Filled with rage

The cop told me that I should not worry about the stop sign ticket because:  It,s not a moving violation, so I shouldn't worry.  OK.  Several weeks later I went to pay the ticket in Wayzata , Mn.  The clerk explained that it was a moving violation and that I now had 6 pts on my record.  Three more and my license would be revoked.  In a fit of anger I said "God Damn this fucking country I wish it would burn"  The man standing next to me became very upset.  It turned out that he was connected to the prosecutors office and wrote me a ticket for using foul language..*  So i ended up in front of a judge.  The Judge threw the ticket out.  Where upon, the Prosecuter jumped up and said  "But Your Honor Did You hear what he said?"  The Judge said "Shut Up and sit down".   Of course , I was greatly relieved, There were lots of patriots willing to hang me high.

All of this started with a cop lying to a young father and mother taking here first born for his first Easter-spring ride.

More importantly, My best Craig Egge had been killed after being in Vietnam 8 days.
Before he left for the marines, he told me that he wanted to prove himself a man.   That was my second military funeral.  I remember to this day Craig being rolled down the aisle, the last time i saw him he was walking and full of life.  Once again taps, the folded flag, the incredible sadness..

I was ashamed of myself for the words I spoke.. To this day I,ve never mentioned it to anyone. for shame.

It,s been a longtime since then.  America has continued it,s killing spree:  58,000 Americans most in there 20's some 18 like Craig.  It was Nasty! punji sticks**, round the clock bombing of  N. Vietnam, the Tet- offensive*** which heralded the coming end of the war.  The USA had abandoned its village pacification program.  The villagers were now our enemies, we killed them and burned their villages. In the most famous incident, "MeLai",  Lieutenent Calley ordered his men to kill everyone.  Three hundred fifty or so .  Bodies everywhere!, babies, kids, moms, dads and old men /women... bodies everywhere...Village burned to the ground..  I learned recently that this was "standard operating procedure" in Cambodia.  If villagers gave any help to the "Cong" Gooks" etc. the village was raised ie. burned to the ground.  I believe that this behavior was what "Apocalypse Now" was/is about.  A mad Cornel  That was fighting beyond what was thought to be righteous.. Except for the fact that he kept his village safe and secure--in the end he,s had enough he waits for his executioner to arrive, to do his job.  He mutters "the horror, The Horror"  recalling the red cross vaccinating the children for polio.  The villagers response ?  They cut off the arm of every child because whites were enemies and not to be trusted.  ":the Horror" a pile of little arms..The Colonel,  hung the bodies of his enemies around the village. The Kmer Rouge took it a step further, they pilled skulls everywhere..

This same thing has been happening in Afghanistan.  Simple villagers don,t understand vaccines..Why would we save 5 yr olds when were killing 15 yr olds?  I remember how thrilled I was to be vaccinated against polio..Think about it. 58000 boys saved (vaccinated) , 58000 KIA.. Stupidity reigns

The war ended , unofficially, when our draftees started "fragging" their Officers who would not fight, would not go on patrol.  They sat in their Bunkers cleaning their fingernails,  while their men died in firefights and 100 other ways.   So, our resourceful draftees started rolling grenades into the Officers bunkers..  This is when the war really ended.  Of course, officially it ended with helicopters being pushed off carrier decks, to make room for more people...Of course the war didn,t really end until the Paris accords that our renowned Sec of State, "Dr Strangelove"  Henri Kissinger  arranged, with "Honor of course"

***Senator Ms. Bachman from Minnesota, in 2012 claimed this was where we turned the tide.


**bamboo sticks covered in feces, to be stepped on, * don,t remember all the details..

A Better Way!

Practical advice for all Americans
Pragmatic dealings with the Worlds many demands

 @JohnKerry @DeptofDefense @PresObama:
Abandon DominoTheory!
  
Embrace new 21st. Century World Policy
Propose,
 A World Space Organization of cooperation between all countries of the World.  Starting with Russia, Europe, China, India and others who would like to journey to Mars and start our Worlds first incubator.  We have Terriformed Earth, why not Terriform Mars?  And, 
Why Not give the World a new vision?,  a Common Goal.?
 
America has pursued a reverse "Domino Theory" for the last 65? years.!   The World today is involved in a predatoy relationship with the United States and it"s Allies. 
This can not continue.
 
