes it takes to watch this video. Not only is it extremely informative and entertaining, it is also downright funny. I guarantee this will be a classic. If I were the GOP, I would buy the rights to this and air it every day until the election. Seriously, do yourself a favor and take the time to watch and enjoy this.
About Robert Hall ;D You are correct, I hit the wrong year! I meant Feb. 2009...Gettin' old! The rest stands. I had no problem at all with what he wrote. I just Googled him for more information, hence the question about his being an "Association Executive" for several unrelated organizations. I just don't know what that is. Thought one of you might know. I'm not saying anything bad about him, I just wondered.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on August 17, 2012, 04:30:59 PM
About Robert Hall ;D You are correct, I hit the wrong year! I meant Feb. 2009...Gettin' old! The rest stands. I had no problem at all with what he wrote. I just Googled him for more information, hence the question about his being an "Association Executive" for several unrelated organizations. I just don't know what that is. Thought one of you might know. I'm not saying anything bad about him, I just wondered.
Diane you could have googled "Association Executive".
But that's okay, I did it for you.
Association executive Occupations Directs and coordinates activities of professional or trade association in accordance with established policies to further achievement of goals, objectives, and standards of profession or association: Directs research surveys, compilation, and analysis of factors, such as average income, benefits, standards, and common problems of profession, for presentation to association committees for action. Confers with officers to ensure that membership roster is current and complete and that members receive equal treatment regarding services and information provided by Board. Directs or participates in preparation of educational and informative materials for presentation to membership or public in newsletters, magazines, news releases, or on radio or television. Provides information and technical assistance to members, clients of members, or public, relating to business operations. Represents association in negotiations with representatives of government, business, labor, and other organizations, and holds news conferences, delivers speeches, and appears before legislative bodies to present association's viewpoints and encourage acceptance of goals and objectives. Oversees finances of Board of Directors, including preparation of long range forecast and monthly and annual budget reports. Plans, develops, and implements new programs and ideas, and confers with committee leaders to evaluate services and recommend methods to promote and increase membership involvement. Directs and coordinates association functions, such as conventions, exhibits, or local or regional workshops, to present membership with committee proposals on goals or objectives, familiarize membership or public with new technology or products, and increase public acceptance of membership objectives. Prepares and updates procedural manual. May conduct investigations on members' professional ethics, competence, or conduct, or financial responsibility of members to enforce quasi-legal standards of membership. May visit members' businesses to maintain goodwill, to encourage greater participation in organization activities, and to offer assistance to businesses experiencing reverses.
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Bitter Harvest
By Oliver North
8/17/2012
WASHINGTON -- In December 2009, our commander in chief went to West Point and proclaimed that he would withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by 2014. Since then, he has proudly emphasized that "We are on a course to end this war responsibly." Now U.S. and NATO troops and loyal Afghan soldiers and police officers are reaping the bitter harvest of the seeds that Barack Obama planted with those words.
Over the last 10 days, in five separate incidents, seven American military personnel were killed in what used to be called "green on blue attacks" -- where Afghan soldiers or police have assaulted their U.S. and NATO counterparts. Thus far this year, 37 coalition troops and civilians have been killed in 29 incidents of what the Pentagon now calls "insider attacks." According to figures released by the NATO command in Kabul, there were 11 such events in all last year, resulting in 20 deaths.
Until now, the Pentagon and NATO command in Kabul have maintained that these "sporadic incidents" were usually the consequence of "personal grievances" and "related to people getting into arguments." In March, after an insider attack that killed two British commandos, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the assaults by individuals wearing Afghan police or military uniforms weren't part of "any kind of broad pattern of activity." That perception has been altered by events on the ground in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, following two attacks perpetrated by Afghan nationals that resulted in six Marines killed and two wounded, U.S. Gen. James Amos, Marine Corps commandant, took the unusual step of issuing guidance to all U.S. Marine leaders. Amos, it should be recalled by my media colleagues, co-authored the "Counterinsurgency Manual" with Gen. David Petraeus; it was used as the guidebook for the fight in Afghanistan. In his letter dated Aug. 14, 2012, Amos notes that the recent assaults "were carefully crafted to drive a wedge between us and our Afghan partners." Importantly, he also warned his Marines: "More of these types of spectacular attacks can be expected..."
A day after the Amos message went out, Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged at least partial reality in a Pentagon press conference. They now say the Taliban is "resorting to these kinds of attacks to create havoc." But in that same press conference, Panetta, perhaps forgetting this is not a conventional war, claimed that "the Taliban has not been able to regain any territory lost..."
During the Q and A with reporters, Dempsey announced new measures to ameliorate the threat: the formation of a Joint Casualty Assessment Team -- JCAT -- to evaluate every aspect of each attack, increased counterintelligence "expertise" and a "conference" of "one-stars and above" to develop "thoughts about what more we might do."
Unfortunately, the Pentagon's fixes won't fix the problem of increasing insider attacks. We currently have 84,000 U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan. The Obama administration insists on dropping that number to 68,000 before the presidential election in November -- while simultaneously growing Afghan National Security Forces from 332,000 to more than 350,000. That's mission impossible.
The JCAT idea might have been a good one back in 2007, when NATO first began to tally insider attacks. Any study the JCAT produces now will be good for the history books but unlikely to stop the carnage over the next 12 months.
Improved intelligence on those entering, and counterintelligence about those already in the Afghan police and military services, would be a great idea. But institutional arrogance in U.S. intelligence agencies mandates a reliance on signals intelligence, SIGINT, not human intelligence, HUMINT, that would actually be effective in screening out and detecting Taliban infiltrators.
And if the Pentagon brass wants to know what needs to be done to mitigate the risk of these attacks, they ought to forget about a conference of generals and solicit ideas from the lieutenants and captains in the field who are living, fighting and dying beside loyal Afghan counterparts.
