Truth Does Not Equal Sedition

At the end of my last blog I wrote and said that at some point in time, the things that I write might be considered to be "seditious." I am sure that many of you who have read this probably think that I am out of my mind, or that I just can't see things in the larger picture of life or ,worse yet ,you might think that I am just not bright enough to really see that my beliefs and ideals are out of touch with reality. Perhaps I am, all the above things, perhaps I am so old fashioned that I have been extremely naive to the realities of this new brave world, I don't know and honestly I don't care. I, along with many others in a general way, have been branded by the United States Government as a potential terrorist for little more then loving my country, supporting the Constitution and literally defending it against our so called enemies. I am labeled as such because I believe in the freedom of speech, even for those that I disagree with. I am labeled as such because I am a gun owner, an Iraq war vet and a constitutionalists. I have not broken any laws, have upheld my oath and yet time and time again, I , and others just like me, are considered to be the dangerous ones. I have attempted, over the last few years to be as objective in my writing as I can be. I have attempted to put a humorous spin on things or to suggest that there are some, much simpler ways ,to do things then these convoluted ideas that our government comes up with. Yet I am either ignored or thought to be a fool. So be it. This is where the supposed seditious part starts so you might want to leave now, before they round you up for having thoughts of your own or a conscience. Our president and most of congress are traitors to the country and have violated the oath of office. Here is the presidential oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He has violated this oath time and time again , with his end runs around congress, and the Constitution that he is sworn to uphold, and Yes his predecessor did them same and is just as guilty. Congress has ignored it over and over again, and at least in a few cases openly scorned it or have suggested that we need to get rid of it or change it. How is that protecting or defending it? All of them need to be recalled and replaced. It isn't about skin color , and it isn't about party affiliation, because their predecessors were just as bad if not worse in some ways. The patriot act ,and the continuation of it, is in complete violation of more amendments to the constitution then I have time to write about. If any of you would take the time to search and really look at what has been done, all in the name of security, you would see it. This I realize will never happen because you would rather be entertained then informed, the death of a singer or the latest so called reality show or your FB status is more important to you then learning the truth,which is simply this; Your government is going out of it's way to destroy your rights and freedoms and they have a global agenda in mind. Here are just a few examples. Freedom of speech. Every time someone wants to speak out against the policies of the president or even have the nerve to question him, they are ostracized or ignored, and many times they are called racist, even if they are black. Ask Joe the plumber about being investigated for speaking his mind. Ask the General who couldn't speak at a military school because he was to controversial and CAIR protested. Ask Jewish students and leaders who try to speak out for Israel and they are shouted down. The only speech that you are allowed are those that the administration approves of or is considered politically correct. Freedom of speech means that you have the right to speak your mind even if that means some one is offended. I am of Cuban descent, if you wish to go out on a street corner and denounce all Cuban immigrants, you have that right. And while I will disagree with you as loudly as I can, I will also defend your right to say what you will. Yes, there can be consequences for what you say, but you still have the right to say them. Freedom of Religion. You have to be living under a rock to not see whats happening. The government, in clear violation of the Constitution, is telling the Catholic church, and really all religious institutions, that you have to follow the dictates of the government even though it goes against your conscience and morals. This is not entirely new,clergy of all kinds have been essentially told that they have to be careful what they preach on,because they could be held responsible for a hate crime ,if someone reacts wrong to something that they said, making broad assumptions that what happened was your intention. Then there are those, who on public streets have been arrested for nothing more then handing out Bibles. The list is long and endless but the bottom line is the agenda is to remove as much of religion and speech as possible. I will end this section with this thought; You may not agree with the Catholic church, (I am neither Catholic nor a Christian)on this issue ,but understand that once that breech has been made, it's only a matter of time before they come after what you believe to be morally wrong or your moral duty. Right to keep and bare arms. Right now the current administration is considering trying to ratify a treaty on small arms that the UN is proposing.This is little more then an attempt to end run the congress and the Constitution once again. This is not a hunter rights issue, this is an issue of every American citizen having the right to defend themselves from a tyrannical government and it's enforcers. Do you really want the UN to be the one who decides this issue? Do you really want a country where the only ones with the guns are the criminals, military and police? This is what Hitler did and millions died.This is whats being attempted here. The right of the people, peaceably, to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. A couple of years ago during the Republican convention, people were kept from protesting any where near where the convention was being held. I have watched, as time and time again, people from all walks of life have been arrested or escorted out of an public assembly, not because they were doing anything dangerous, but simply because they were voicing their opinion on what they believed was wrong. When Occupy Wall Street was peacefully protesting what they considered to be wrong, many times, they were arrested and hauled away. When the Tea Party spoke their minds,instead of the points of issue being debated they were mocked and ridiculed by the government and essentially dismissed and called racist. Their grievances still haven't been addressed. The rights of the people to be secure in their persons. The government has said that you no longer have that right either. You have no right to resist arrest. The police on the other hand have the right to enter your home and go through and remove all your personal effects for no other reason that you might be up to something. Meaning that if they smell something suspicious outside your door, with out a warrant, or real probable cause, they can bust into your home and arrest you on nothing more then suspicion. If you fly you are subject to search and naked body scans. If you take a bus or a train, or even stop at the right rest area, you can find yourself being randomly searched for no reason other then DHS says they can, again violating the Constitution. I am only up to number 4 and I have skipped a lot of stuff. Now of course along with the everything else, because of the NDAA act, you can be arrested and detained by the military or police ,for an indefinite period of time, for no more reason then you MIGHT do something. I know someone personally who this happened too so this isn't just hear say to me. Just writing this ,and telling you, that all this is a clear violation of everything that this country has ever stood for, could be enough to make me disappear for a long time, if for no other reason ,then to scare me into silence. We are spending more money then we have. Getting our selves closer to the edge of economic disaster and no one is stopping it. While many are getting poorer because of it, our congress people are getting remarkably richer. Bankers and Wall street are doing well while the working class and main street are falling apart. And no one is doing anything to stop it. Voter fraud and corruption charges have been filed in various parts of this country against officials of the two main parties. Meanwhile real voters ,at the primaries and caucuses, are having their votes disregarded in states such as Iowa and Maine because they don't match the already pre determined outcome.This is just plain wrong. We are a nation that has ignored it's own laws and Constitution from the top down and we then have the nerve to try and force other nations to follow our lead? We have become the modern day Romans and are ripe for total and complete collapse. This is what the globalist want. So there you have it. I am done supporting anything that this country does, until we go back to being a Constitutional Representative Republic. I won't support any party, or cause. I am not interested in voting because the two party system is a sham, it's a choice between two evils with the same, differently worded ideology. We have the illusion of being free but the reality is that we only have the freedom that we are willing to fight for and collectively we have stopped fighting. So am I being seditious? I don't think so, at least not according to Websters Dictionary,I am simply speaking the truth, but if in speaking that truth I am seen as such then so be it.

Attacks on the Constitution and Religion

I am not a Catholic. I am not Protestant. I am not a Christian,or Jew, though my leanings are definitely towards Judaism, but I am concerned for all of the above religions. In fact I will take it just a bit further and say that I am worried about where this country is heading in regards to our constitution and our God given rights. Last week, as most of you who pay attention anyhow, know, the Obama administration decided that it would make it mandatory for religious institutions to provide everything from birth control to abortions through mandated insurance for their employees. In effect saying to them that even though it is against your religious beliefs to do so, we, "The Government", are going to force you to do this. Besides the fact that it violates the conscience of many religious groups, it is also a clear violation of the First Amendment which states very clearly: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. " I have heard this used time and time again to keep separate church and state and yet, when it's convenient to do so, the government is going to violate it for their own purposes? I have heard it argued that a vast number of the above named groups use contraception any how but that is not really the point. The point is that the government does not have the right to force you to violate your conscience whether or not they think it's good for you. None of this is new of course. I asked someone, a Christian friend, 20 some odd years ago, when the great witch hunt for smokers was going on, where does it stop? At that time, as most of you probably remember, smoking and smokers were being hunted down almost like dogs and some were actually calling for the government to ban cigarettes or at least tax them so high as to bankrupt the tobacco companies, which of course were the most vile of all groups, and so I asked the question then, if the government interferes here in our lives where does it stop? Even if it is with the best of intentions it goes way beyond what they were ever intended to do and what if the thing that you love or like to do suddenly becomes the next target? Where does it stop? Today it seems that the entire Constitution is under attack in one form or another and there are those in powerful positions who are calling for it to be changed or ignored. It has become PC to attack the very document that points out our God given rights to even have this conversation. We have groups such as DHS that would suggest that people like me, a war vet, Libertarian, constitutionalists are actually the enemy now, because I believe in freedom and liberty as guaranteed by that very Constitution. I should point out that unless you live under a rock you likely fit into one of their terrorist categories as well. None of this really surprises me. The constitution has been under full blown attack for the past 12 years at least and religion for at least the last 20 in both the private and public arenas. Two recent examples a Supreme Court Justice, suggested in an interview that the constitution was too restrictive and that if she was looking for a model she would go with something like South Africa uses. This is a someone, who is supposed to uphold and defend the Constitution and yet she belittles it internationally. Of course when you have presidents, past and present, who do end runs around the congress and the Constitution, and in congress people who ignore the Constitution in favor of PC or who pays the most, I don't suppose I should expect any less. The religion part is easy to spot as well. Military Chaplains being told what they can and cannot say to their congregations, They cant invoke the name of their god in their prayers. A prominent university, is threatening to ban religious organizations unless they are all inclusive of people,including those who are fundamentally opposed to what they stand for. If you are going to be a part of a group shouldn't you be expected to have similar beliefs? That's like saying that the Marine Corp League should allow members of Code Pink to join them with out ever having served in the Marines. It makes no sense. At what point do we , as Americans, say enough already? We have become a nation of people that allow the nanny state to rule everything we do. We have become a nation of sheeple who just sit back and watch or even actively promote those who would destroy our Constitution, somehow convincing ourselves that this is for our own good, not realizing that we are but inches away from full blown tyranny. You can ignore me, I am not a powerful person, I am but a patriot who has served his country and loves what this country use to be, but mark my words when I tell you that the day is coming when we won't even be able to have this conversation because it will be considered to be seditious, but that's a subject for another day. Semper Fi

Alternate Universes.

Imagine waking up in a world that is different then the one you went to sleep in. Not in huge ways, but in little ways. The bed sheets are different, the curtains are blue when you remember them being green the night before. You go to work, only to discover that your department is in another building then the one you had always gone to and that you are the manager, whereas yesterday you had just been a part of the staff. You go home sick and confused because you know something isn't right, and waiting for you is a spouse that you don't remember having, yet she is the sweetheart that you had in high school. Sounds kind of freaky doesn't it? How about getting off of a plane in a country that you have visited many times only to be told that your passport is no good because the country it's from doesn't exist and as far as they know, never existed. Yet, you know it's real, you can see it in your mind, you have money in your wallet from that nation and even your driver's license says that you are, yet no one has ever heard of the place.

What would you do if you found yourself in that situation? The people I read about, and there were more then just the two, are understandably upset. People are telling them that they are crazy and confused. Yet, in all these cases the people who are experiencing this will insist that this is really happening to them, that they have some how shifted into an alternate or parallel universe.

I read these two stories from an alternative news sight that has everything from normal news, if there is such a thing anymore, to out right weird and all points in between. I don't claim that these stories are true (I did change some of the details and left out names though I stayed true to the intent) but the idea "Intersecting Alternate Realities" really fascinates me.

The basic concept, very simply put, suggests that every decision that we make or don't make happens in an alternate universe, and because we have so many decisions that we make every day that the alternates realities just go on and on. It is also suggested that from time to time some of these alternates intersect with each other causing these anomalies to happen and people get moved from one to the other, not everyone mind you, but just people in the right place and time. Now, before you dismiss this as just being totally insane, understand that Quantum Physics says that all this is mathematically possible.

Now to the point. I wonder to myself how many of us go through our lives wishing that we were living in an alternate reality. We spend a lot of time looking backwards and regretting decisions that we made many years ago and then pondering what life might have been like if we had decided differently. I can use my self as an example. What would have happened if I had gone to college instead of going into the military? Or a trade school?

First off, I wouldn't have been in the Iraq war dealing with consequences both physically and mentally but then I likely would not have married my wife either. She was 5 years behind me in school and while we were all a part of the same religious persuasion, and we would have likely have gone to the same college, because I was so far ahead of her I would have likely gotten together with someone else and our paths might have crossed but not in the same way. By joining the military when I did, it set the stage for us to meet via mutual friends and here we are now with 22 years of being together, 21 of them married and the 5 years of difference doesn't matter.

Here is another thought; you might be where you are because G-D knows that you can handle it. I was complaining one day about my physical condition to a Rabbi friend and he suggested to me that I was in this position because G-D knows that I can handle it and make some good come from it. That blew me away. Take something that is painful and down right humbling at times and use it for good? I had never even considered that thought before. So it could be said for all of us, perhaps rather then wishing we were elsewhere in time and place we could look and decide for our self to make this time and place a little better.

Then think about what would happen if you weren't here or had never been. Most of us go through our lives never really knowing how much we affect others around us, that's partially because we don't generally let others know how much we appreciate them until we are at their funerals, but I also think it's because life comes at us so fast that we simply miss the influence we have. In the movie "Its A Wonderful Life" George Bailey gets a chance to see just how much his life has impacted others after he declares that it would have been better if he hadn't been born. Every thing from his brother drowning, thus causing a bunch of soldiers to die on a troop transport years later, to his wife becoming a old maid, and his home town becoming a bad place to be was shown to him, and it all happened because he hadn't been born. He returns to this life in no less trouble but he sees his life from a much different perspective.

None of us are likely to be as lucky as he was and get the chance to see what it would be like without us, so it is up to us to live the life that G-D has given us to the fullest. The formula is for it is actually quite easy. Love G-D and Love people. You do those two things and you probably won't want to be elsewhere in time or space.

The people that I mentioned in the beginning, according to the story, are not very happy campers. If it is true that they have been removed from their time and space it is also just as understandable that they wish to go back, so be careful what you wish for or you may wake up one day wondering who changed the curtains.....

Oklahoma And Sharia Law

Today I am afraid. I am not afraid for me exactly. I am afraid for you. I am afraid for your children and mine and for the generations to come.

The reason that I am afraid is because we are stupid. Yes ,I said stupid, and yes I included myself in this. Never, in known world history, has a nation of people been so ignorant and totally bent on their own destruction as we are. Today it became evident to me just how bent on that destruction we are.

In Oklahoma a Federal Judge ruled that the state cannot bar the use of Sharia law or other international laws when a court is deciding on a case. This is patently absurd. Here in the United States we have our own laws and our own Constitution to follow, we don't don't need other nations or religious laws to supersede, or to be used in place of, our own. This is little more then political correctness run amok.

Some of you might be thinking that I am prejudiced against Islam or the Muslim community. I am not. But we don't need their religious law to even be considered. What is truly scary is that some of you who will undoubtedly embrace this idea would become some of it's first victims if it ever was fully used here in the US. Lets have a look shall we?

To my gay friends and family, do you want to be hanged or stoned to death for being gay? I have seen it happen and it's acceptable under Sharia and other Muslim religious laws. How about you who might cheat on your spouse? It's wrong to do so, but should you be dragged out in your underwear and stoned to death because of it? I am not giving you hearsay, this what I have seen, these are the things that make up my nightmares. How about if you fall in love with someone that your family doesn't approve of? Should they have the right to cut your head off because of "family honor ?" I saw a couple get stoned to death for that. How about it ladies do you want to walk several paces behind your husband in a Burqa and if your caught even looking at a man who is not family you can be killed or at the least beaten? These are facts. This is what happens when Sharia is enforced. How about it parents, do you want the religious police to arrest your daughters to check them for virginity? Or for her to whipped for being the victim of a gang rape? How about it my Christian and Jewish brothers and sisters, do you want to forced to convert or be killed for not doing so?

All of the above scenarios happen everyday in Islamic countries, some I have witnessed,others I have seen via the internet and news, all of it makes me afraid for this nation.

So let us then take this to it's next logical conclusion. If we can use Sharia law along with other international law when deciding cases, then we should be able to use all all the laws that are found within the Judeo - Christian scriptures as well. That is 613 laws for the record, not just the better known 10. This of course won't ever happen because it's politically correct to attack Jews and Christians not embrace them. Not to mention that if you don't follow those laws their followers aren't likely going to try and kill you. No ,Instead we would rather have laws followed by and written by people who have made it very clear that their intent is to destroy us and to control the world. We are stupid. They are using our own laws against us and someday we are going to pay a heavy price for it.

It really shouldn't surprise me that a Federal judge would rule this way. They have spent the last 20 years or so destroying the constitution, ruling from the bench their own personal opinions rather then ruling based on the constitution, and with the help of the last few administrations, ignoring common sense in favor of corporations and political correctness.

We should not be changing our laws to accommodate Islam. If Islam wants to be in this country then they need to follow our laws and customs. If not they can go back to their countries of origin and take their Sharia law with them. Its that simple.

Iowa Doesn't Matter?? Really ??

I admittedly do not understand a lot of things about politics. To me most of the problems have rather simple solutions and the real problem is finding people with the guts enough to actually act on those simple solutions. Most of you understand this because you have to take care of business at home and so you understand the basics of what the folks in DC don't seem to grasp.
Now that we have entered into January the full political campaign season is well underway and, with the Iowa caucus now being over, the true main stream media bias has kicked in as well. If it was not so blatant it would almost be amusing.
By now most of you know the results, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in a tie, with Ron Paul coming in a very respectable third. Yet you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the MSM who finds this as being relevant. Ron Paul easily beat three other candidates who had much more money power and air time, and came close to tying with the top two, and yet he is virtually ignored. In fact I heard many a commentator claim that Iowa really doesn't mean anything anyhow, so the results really don't matter. This is where the BS factor comes in.
First consider Rick Santorum. Who would have thought that he would come from the bottom of the pile to give Mitt a run for his money? He only lost by 8 votes. If this was a general election they would have had to do a recount. That doesn't mean anything? Then Ron Paul gets 22 percent of the vote after being disregarded by the MSM as being unimportant or, worse yet, a crackpot, yet some how he manages to resonate with enough people to come in a respectable third. This is not important?
I am not a Republican nor a Democrat, as I have said on many occasions. I said in the beginning I don't claim to understand all the nuances of politics but to me the idea that somehow this isn't important tells me just how badly the republican party and the MSM misunderstand the people of America and just what it is they are looking for.
Let me see if I can put this simply enough for the MSM and the powers that be to understand. They are looking for real leadership. They are looking for someone who will do as they say and not play political double speech. They want somebody to not only recognize that there is a problem in DC but someone who is willing to put their political money where there rhetoric is. They want leadership that will actually follow the constitution and bill of rights instead of ignoring and destroying it for political gain or for some special interest groups. This is not difficult to understand.
President Obama understood that this is what the people were looking for, so he played that to the hilt, and won huge. These are still the things that the American people are looking for. Obama, for all his rhetoric ,didn't deliver, so this is why the proverbial underdogs are being voted for. Most people want real change.
So to suggest that somehow these results are insignificant begs some questions ; what is it that the political talking heads and MSM from both political parties so afraid of? What are they going to say if this continues on into New Hampshire and other states? Is it only going to count and matter when it's the party favorite or media darling that wins?
I know that this is but one caucus and there is a long way to go yet, and who knows how the political winds will shift, but you can't afford to ignore the results just because they are not the results you wanted or were expecting. That's just my simple minded sense.

End of 2011

So here we are at the end of 2011. This year will go down in the record books for everything from record storms to record spending. The Iraq war has come to an end, though we are still fighting in other parts of the world, the presidential race is in full swing and millions are still without work. Meanwhile our president gets to spend 4 million to have the holidays in Hawaii and Nancy Pelosi spends $10,000 a night on a posh hotel.

A report came out this week pointing out that the average congressperson is making over 50 times that of the average household and over the last 20 years their actual worth has tripled while ours has gone down. The price of everything under the sun has gone up.

Government people on both sides of the aisle are pandering so much to the far fringes of their respective parties that our economy is in danger of total collapse because no one will compromise on anything.

The patriot act was reinforced with new measures that can allow you to be detained indefinitely on nothing more then mere suspicion. Now not only can you be searched randomly at the airport you can get it on the bus/ train and while your at a rest stop on the highway. In short you are now the enemy the government fears.....

The list of things could go on but this really isn't the point.

When this New Year celebration is over and politics is in full swing once again, you are going to be asked to make a choice. Before you make that choice you need to ask yourself a few questions. #1 Am I better off then I was before Jan. 2009 or worse. How about my friends and neighbors? #2 Is our country and our economy any better off? #3 Do you have more or less freedoms and liberties then you once had, you may need to actually read the Constitution for that answer and then compare it to new laws and regulations. #4 Are the people currently in office or those running really representing you and me and do they really understand what is going on out here in the real world?

I can answer the questions only for myself #1 I am by far worse off, some of it is my own responsibility, and I take ownership of that fact, but I didn't ruin the economy and cause the cost of everything to sky rocket. I don't know anyone who is not scrambling to make ends meet.

#2 The stock market goes up and down but it doesn't do a thing for the millions not working. You can't continue spending when there is nothing left to spend, that's called simple math.

#3 I have read the bills that have been passed and the amendments that have gone with them and all I can say is we are only the land of the free if the government allows it. Everything from your right to peaceably assemble and freedom of speech to your privacy has been under attack. Very quietly and, with the help of most of the media, under the radar, but it has been there. Your freedom is only an illusion.

#4 Christmas in Hawaii? Ten Thousand a night for a posh hotel room? Making 50 times what you and I do, (insider trading) and their personal worth continues to go up, while ours go down? Enough said.

I am not telling you who to vote for. I despise both major parties and believe that they are nothing more then differing wings with the same intent. But these are things that you need to really ask yourself before you vote.

One other thing though, before you vote, know who it is that you are voting for. I watched in total disbelief as people were interviewed during the last presidential election and they didn't know who was who or what it was that they stood for and yet they were there to vote. I don't care if they are pretty or speak well or what their ethnic background is. Research what they support based not only on their rhetoric but on their actual votes or lack thereof. Character does matter. Only support those who take "defending the constitution of the United States" seriously.

Seems that many, if not most, don't take the oath seriously, If they as our representatives won't do that then they don't need to be elected. That includes the president.
Choose wisely.

Super Committee

Let me start off by saying straight out that I don't care for either of our major political parties. When I hear them speak, all I hear is differing versions of how they want to spend our money and what they want to spend it on, while blaming the other side for issues that both sides created and then deny ever having a part of. You need to know this lest you think that in the following commentary that I am picking on one party over another, I am not. The fault belongs to all.

When Obama was running for president he spent his time blaming Bush and the republicans for the budget mess, and certainly Bush had a hand in creating it ,but everyone forgets that from 2006 until 2010 the democrats controlled both the house and the senate and they did nothing to fix the budget or even pass a budget. But this mess didn't happen overnight, everyone from both parties have been complicit in this it has taken us years to get to this point.

Now, instead of doing the job that they were elected to do,in a clear violation of the constitution (See Article 1 section 7 paragraph 1 of the Constitution), they have handed off the responsibility to 12 people in what is being called a "Super Committee". These 12 people, 6 from either party, control the fate of everything from the military to social security. These 12 people literally control the fate of 310 million Americans and quite possibly the economic fates of the industrialized world.

What does anyone, setting aside the legality of the committee, really think is going to get accomplished ? These 12 people have been around for a long time and they are all a part of the original problem. It's like asking Jack the Ripper to babysit your sexy girlfriend and giving him a sharp knife. Worse yet is that anything that they decide won't effect them personally so they don't really have anything to lose, except for maybe an election, and perhaps that's the real truth behind all the indecision and lack of real budget passing.

If the House of Representatives , and the Senate, would do the job that they are constitutionally elected to do, they would make powerful people angry, and they would lose votes and possibly the next election and all the power that it entails, so it was easier for them to allow the formation of this committee. If the committee fails, the focus falls on them rather then those who should have fixed the budget in the first place. It all boils down to keeping control and power.

If you think I'm just guessing, take a cruise through cyber space looking for articles concerning the committee. You won't find many. And the ones that you do find are more interested in what the political fall out will be rather then what their decisions will do to the nation if not the world.

This is what I like to refer to as insanity. The fates of millions if not billions rests on the decisions of small group of very partisan people, who do not have the constitutional authority to make those decisions, just prior to an election cycle, and all any one can say about this is that the President may or may not get re-elected based on the outcome?!

Understand that anything that they come up with is likely to affect me personally. There has been much talk, mostly rumor for the moment, of everything from pay cuts for veterans to co-pay's for the services we receive from the VA and admittedly it makes me very nervous. But the bigger picture is that if they don't come up with something that is feasible and tangible for everyone, we are all go to pay heavily.

So as we get closer to the deadline, remember that the mainstream media is thinking elections, not people, and anything that the super committee decides will be a reflection on that, it has little to do with you and me, it has all to do with who has control at the end of next year.