Lets have a New 21st.  World Community Goal!  A "NWCG"  if you like!  Powered by an agreement that new Spaceports will have to be built,  that the Big Players, that are solvent, can certify a certain amout of cash or property (site) so the World can take part in going to Mars and living on Mars.  The Worlds 1st.  worthy, common Goal!   Are we up to this task?, this common Dream?,  or will we continue to follow "Manifest Destiny and the Domino Theory"?  We have spent Trillions rubbleizing the World and killing everyone in sight.  They hate us, and rightfully so.  It can't continue!  We need to change some of our plows into plowshares and make a new 21st. century Foreign Policy.
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Russia-Turkey rapprochement has limitsRussia-Turkey rapprochement has limits

As a born again Christian, my personal opinion is that the President does not set Foreign Policy.  If Ecumenicals want peace, Blame the Joint Chiefs, The Dept of Defense, the Pentagon and of course Americas own Tribe of #kittykutter Torturers in the CIA.  
Ecumenical Christians!, Your Hero's, are killers and torturers.  You want, bath house beatings, summary executions by Americas Police forces, white KKK Ecumenicals hanging minorities or worse throwing a chain around a minority and dragging them until they fall apart.  Ecumenicals cheered when Christian Thugs kill abortion providers.  In the world you want, you are on top ... everybody else is shit.  Ecumenical Killers hiding within the Gospel of Jesus Christ, while worshiping the Old Testament
I have bad news for You,  The world is Brown, "Not White".  Jesus Christs NEW Testament rules the modern world.  The Old Testament is for Historical reference onlyWho the HELL is "the stream"? I say Fuck "the stream"! whatever or whomever thinks they are morally superior to the people who are commenting . I however, agree that decorum is important, not because of you (who/what are you) but because name-calling indicates a lack of brain power and a person consumed by hate/rage. I personally stop reading at the first signs of name calling. This is the reason why I blocked Donald Trump on twitter. I don't want to listen to his pottymouth

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  Robert M Ramstad • an hour ago Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by The Stream.

Letter to Rachael "asking for forgiveness"

 May I say. I've thought a lot about what happened on my visit to the Ramstad house in Ballard. I was totally and completely crushed by your daughters, "My mind has so completely blocked the names of your children that it refuses to remember their names. it is so sad it can't continue" wiggling out of my arms .. "when the very nite before she happily showed me her princess outfit" I was completely stunned and taken back by what happened ... i was stopped. And remained so for many years festering in  my soul festering in my gut, rotten!   So here I'm today asking for forgiveness because, maybe I was thinking only about me, ... as usual.  Maybe, everyone was as shocked, as I was, when (she)wriggled out of my arms. and i totally over reacted to and misinterpreted it ... and maybe I just completely over reacted to it and found guilty parties who were just as stunned as I was. And so I lost my children and grand-children. I am completely broken. Well, as, Usual, my deadbeat, unemployed, pot-head friend has just arrived and so, I must go. I ask for your forgivevness of my sins even if they are un-forgivable feelings and stupidity seem to go hand-in-hand, and of course, he is talking on the phone so he doesn't have to watch me cry.

Re-Thinking Israel

Everything you say is true.  But, Israel is becoming a failed state because Israel has not been able to make peace with Palestinians. So,perhaps it's time to rethink Israel.  What does God want?  I do not see his hand working in Israel.  Maybe, God wants His Jews to be scattered across the Globe.  Maybe he wants Palestine to be a World Heritage site.
I consider Jews to be an extremely valuable asset for the world.  America has been blessed because of Jews and it is possible that Jews are the most valuable or as valuable as America's other treasures.
Maybe, we should help make Jerusalem a world heritage site, the financial hub of the Middle East/World.
Maybe the United Nations should run Palestine as a duty free hub for Europe, Africa and Asia. 
The key to peace is to give every person a stake in peace by giving them a piece of the action like Washington D.C. and the Virginia, Maryland suburbs.
Maybe it's time to rethink Israel?

Rethinking the Middle East

It pisses me off!  Gen. Nicolson was trained by the losers of the Vietnam War.  As such,  Gen. Nicolson must believe that the people lost the war in Vietnam Not the Generals.  And the commanders were fragged by cowards that didn't want to fight...Not because the commanders hid behind blast-proof walls and wouldn't lead the fight.  Gen Nicolson was born in Germany to a Father who was a General.  He attended private schools in Germany and exclusive Schools thru-out his career including West Point.  He's no leader of Men.  Perhaps It's time to pull the pin and roll the dice.?
I predict that ISIS, ISIL, whatever, That Wahabi Head-choppers will line up 6 American G.I.s and remove their heads.  What will General Nicolson do then?  We've already leveled their countries, tortured, fried and frick-a-see them while calling them Barbarians.  Go figure!
The only way Gen. Nicolson can lead is if the USA Dept of State makes a Strategic turn in the Middle East.  Secretary of State John Kerry says that this is a clash between civilized countries and Barbarians.  If that is the case, the bookends Are now in place to make the turn.  We should honor the barbarians desire to be barbarians.  Our need for their oil isn't as necessary as it was in the past.  They spend 50 fifty cents to kill us and we spend a million to kill them.  So, who is winning and who are the dumb ass'ss ?