Finally, in what can only be a total lack of situational awareness, there is Panetta's assessment that insider attacks are designed to "create havoc" and his comment that success is measured by keeping the Taliban from regaining "any territory lost."
The radical Islamists in Afghan police and military garb who kill Americans don't care about territory. And havoc is simply a subsidiary effect -- collateral damage -- of an insider attack. The perpetrators of these assaults on American and NATO personnel have but one goal: killing an infidel.
Obama planted the seeds for all this when he publicly announced a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. His deadline is fertile ground for jihadis who know that their "window of opportunity" for murder is closing. We should expect the bitter harvest of "green on blue attacks" to produce a bumper crop of American casualties -- unless we hire a new commander in chief who knows how to fight a war and win.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on August 17, 2012, 04:30:59 PM
About Robert Hall ;D You are correct, I hit the wrong year! I meant Feb. 2009...Gettin' old! The rest stands. I had no problem at all with what he wrote. I just Googled him for more information, hence the question about his being an "Association Executive" for several unrelated organizations. I just don't know what that is. Thought one of you might know. I'm not saying anything bad about him, I just wondered.
Diane, I know what you mean about getting old. ;) Bob Hall wrote, "I'm Tired" in 2009... he just added some UPDATES to it later. As to "association executive," Ross pretty well covered that. :)
In response to a rash of Afghan soldiers and policemen turning their weapons on coalition troops, US and NATO forces are ordered to carry loaded weapons at all times while on base.
Warph,,The above is the new order, today, over the Affie cops shooting our soldiers and Marines. What I want to know is why in the hell haven't they been allowed to carry loaded weapons on base before? Last I heard it IS a combat zone !
Quote from: jarhead on August 17, 2012, 09:54:12 PM
In response to a rash of Afghan soldiers and policemen turning their weapons on coalition troops, US and NATO forces are ordered to carry loaded weapons at all times while on base.
Warph,,The above is the new order, today, over the Affie cops shooting our soldiers and Marines. What I want to know is why in the hell haven't they been allowed to carry loaded weapons on base before? Last I heard it IS a combat zone !
Right... there has always been alot of shit about this. We had to deal with the same kind of institutional stupidity in Vietnam. At one point in early 1969, following a series of accidental shootings, grunts couldn't carry their weapons with a round chambered, even when on combat operations. And I was told that applied to night operations deep in Indian Country.
I remember a company briefing as we were preparing to set up for the night several klicks from our base camp, where we were told by the company commander that as our men set up the defensive perimeter, we were to make sure they had no rounds chambered and to make sure they understood they were not to fire their weapons without clearance from the company TOC. Being a new AF intel 2nd looie, my job was to reconnoiter chopper LZs. Anyway I was in disbelief. I asked that army captain, 'Sir, you mean even if we receive fire from in close or our trip-flares start going off?" When he replied in the affirmative, that it was a new Field Force reg, I rolled my eyes which got me a quick ass-chewing and nipped any further protests in the bud.
Upon being dismissed, several of us had our own quick briefings and then went back to our positions and had our troops build shelved parapets in front of every fighting position. We then pooled our grenades and lined them up with the pens slightly crimped. The unofficial RoE for that night were if Charlie set off a trip-flare, toss a grenade out. We had no friendly units on any of our flanks and we knew damned well we didn't have time to wait for clearance from the TOC if the VC got in close enough to trip a booby trap. And, we rationalized, nothing had been said at the briefing about grenades. Fortunately, that night and the next were uneventful, and the ridiculous order from Field Force HQ was rescinded within 72 hours. However, we were periodically, and always temporarily, burdened with such idiocy when some staff genius back at Field Force got a similar brain-fart.
And yes, we made absolutely certain all those grenade pins were splayed wide again first thing each morning that ridiculous rule was in force. Tragically, that captain's TOC was overrun one night a few months later when VC got inside his perimeter in a very similar situation. Several troopers in his command element were killed or badly wounded. I never did find out if that f**kup was the result of some similar form of that foolish rule.
The real tragedy is that good troops die because of stupid rules imposed by military bureaucrats. And it will always be.
Warph,
I was in Nam in early 69 but thankfully in our AO, it was a free fire zone. I don't know of anyone who didn't stand lines,LP's and OP's, ambushes or even patrols that didn't have their selector switch on at least "semi auto" and some "full auto"---with a finger on the trigger. Even back at our rear area, LZ Stud (Vandergrift Combat Base) the safeties were on but a round was ALWAYS in the chamber. I guess we were the lucky ones.
The frags (grenades ) were another story. In May we manned a hill named LZ Catapult (hill 477 ) for almost a month ( the longest we ever had a "home" ), running ambushes and endless patrols off it. It was a less than 3 clicks from the DMZ. It got be an every night occurrence you would hear" Surfs up" meaning someone from 1st plt was throwing a frag. My plt,, 2nd, was "mail call" and 3rd herd was "chocolate cake". any of them meant get your head down. A good friend in 1st plt called Greenie threw a frag every night during his watch, which resulted into everyone scrambling for a hole and 100 % alert until they figured out we were not being attacked. The skipper passed the word to the platoon commanders that no one, with out exception, would throw a grenade with-out clearing it with their squad leader. That same very night we heard "surfs up" and ol Greenie threw a frag. His excuse was a "gook" was in the wire and he damn sure didn't have time to try to find his sleeping sqd ldr, in the dark, to get permission. The skipper gave up !!
To this day at our reunions Greenie still catches a lot of flak over his grenade throwing. I think he was either trying to stay awake or just got lonely. Now why didn't I do the same thing ? OK, maybe I did---but how was I supposed to know a rat chewing on a c-rat can sounded the same as a sapper in the wire? :angel: