Political and Miscellaneous Articles by: Dennis L. Siluk

A Letter to Huancayo

2009-11-02T06:51:00.000-08:00

By, Poet Laureate, Rev., Dennis L. Siluk

10/9/2009

It should be known that the salvation in Christ is no new news, but a thing that has been told to all old and young alike—in Godly conversations and in all news medias, schools and Churches as well, accordingly, as they have now been aware by the word of God of what is expected of them,
This poet, and writer of Jesus Christ to the strangers and citizens throughout Huancayo, the Mantaro Valley region and beyond,
Throughout the waking hours of this morning, though the sanctification of the Spirit, I felt I was instructed to write a letter to the City of Huancayo, instructed to follow the First Epistle of Peter ((as a guideline, no more than that)(in doing so, it should be understood, this is simply a message or a warning, not to be considered anything other than that, God is not inclined to add or subtract from His Biblical words, or in giving new prophecies—in the sense of those given in the Old and New Testaments, but it should not be misunderstood, or underestimated a forewarning, a premonition, is different, and it is what I received, and I believe in my heart and soul, God has not stopped giving such signs, or has stopped doing miracles)) —blessed be the Trinity who has shown mercy upon this naked city, and gives it living hope—this call unto the city’s inhabitants is to renew its inheritance, to once again become incorruptible and undefiled, and it His blessing to be, that is reserved in heaven for you,
That now is the true trial of your heart, and faith, this being to the Lord of Hosts, much more precious than of gold that parishes— For all are tried in fire, with fire and should they be found unto no praise, nor honor and glory of the words and commandments of the Lord, Jesus Christ, whom (if) He has not seen your love, if you be un-rejoiced with unspeakable criminal minds and full of pride: this is the end of your faith, even to your salvation of your souls, unto whom this is revealed, unto Huancayo, unto themselves, these things written, are to be ministered, which are now reported, and given to you, written into this letter—you are at the end of your grace, which will be taken away from you. Therefore be obedient as children, not going your own ways, according to your former lusts, greed, to be righteous in all manners, be holy for I am watching.
And if you do not show respect by your heart and actions, and call unto the Father without fear, with a vain conversation—you will not be received; being born again, not of corruptible thinking as you are now. The city shall wither like the grass, and the diseased bushes, but by keeping the word of the Lord, the city endured forever. And by this letter it is expressed unto you.

Exposure (And I was lead, and felt inspired from the Book of Revelation):

Greet one another with a fresh heart and a kiss of good will…

He that is unjust, he that is filthy, let him be, I come quickly and my rewards are with me, to give every man and woman, and child of reason, according to thy works.
Blessed are they that keep the commandments.

Last Words (And I was reminded, and lead to the book of Jonah):

…the people of the city and its surroundings (of Huancayo), it will be like in the days of Jonah (for this poet does not care to address the city, in particular), I will send out a Great Whale and winds likened unto the sea, a mighty tempest, and the city likened unto a ship will be broken, and the shipmasters (such as: the mayors, and leaders of the cities of the Mantaro Valley region, and beyond…) will cry for mercy, and some will curse the Lord God, but the latter will be worthless, and like Jonah inside the whale, God Almighty, will not spit out the evil back upon the good. And perhaps spare the cities.

A Personal Note: It would seem to me, many people will think this is some farce; this writer cannot give a message from God to us or an inspired point in a like manner. But let’s look at it a different way. The Pope feels he is giving to the people an inspired message from God at times, as well as the Bishop of Huancayo I would think, or perhaps the T.V. Evangelists, as well as the mayors of the region feel at times the same thing; as we know politicians of this region often do, they make the sigh of the cross in front of a mass of people, and pray in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary, and praise the Lord all the way to the bank, or to the construction company to get their free handout. In other words, no matter who is giving the message, and if it be in the name of the Lord, pray for decipherment, discernment and, as Christ said, “In those latter days, there will be many false prophets,” and so true that is. And remember, God often times uses the usable, and available… not always the most outspoken, or the person with the most artful voice; also look at the persons reputation, his or her standing, works, and how they act, not how good of an actor they are. I have noticed in Huancayo, the people have very short memories, make the person preaching, or working for you, or God, accountable.

Obama Honored for Noble? (God Help us All)

2009-10-19T15:41:00.000-07:00

After hearing Obama was honored for the Noble Peace Prize, my wife asked: “Is there something wrong out there in this world,” she hesitated for my answer, not hearing one, or getting one, then added “is the world wrong, or am I?” she said (after reading the news of Obama’s Nobel Prize, and I knew what she meant). “The world!” I answered.

I really don’t have to say this too loud, everyone out there kind of knows this, it’s about war and peace, (the war in Iraq, that Bush put a settlement to, and date onto, to officially stop it, not Obama) Yet Obama gets the prize, which he pretended to shock him, when he knew 17-days into office he was going to get it, not for what he done, but what he said he was going to do. We all know Obama has done nothing for peace, rather war.
I haven’t written about Obama for three months trying to see where he’s headed, and it looks to me as if he’s going in circles—or looking in the mirror too much. And if anyone ever buffaloed the public, it is he (Hitler once said: “…it is easier to fool the masses, than the few…” how right he was); Obama has done nothing for nobody but Obama. And in this last straw that I feel broke the camels back, is giving him the Nobel Prize for continuing Ex-president Bush’s policies.
It only makes the price look less than what it is suppose to be, meant to be. When someone got the Peace Prize, years ago—now perhaps decades ago, to include the peace prize and the prize for literature, they were outstanding, not stale as old bread.
I heard they had over 200-choices, for the peace prize, God help us all, if this is the best they can choose from. On the other hand, it looks as if the Nobel Committee would like to put a kind of grip on the president’s power; you know what I mean—one of those things that say “You owe us.” In essence, he took an award here that he knew nothing about, he’s never been in war, never been a soldier of any kind, and it shows—and he even admitted he didn’t deserve the prize, but he took it like a hawk stealing a chicken from a farmer’s chicken coop.
He will go down in history as the most manipulative president if not worthless in the history of the United States. And perhaps who has done the less for his country and the world at large. But he plays the game on ‘hope’ a good word to plant your seeds and hurry up and harvest the grain before people catch on.

This is the second time he took an award he never deserved. He took a Doctorate Degree from a Catholic University, for being pro abortion, which is honoring him for his beliefs; I can see it for being an outstanding President, but he hadn’t done anything to be outstanding. His record proves it.
This is perhaps in my book the weakest if not useless president we’ve had in 60-years. President Bush was criticized for his actions, and Obama is doing the same thing—if not worse, and is honored, how silly can the public be.
He’s left over 50,000 troops in Iraq, he’s sent 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan, he’s done nothing to stop Iran or North Korea in preventing nuclear proliferation, but a little talk therapy, which Bush done for eight-years, nothing new. If he’s done anything in the North Korean dilemma, he has done nothing, and that is called nowadays by the press, as something—silence, the media itself when it comes to Obama, is on that ‘hope list,’ I do believe.
Bush gave $600-dollars to each working American family in America, a rebate, Obama, gave $250, and it seemed by the look on his face, he took it out of his own pockets, sitting in his three-million dollar mansion—; remembering now, when he was running for president how he made fun of his opponent for having three houses; he just made a million, he can reconstruct a new garage, for his five cars (?), making it a four-million dollar home which it will be.
Obama gave away over 50-billion, to the rich, tax free (because of oversights within our system) another 50-billion for reconstruction of things that don’t need reconstruction, and new construction, throughout the United States that could have been used for better means—like propping the economy, what does the construction worker get per hour, vs. what does the homemaker get? And everyone overlooked what he gave away. We need to pay for the heat, the water bill, and the grocery bill, not building more roads, and parks, there is a time for that, but it is not now.
The dollar went up, because of ‘hope,’ throughout the world, the dollar is now going back down, and because of regret in the hope that was a farce.
Like it or not, we have to live with this President, I do hope for our sakes he does better in the long run, than he has in the short run (it might be wise if we all pray for him, to mend his ways) if not, all we are going to see is a man looking in a mirror, glorifying himself, from corner to corner for doing nothing.

Written as a true and concerned and decorated Vietnam Veteran for American, October 10, 2009

Fiesta de Gringos

2009-10-08T13:43:00.000-07:00

(In, Costa Rica)

(By: CostaRicaHQ.com)

Every year on July 4th, there is a: ‘U.S. Citizen only Party,’ from 8 a.m.,-noon. It costs either $4-American dollars or 2,000-colones to get in. It also takes a U.S. passport.
Inside the fiesta area, everything is free. Beer is included (seems odd for a morning party, but be that as it may); to include such food items as: Pepsi, bottled water, coffee, hotdogs, popcorn, meat and cheese and bagels, cotton candy, massive sorts of sweetie substances for the kids, in particular for those who like to “fish” over a barrier with clothespins and tons of other food and drinks.
There are also lots of games for the kids. Younger kids can ride the carousel or bouncing bees; rides are free. There is also a jumping booth and a massive slide. Older kids can play soccer or volleyball on the spacious grounds. Lots of musical bands are playing everything, everywhere—within the fiesta area, from classic rock to square-dancing music.
At about 9: 00 a.m., there was a flag ceremony hosted by the U.S. Marines from the U.S. Embassy. After singing the United States National Anthem, we said the ‘Pledge of Allegiance,’ to the now risen flag. I actually cried. It had been a long time that I had said—and engaged in any kind of patriot activity with true Americans that believe in liberty, and the values of the true America that our founding fathers spilled their blood to give us.
The North American Democrats abroad in Costa Rica and the North American Republicans abroad in Costa Rica had booths to register voters. I stuck around to hear the chatter. As usual, both Democrats and Republicans in Costa Rica have such similar politics, it’s ridiculous. Of course Democrats and Republicans in the United States continue such similar politics, making it just as ridiculous… but the politics of Re-demo-public-rats in Costa Rica is the opposite of Re-demo-public-rats in the United States.
Most Americans abroad—in Costa Rica that is—are neither Republicans nor Democrats. They are libertarians, constitutionalists, anarchists or socialists. Don’t get too confused by the labels; many of those which seem to be opposites in the United States actually have the same values and beliefs here in Costa Rica. The anarchists and the socialists are both lovers of liberty here and value what the original American was founded to protect.
The U.S. Ambassador showed up at about 10:30 a.m., with his family and bodyguard. He was verbally accosted by several people, one of whom spit at him. The consensus seemed to be that this was a party for true patriots and he represented the powers that are destroying America from both parties (from the near past, to the now present). Others thought he was treated unfairly and that it wasn’t his fault what was happening at home, back in America. Of course you can’t become an ambassador without being willing to represent the country that sends you.
He seemed like a pretty nice guy to me with a wonderful family. Of course I believe he chose to be what he represents, and what he represents are the policies of America, and therefore, is not responsible in the fullest, nor can place blame on how people respond to his arrangement to represent America in the best of light—to the fullest, and the policies of the United States in particular—; again I repeat, nor can he blame those who throw tomatoes and other such vegetables at his art (or skill?)—in persuasion efforts (figuratively speaking); I was glad he wasn’t there during the flag rising, had he been it may have destroyed the atmosphere of patriotism that abounded.
Tonight there will be fireworks at Intel. I don’t know if we’ll go or not. The kids generally can’t handle two major events in one day. I suspect there will also be fireworks throughout the central valley wherever gringos live (of course fireworks aren’t illegal here). Ticos may also get into the fun. They have been known to make excuses to have a party, in this still relatively free country.
I strongly recommend a visit to the ‘Fiesta de Gringos,’ if you are ever near, or in Costa Rica during the 4th of July; if you aren’t American but close… ((Like Canadian or of The United Kingdom) (England)), you can usually get an American to invite you as a guest.

The author lives and plays in Costa Rica when he isn't helping others learn how to live and play in Costa Rica. You can contact him personally—if you wish, at the following email address:

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Judas Iscariot’s Secret

2009-08-26T14:43:00.000-07:00

(The Gospel of Judas Iscariot)

It was a stiff shock for me, one of the bitterest I ever had to look at. And it all came about through my awkwardness. Even yet sometimes, when I think of it, I want to howl if not swear or simply kick myself. Perhaps, even now, for a time looking at it, there possible could be a kind of contentment in making myself look low-priced by telling of it. But I will tell it nonetheless.
It began one afternoon in North Dakota in the early 1980s, I was dating a student at the University of North Dakota, and we sat in a night club drinking tap beer, my mind trotting and pacing over a statement she made.
To tell you the truth, I felt a little foolish that I should be sitting in a night club at all. I don’t like drinking or smoking. But during this summer she was graduating and wanted me to be present so I made several trips, and persuaded her to graduate with honors, and she did.
Anyhow, the statement she made, I thought it something disgraceful, but I tried to look at it, or pretended to look at it as less than what it was, after all I had to work, and didn’t want it on my mind other than as a passing thought.
Her question, or statement, depending on how you phrase it, perhaps even it could be put into a statement-question category was, “Perhaps Judas Iscariot isn’t as guilty of the scorn everyone gives him…!” She said something on that order.
If she taught me anything it was how to rub down a thought, idea, and put it on hold. To me at the time, I figured she was simply putting a bandage on some old hurt that was left loose, or untied in the bible. But as years went on, I wrote a few articles on Judas, and this will be my third. I guess he’s been a big driver of thoughts in my head, kind of like—under my skin, kind of like ‘What was his secret?”

Well I knew that Judas Iscariot knew, Jesus’ mission, his divinity, perhaps clearer than anyone at that time on earth, even amongst his kind, the apostles. He also knew ahead of time the sacrifice Jesus was going to make and why (and thereafter his working being done for the time being, on earth and he’d be headed back up yonder, and Judas left to his mission). Also Judas knew, the power Jesus had behind that mortal shell he was in; —and to repeat myself he knew His divinity, His immortality.
But that isn’t what I want to tell my story about. There’s a lot of things you’ve got to look at, some psychological, some spiritual, and whose to say, one might even come to the conclusion: he didn’t know any better—God forbid, but man may have done some dumber thinks, a few of the apostles remember denied Christ, one by the name of Thomas had to see and touch before believing. But of course, they are not really the premise here, so I shall let it lie where dead dogs lie.
So here was a question I had to answer, it was right in front of me, right in the grand stand, you might say, “Why then did Judas chose potential self-destruction?” You know how it is, nobody in their right mind chooses this for any reason—I knew that much when I was looking at both sides of the coin, the psychological and spiritual. You see, Judas knew the interconnecting of the Divine Trinity, he wasn’t stuck on himself, to the point of denying this, if anything knowing this put him in a race against time—and this will come out later, but never mind that now.
It is also safe to say, Judas knew Jesus’ self-limitations; that is, inside his shell of humanity (I hate to say, but it is obvious once looked at, biblically and humanistically). This is a sweaty area for Christendom, or Christology—that being pretty close to the end, for here was a man, and God, and who could by choice, make a choice, and be omnipotent, but didn’t. Perhaps again, I may throw a tidbit into this bowl of crickets, one Judas created: perchance, him knowing this, and he didn’t use it, irked him. I’m only telling you this to get everything straight, and out in the open. If you are saying, “Gee whiz,” how can you say such a thing—or such tings? We are talking about a human being, Judas, a psychological man, so I figured this out, he was no dope, nor am I blaming him, but who doesn’t want to be on the side of great power? And if that power is not being used according to the Gospel of Judas, just like the power of Julius Cesar, people will lean on that person. Maybe Judas was not so different.
In any case, the question arises, “Why did Judas do what he did?” Well what exactly did he do? One person could say, “What a chump,” he was all of that. Or another could say, “What a traitor, he was!” He was all of that also, matter-of-fact, he was both of course; but this is surface talk—this is the situation, the problem for me was under the surface, it always is: perhaps this dude was on a power high.

When a man goes to war for his homeland, he is in essence doing so for the greater glory of his country, and in the process may have to give up his life for that country, and the people in it. Is this not so? And did not Jesus say, the greatest gift man can give to another is his life, something on that order? Oh yes, He said it loud and clear. This may shed some light on Judas’ humanity, his psychological make up, his act of treason, his reasoning.
Let’s remember, this fellow was no mutt, many a man, or men in his day, would have given their golden teeth to be in his position, I mean, and I’d bet he could had made a million on the side by just introducing Jesus to the local elite. But you know how a fellow is, if there are diamonds hidden in the well, why waist your time bringing over to the king the local brothers of the lodge.
I don’t want to make a fool of myself, for a slip-up—anyhow, but the question has come to surface, “Did Judas love Jesus?” To say otherwise, or even maybe, is an offence, of course he did. But how do you force a person’s hand who is not listening? Remember he is a man of his day. If he didn’t love Jesus, after receiving his thirty pieces of silver, he would not have thrown them away, and then he would not have sunk into a dreadful depression, nor would he have committed suicide. He was not guilty of blasphemy, rather a different offence, perhaps he loved power more than anything, or perhaps he loved the power Jesus could have, and he’d be part of it.
History has sat on a nice sofa chair talking about Judas as if they knew him each and everyone, for years and years, personally, and left out the psychological man, for the spiritual: and in so doing, bluffed it through, never finding out the real man behind the mask, they’ve been like lame cows.

The mind, Judas labored with his ambition—psychologically and with his spirit— he was of both fibers (perhaps he forgot happiness was or is a byproduct, not a divine attribute), in saying this, the next question that comes up is: “Was Judas trying to force the hand of God?” In essence, was he trying to take change of the world through his son? Or trying to get a piece of it ahead of time? And if so, who would be Jesus’ right hand man? And did Judas think: ‘Look here, I got a chance to be by the Father and Holy Spirit, the whole Godhead!” Perhaps so, and perhaps to degrees, whose to say.
Vanity and self-interest, which are part of the fiber of man, part of the original sin man inherited, is stronger than the whims of the devil himself.

†

Other Questions

Other questions that have come up have been: “Was Judas’ act predestined, or preordained? Well, whatever the case may be, it didn’t need to be. Perhaps Judas was plan B. that became plan A. It all depended on—I believe availability and usability. Although the time this all took place I do trust was preordained, it was a perfect time, a time of much construction, especially roads, by Rome, whom ruled the known and civilized world.

Most of us think all the bible facts have come to light, when in-between these sacred books within the two canons, much is hidden to be revealed later, as if many parts are written in invisible ink. For each decade, generation, century has its own make up—its own needs, its own language you might say, and that is why the bible can speak from two-thousand years ago, to the contemporary man and woman of today.

The last question, “Did Judas commit the unpardonable sin?” If he did, he’s in hell, if he didn’t, well fine, then most likely he’s been pardoned. It’s a questioned to be reckoned with. He did believe who Jesus Christ was, the gospel in essence, which is: who Christ was, and what did he do, and why did he do it. In this he just got his values crossed I do believe. But for the second part, did he blasphemy the Holy Spirit? If he did, he’s down yonder. But how would he have done that? I can think of one way, by the act of treason, and if indeed he wanted to be on one side of Jesus, this was impossible, because Jesus even told John’s mother, it was impossible, because He was on one side of the father, and the Holy Spirit on the other, so was Judas trying to kick the Holy Spirit off the throne, or out of the Godhead, if indeed he was, that come under the unpardonable category.

No: 456 (8-25-2009)

As a Sleeping Man Kills a Fly (a story about a season of death)

2009-08-18T11:26:00.001-07:00

When I die, I do hope it is not as quick as a sleeping man swats kills a fly. That is how my aunt Rose died, and my cousin, Larry died, and how my uncle Chris died in the hospital, unattended, all alone in the dark; it all happened suddenly and abrupt, without warning—to all mentioned, all in the matter of a few years, on nice seasonal days. There she was my Auntie Rose, walking in the living room of her granddaughter’s apartment where she lived, and choked to death, no one hearing her, almost sleepwalking, and she died, just like that, and that was all that was left of her, one short, and everlasting day. Then she turned cold in death, and pale and stiff, as we all do. We had vaguely spoken to one another after my mother died, three years prior. And like my grandfather, twenty-years before, she laid on the floor, her blue veins protruding. There she was like that—just like that.
After that, after my mother’s death, winters and summers came and left seemingly unnoticed for me, perhaps because I was trying hard to adjust to my new conditions. Then came another death, up to this writing, to this very moment, there has been several deaths in the family, one after the other, so compactly side by side, one might think this was a most prosperous season for our family to die in, the last being Ann my aunt and godmother. She was the last to lend a quick alert to our family tree, and add another soul into the once half empty canister.
My brother Mike notifies me almost every time such an event, a death, and its undertaking takes place, within the family, and among our old, and near childhood, neighborhood friends. He and I of course, are still hanging in there. Yet it makes me wonder, and conceivably him some, who will be the fellow to notify me of the next death, if indeed he isn’t around to do it, if indeed I go first—and he’s not around to do it thereafter—well, you see what I mean.
The feeling of having the other person at hand of something or for something, of managing such affairs—and someone to tell them to, is comfortable, and nice, especially on a cold and rainy outside (night or day, any season will do). Both he and I, feel this, it makes us warm and cozy. I don't know, but most likely, the death of so, so many draws us closer. Both he and I have felt this, possibly Mike more consciously than I because he is the one doing the calling, and telling, going to the wakes, and funerals, receiving the death phone calls from the beloved and grieving—I’m six-thousand miles away (thank goodness).

Oh-key, go ahead, say what you want, what you will, I don’t like funerals—period. They are to me like spots of dried paste. And spots of blistering paint, one inside the old house, the other on the exterior; death and funerals are like old worn-out overcoats, never again to see the light of day. The bodies are taut and hard, ugly and dreadful, pale and in areas soft, and no light in their eyes.
Well, to the devil with it all, I’m sure there will be a new disaster to the family sooner than later, ahead, and the prospects are good it could be me! When I die, I do hope though, like my mother, I have time to say goodbye, if not, let me say it now: Goodbye!

8-15-2009/Written at the Mia Mamma Café, Huancayo, Peru, No: 452

Does America have a Christian President? (Obama)

2009-06-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

Let me add, a Christian has Christian values, now he, our President Obama, of the United States is on the march to make Gay marriages legal, is that a Christian Value? Like Stem Cell usage, and abortion, all anti Christian values. So why does he proclaim to be a Christian? Maybe the best answer is: Why not? It sounds good. You simply can't be just because you say you are, and bend you knees at the local Church, you got to live your values, and what you value is you. And so it is clear to see where this president is, and it is not on any Christian path, he may think so, and you may think so, but no true Christian thinks so. It is better simply to say, "I am not Christian, nor have those values, and don't want them," and go about your way; he'd be a better President, and man, in my eyes for that. So what do we have here? A President who claims to be a Christian but doesn't care to live its values; anyhow that is how I see it. What you do is what you believe in, if you do anything else, you are a false prophet.

Obama: Balloon Full of Air

2009-05-26T21:49:00.000-07:00

Obama: Balloon Full of Air

Now the president is on the crusade, demanding Aung San Suu Kyi, be released in Burma, or else! What can he do with his demand, nothing, just like North Korea, when is he going to learn, they don’t care about sanctions, when it comes to trying to control their movements. So what’s he do, after they have fired missiles, nothing? And Iran, what’s he doing? They now got nuclear capability—nothing? Is the world safer today than when he took office? No. How about Cuba and our little prison over there, that has all the public opinion against us, and all those countries saying shut the doors, but when it comes to taking the killers, they shut their mouths. He wants to put them on the streets of America. And he gave everyone $250-dollars, that was nice, but Bush gave $600, he seems to run short at ever corner. And where are the troops, should they not be home as he promised? Nope. They are taking from Peter and giving to Paul. Nothing has changed. He’s given so much free money away to the rich corporations, that the executives can live like kings around the world. And the dollar isn’t much better than when Bush was in office, and employment is not better, getting worse, as it is in China, Europe, and Japan and we can add Russia. Hang in there he says, he’s on his way. He’s for abortion and all these other things Christians are against, and he wants us to think he is a Christian, when he’s against Christian concepts. I want to like this guy, but I find he is nothing but a balloon full of air that would have done anything to get into office.
And he wants the Israel to live in peace with the Arabs, and the Arabs want to destroy Israel, as indicated in their code, or credo; but yet, he wants to shove it down their throats, the only person that wants peace there is the Western Empires, for the oil, nobody else does.
Well, he learned one thing, it is not so easy to run a country, as he told everyone he was going to do, and in the process cut president Bush down, and now ends up doing the same thing, and eliminates the freedom to of checks and balances in the government. (5-26-2009)

About Writing War Stories (an upfront article)

2009-05-10T20:21:00.001-07:00

About Writing War Stories

I have written many war stories, to include the Korean War, having a close friend in that war. Also World War One, the one my grandfather was in, and World War Two, the one my Uncle Frank died in, and Uncle Wally was a POW in. I even wrote a few things about the civil war, but mostly the Vietnam War, the one I participated in, in 1971. My son Cody was involved with the Bosnia war in the early 1990s; I have yet to write about that. War participation, seems to run in the family, as much as it runs in the blood of the United States, always sticking their nose in to someone else’s business. It would do well if we stop fighting for everyone else, and just for our own country; in that case, our youth would have time to blossom.
Anyhow, I thought about this article for a very long while, if indeed I should write it, and never got around to it, wasn’t sure how to write it, and then I figured, do it the way you usually do, be up front, it is just your opinion, and we all have them, right?
Here is what I got to say about writing war stories: a writer who has the experience of war under his belt has one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write about. Sincerely those writers who have not seen it are jealous, and have tried to make it seem unimportant to others, if not abnormal or a negative as a subject, while in reality it is part of our global history, a fabric of the human race (like it or not, right or wrong), and perhaps irreplaceable and something they have missed.
You don’t forget war, if you’re in it. You remember near everything, even the songs being played, and replayed, and the smells, and the heaviness of the rain, and the championship boxing matches going on back home, the heat and the big bull mosquitoes, and the incoming rockets, their sounds and so forth and so on.
Writes are often times made by being sent to wars: such as Hemingway, Manning, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, and so on.
There are no real great writers today, worth quoting, and surely no war writers worth their salt, I’ve read.

5-9-2009

Obama: The United Nations? ((the tough guy)(Ltr: 16, 4-18-2009))

2009-04-18T22:15:00.000-07:00

Obama: The United Nations?
((The tough guy) (Ltr: 16, 4-18-2009))

Two things he’s done right in less than a week, this is unbelievable, but who knows maybe he’s got more get up and go, more than I thought anyhow, more than I gave him credit for. He allowed American Armed forces to use deadly force in killing the abductors of an American Ship recently, to free the Captain, off the coast of Somalia, and goodbye to trash, three bagged and one in the coop.
Now he’s done it again, he is not attending the UN meeting in Switzerland, and for a good reason, and every president before him should have done this long ago: boycott the meeting, everyone that takes any interest in United Nations’ affairs, knows how deep the bigotry and discrimination is against Israel at the UN. To attend would be to sanction their prejudice, if anyone should know this, “The Congressional Black Caucus,” should, but they are on the same path as the UN I guess. I have to ask the question, why hasn’t a white president done this—I shouldn’t say that, forbidden words, but how true they are? Oh well, out of sight, out of mind. Europe will not like this, they hate the Jews also, always have, but now they know where Obama stands, as long as he doesn’t push the point, and try to force Israel to buy bunk beds for Palestine.
Hugo Chavez has fallen in love with our president, I should warn him, having more experience in this psychological field than he, Chavez has a duel personality, Mr. President, don’t turn your back on him, unless you have a mirror; he perhaps is laughing, making funny faces, he’s something else.
If only he could get our troops out of Iraq, as he said he would, and not send them over yonder, into another Middle East backyard. We’ll need our hands free for North Korea soon. It should be interesting how he handles North Korea. I do think that the UN did right in its message to North Korea, now we need to tell North Korea: loud and clear, we can do to them what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps send over the 50,000 troops we are leaving in Iraq, to make a point, or perhaps point a few nukes at them, and let them take pictures, and see if they still hold the same intentions, which are to make South Korea into an infernal.

E- Book Mall Best Sellers List (ebookmall)

2009-04-16T00:05:00.000-07:00

E- Book Mall Best Sellers List (ebookmall)

Of their top Horror best Sellers, 100-list, Mr. Siluk’s “Tiamat, Mother of Demon,” was number 52 on, 4-16-2009. Steven King’s: “The Girl Who Loved Tom,” 65; “From a Buick 8” 66. “Frankenstein,” 67.

Obama: A Miricle ((A path to Friendship: Cuba's Door)(Ltr: 15, 4-14-2009))

2009-04-14T08:19:00.001-07:00

Obama: A Miricle
((A path to friendship: Cuba’s Door) (Ltr: 15, 4-14-2009))

I started writing my Obama letters a few days after he made president, and tried to keep up with the mess he’s been creating, but I am happy to say, I am half proud of my president today. He has done three things correct since he’s been in office, soon to be 90-days. One, he allowed an old black lady to get on the welfare line; two, he made an international speech to the college kids in Heidelberg, Germany, on leaving something behind with their skills and talents, instead of robbing your neighbors blind, and in the last day or two it occurred to him this stupid blockade with Cuba is silly. We’ve had it for fifty-years, and we don’t even know why we have it. I mean, we allow every other dictatorship in the world to carry on as usual, normal business with the USA, and we kick our neighbor in the ribs for doing the same thing.
Let’s face it, China is no democracy, and look what they’ve done to Tibet; and they’ve got the guts to scorn Japan for their atrocities in WWII, and we opened the international trading door for them, brought them into the World Trade Organization as if they were our blood brothers, only to build more rockets and aim them at us. And I suppose I could crisscross the globe and pick out a dozen more countries, like Vietnam, and Burma, and so forth, but here we are chopping away at little Cuba. Take the chains off and let’s go have a party over yonder, under the Cuba sun: to have and have not, I heard that some place. And if the people want a dictatorship, let them have it. It’s called the people’s choice. They could change it if they had a heart to, we did. We get into this mode; we got to change everybody to fit into our box. Cultures, histories, economics, they all play a role in the way of life for a country. As long as they are not building missiles and aiming them at us, let them alone, and let’s open a door of friendship, like we did with our real enemies in Vietnam. Did you know they got a statue of liberty in Havana? They like us, and there are not a lot of folks out there that do; so Mr. President, with all respect, you’ve started to do something right for once. God bless you, and I hope I can soon write a letter and stipulate a forth thing you’ve done correct.

Obama: World Disorder ((the blind follow the blind)(Ltr: 14, 4-6-2009)

2009-04-06T11:07:00.000-07:00

Obama: World Disorder
((the blind follow the blind)(Ltr: 14, 4-6-2009))

Let’s see what we find in the Obama box today. Turkey, he says is a much needed friend, one we can trust, and Christian and Muslim, works together. Perhaps there is some truth to this, but it stops at a very narrow corner I do believe. Our values are different, the Western World hasn’t figured this out since the 11th Century, and how long does it take. Whatever friendship we build, and I have Muslim friends, the center is hollow. I know this and they know this, but for coexistence we also know, not to carry guns on our person when we say hello. Foolishness comes at a price.
On another note, related to the above slightly, is the only thing President Chavez of Venezuela had to say that was correct, that I ever heard come out of his mouth was Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he is so right.
On North Korea: We stood by and watched North Korea send a rocket into the sky, soon it will be a nuke, we all know this, and we all scream to the high moon as if North Korea could care, they careless. It has taken us 50-years to figure this out, that we should have taken charge when we had a chance, back in 1954. Now they have big toys, I don’t know what we are waiting for, perhaps for them to get the Nuke on the tip of that rocket, and nuke Japan or South Korea, so it would seem, and that will be their blackmailing gimmick soon. If I was one of those countries, I’d be building me some fast flying missiles, and aiming them directly at the one doing all the threatening. Perhaps the better choice here is for Japan to wakeup and smell he rotting roses, from their passive past, and be the great warriors they are known for. South Korea, simply doesn’t believe their neighbors will butcher them, Kuwait, felt the same way with Iraq.
Heidelberg, Germany. President Obama, gave a lecture there the other day, and advised the young folks to leave something behind, for posterity sake. That is the best I can do Mr. President. It was a great speech.

Obama: the World’s Crackerjack Box (Ltr. 13)

2009-03-31T10:36:00.000-07:00

Obama: the World’s Crackerjack Box (Ltr. 13)

They, the world, each and every country and its entire leadership, sum total, are looking for the prize in the box, the Crackerjack Box. The world respects Obama, shows him regard, but so does half the world give respect to such terrifying regimes, as North Korea, Cuba, Russia, China who have enslaved neighbors, like Tibet, for one example, and given the chance, North Korea would do the same to South Korea, as they’ve done to their people, as Russia has done to Georgia. And respect has been given to several African countries, and its leaders who have butchered thousands of their own people, so yes, they have given him respect, but no more than, and no longer than, their hope maintains in getting something for nothing, they want that prize from the Crackerjack Box. I hope our president counts the cost, everything cost something, and all the goodwill he is giving away is nice, but nice is like saying sorry, after some tragedy, and sorry doesn’t pay the bills, nor does nice, but it can’t hurt, as long as they can see the big bat behind him. Meaning, like China and Russia, they talk softly and carry a big bat, they just hide it. Obama is a new fish in an old sea, which makes him mysterious to the onlookers. He’s not a bully yet; not like China or Russia or North Korea. And anything mysterious, that has a golden throne, is going to be examined closely. As soon as any country in the world, or kingdom in the sea, senses a violation of their goals their values, their hopes, he’ll be condemned as a fake, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, an imposter. It is easy in this new global world to go from a shinny flower to a weed, faster than it took to become the flower. Obama has not yet felt the force of the wind; he is still on a high, from winning an obvious win. We need friends, but we don’t need scavengers.

"You Snooze,You Lose" ((New Global Values and Morals) (3-31-2009))

2009-03-31T09:55:00.000-07:00

You Snooze, You Lose
((New Global Values and Morals)(3-31-2009))

Prime Minister Brown of Britain, said it best, and I shall paraphrase: we have no Global Morals, nor Values, speaking economically.
Let me be frank, and speak for the whole world in general, we do have values, values being those things in life we value the most, but they’ve changed, and as far as morals go, those things that are under the heading of ethics—I used to have to take an ethics class once a year to keep up my counselling license—teaching me to maintain my principles, a code of behaviour, honour (respect, regard) not like today, it is a code of horror. We don’t have the same old style, or type we had forty years ago. Mr. Brown should remember we took them out of the schools, with God, and Liberty, and saluting the flag, at least in America we did, and usually the world follows America, right to the abyss sometimes. Anyhow, we got want we planted, ‘You snooze, you lose,’ that is our new morals and values in a nutshell. If you don’t like it, it’s too bad, it is what we planted, and it is what is being harvested, and it is why were in such a worldwide crisis today. I feel sorry for the young generation; they have to live with the garbage we planted.
I had to teach full grown men, while in my counselling career, those coming out of prison, into a halfway house back into society, that without discipline, there are no limits to a person’s behaviour; nothing to govern them by if you do not have a moral code (meaning good behaviour). They thought I was talking Greek. We got what we deserve; now we are complaining. Doesn’t that beat all? What did Mr. Brown expect; flowers from planting in manure for forty-years. Trying to teach an old wolf morals and principles, and discipline, and values, is like trying to part the Red Sea, good luck.

Obama: no pain, no gain! (Ltr, 12, 3-23-2009)

2009-03-23T09:36:00.001-07:00

Obama: no pain, no gain!
(Letter: 12) 3-23-2009

We live in a world where people don’t want to feel any pain anymore; this is especially true with the new generation. Give me the fixit pill. They want the quick fix remedy. There is an old saying: no pain, no gain. It is the same thing for grieving, out of sight out of mind. Bury the person where I can’t see them. Obama’s world is the in the forefront of this movement. Let’s give the world a sugar high. They do that in the Army, when you are running, give you a candy bar so you can keep running, and salt pills incase you sweat it all out. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way. So now the Government is going to buy all the bad moorages, so the banks don’t have to take the loss, which is really called bankruptcy, since so many people filed bankruptcy on the banks, and then the government is going to sell them bank to the banks in lots I suppose, and let the banks work with the Real estate companies, and sell them back to the public, but he doesn’t talk about the new bankruptcy laws in effect that make it harder for a person to get a bankruptcy or get out of dept, and that is because the banks want it to be left alone so they can enslave the individual, after they make their recovery. You see, the little person had a way to wiggle out of the banks imprisonment, and now they’ve talked the President into re-enslaving the people.
I only took Economics 101, in college, but a made over million in Real estate and rental property in the 90’s, the honest way, and when a furnace went out in one of my places in the winter, I live in Minnesota, the bank was more than willing to borrow me $10,000 to fix it, but I had cash, so I didn’t have to. Plus, they never liked me paying off my loans early, there is a reason for that—two reasons, first, all interest is free money, second, keep everyone in enslavement. Now the banks are in a bind, and who is going to fatten their pockets? You got it, our savior, Obama.

The Obama Twist (Ltr, 11, 21 March, 2009)

2009-03-20T21:11:00.000-07:00

The Obama Twist
(Ltr, 11, 21 March, 2009)

When the dance, called the twist came out in the 1960s, everyone wanted to be part of the fad. It was the thing to do, like the hula-hoop, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon to learn how to twist, and shake their hips to keep that hula-hoop balanced properly. It was a change, because we all know the world keeps changing, and this was the new thing on the block, like Elvis was. In the political arena, it has always been upscale towards war, who can take what they’ve longed for away from the others. The only thing that has changed in this arena is how to acquire it. When you want a bomb that can reach Israel, and destroy it, like so many dictators in the past have tried to get, get it one way or the other, Syria is also after it. And one of them will use it. Justify it as everyone turns into marshmallows. This is Iran’s quest, Syria’s quest, the Middle East Quest, all the Arab countries would like to see Israel destroyed; Iran is the only one brave enough to say so. If Israel has learned anything, it is how to think like its enemy, the one thing we have never paid any attention to, is not trying to think like our enemies, we think they think like us, and they don’t.
A friend of mine, back about fifteen-years ago, a professor, with a PH.D., who taught at a well known University, her and I sat one afternoon in a bookstore and talked about the world at large. She was like Obama, a lover of peace by way of talk therapy and wishful thinking, not an once of experience in war how the mind works, or cultural matters, and if it was up to her, the United States would have grounded all its military might long ago: buried all its nuclear weapons, cut the Army perhaps to clerks only. She meant well, and I liked her, but I asked, “Don’t you think while your creating this glories world, somebody might want to take it away?”
Well, she lived in a bubble, as does Obama, and by the time she could figure out her response to me, there was a war in Kuwait, and I told her when the war started, “They did what you suggested the United States should do, now what?”
As we all know from those days, women were raped, people misplaced, oil wells went up in flames, and for the most part, Kuwait was under the heel of Iraq, and it’s Army.
Kuwait was the envy of the Middle East as far as lifestyle went and money. When it came to preserving their freedom, or protecting their wives, they were as helpless as a blue jay in the grip of a hawk.
Iran will do what they want, and say want they need to say, and no matter what, it is the bomb they are after. As I said before, once Russian ties the knot with Iran, it will be too late.
We are worried about swatting fly’s when there are dirty infected camels to kill.
North Korea is no different, only that they want the nuke to blackmail the world with, as they have in the past. People think there is a big difference between Bush and Obama, in this arena. As far as Iran goes and North Korea, Obama is just easier to push around, with Bush they had to bite their fingers a little, and Russia had to count the cost. Russia no longer is afraid to put their cards on the table since Bush is history. If the world thinks they are safer because of Obama, they will have rude awakening. Bush was wrong on many of his later decisions in the White House, but Obama is wrong on a lot of his beginning decision and he’s just been in the office a few months, let’s hope he can shift gears before it is too late.

Recommendations:

Let me give a quick piece of advise to the President, he won’t listen I know, although he did pay attention to that little girl who wanted her school painted so who knows. It’s not time to plant a victory garden, as they seem to be doing near the White House, I suggest, they neutralize Iran and North Korea, and Syria, then they will have something to be victorious over. I’ll even provide the seeds.

My recommendations for Israel is to get off their stool, and take some action, before it is too late; the US is not going to start WWIII over you folks most likely, although we have a commitment, I doubt you can trust Obama to sent in the fleet when you get hit, and I mean hit hard. I do realize you get billions of dollars from the US to stand down, but you got to over look this, and do what is right for your people.

Advice for South Korea and Japan: you got three choices: continue to be blackmailed, get the nukes ready, because Obama is not going to stop the North in doing so, or burn your candles low so the North won’t shoot straight, when they get the fat boy.

Knock-knock, Anyone Home at the Whitehouse? like Obama...? (Ltr, 10, 3-14-2009)

2009-03-14T15:33:00.000-07:00

Knock-knock, anyone home at the Whitehouse?
Obama…?

Letter No: 10

What’s new on the Obama Train? Let me see. Korea warned Obama to be still about their shooting a rocket into space that can hit the United States, and he told Hiller, “Leave it alone.” So that issue is settled. Russia is moving back to Cuba, to have their jet fighters ready on the four runways that they have, as well as Venezuela, being considered, we’ll soon be surrounded by our so called friendly enemies; for whatever purpose they feel necessary. Obama, is busy with other things, like visiting with a girl from North Carolina, who wants her school painted, a black girl of course. Any white girls out there need your school painted? The Governor of the state says in essence: we can’t use the stimulus money for pet projects, and I agree, let’s keep it on the up and up, what is good for one school, the other one should get likewise. It looks like we got kids running the show.
Iran isn’t scared anymore, no reason to be, Obama assured them no matter what they do, we are going to use talk therapy with them, not threats and bombs, they are really our friends, we just haven’t given them time, perhaps 40-years isn’t enough. Although they are on the threshold of a nuclear bomb, and he thinks it will be used for baking bread.
What else is new within his 100-day count down? He is doing away with the Bush Terrorism program to hold terrorist on suspension, we now have to see them blow up a few dozen buildings or, kill a few more dozen soldiers, get it on camera, bring it to the courts, and pinpoint the man with the machine gun in his hands, then we can put him in jail for a few years of rest and recuperation, let him go, and give him citizenship.
He is still giving away the US treasury, slowly but surely, every week he has a new pet project to give a few billion here or there, I think he has his own personal list. But we have to be patient he says. He’s given some money for construction projects; I bet all his friends, perhaps a few relatives who are contractors are ahead on his line. I don’t want to get into the dollar projects, it’s too deep. But I’m still waiting for him to do something he said he was going to do.
What everybody saw in him I don’t know, but before he was elected president, I predicted this, and it is all on the internet, and he is holding true to his values, not mine.
Now I know some folks will not want to publish this, those in love with this hero who has done nothing yet, it usually goes that way. If I was writing glorious things about Obama and pretending he was actually doing something to help someone other than himself, it would get five stars, and be put on most internet pages in 24-yours, it tells you something: people still want more pain, they are brain washed with dead-hope. And you usually get what you deserve.

Obama, the Paper Tiger in DC (Ltr, 9, current events 3-9-2009)

2009-03-08T23:16:00.001-07:00

Letter No: 9
(Current Events)

Obama, the Paper Tiger in DC

We have some real problems, we are warning everybody everywhere, and everyone is saying the paper tiger has spoken now let’s do what we said we’re going to do. We should do one of two things: shut up, or put up of fists.
Korea has been telling us for five-years, it is going to build a rocket that will reach the United States, and now they have, and now they are going to launch it, and we are warning them not to. What is a warning? It is only worth what you are willing to do. Bush proved his warnings were deadly. Obama, his warnings are like a paper tiger, and he have Hillary to speak on his behalf. And that is why Korea said, “We’ll go to war?” Not sure who with, I suppose they mean the United States; if so, I think we better call Bush back.
They have been blackmailing Japan and South Korea for twenty-years, and the US for almost as long. The point is, now they will have the stuff to really do what they been saying for twenty years they’d like to do, blackmail and point their guns.
The Question is “Do we go to war?” Or let them do what they did on December 7, 1941. Bomb Peal Harbor; we keep thinking they will not, but have we forgotten 9/11; Iraq is over, let’s move on, we got other business and interests, and we’re dogged down there, so we’re afraid to do anything elsewhere. We should readjust our thinking to those that can hurt us.
We want to build a shield in Europe, let the Europeans do it, not the tax paying folks in America, we’ve been paying their bills for sixty-years, when is enough, enough.
Back to Korea, let them start the war, blow their rocket out of the air, and if they do start a war, well this time let’s finish it, and be done with it, and forget an armistice. But Obama, not knowing the military world, is at a party singing Happy Birthday to Kennedy, who was the character in the book “Dark Waters.” And dark they are.
We are also warning Iran. What is all this warning business; let Israeli do what they do best, like Elvis would say, “Taking care of business.”
We’ve been paying Israel to stand down, like a clown, while they build a nuclear plant, for power they say, when they got more oil than Exxon. Now let’s stop kidding ourselves, they don’t need it to warm their homes—it’s hot enough over there, and they don’t need it for gas, only half the population can drive, women are not allowed, and they don’t need it for cooking, they need it for Israel. They said they want to obliterate Israel, and Obama thinks, talk therapy will work, that’s only in the movies.
On the third subject here, I wish he’d stop spending all the tax money he hasn’t collected yet. He’s giving $160 billion to the international banking system, for a smile, to keep the rich from falling on their knees. And another one trillion to a stimulus program, his own party don’t want a party to, but like ducks they are in line. And this is just the beginning. The Ice berg is deep, and if it comes up it will be like flooding all of Greenland.
The only thing I can say about Obama in his less than two months in office is, he gave a black lady a home, or some financial support, and that came out of the tax payer’s pocket, not his. I think he forgot, money is earned, not grown.

Obama: Real Money to Monopoly! (Ltr: 8, 3-3-2009)

2009-03-03T21:34:00.001-08:00

Obama: Real Money to Monopoly!
(Letter: 8)

I can’t really count that high, nor as fast as Obama is pending our tax paying money, but let me take just a simple look at a few items. I know it is easy to point fingers, but Obama, did a lot of that when he was running for President, made a lot of promises, acted like the Messiah, and now is going to cure cancer, with twenty-billion of American dollars: seeing is believing. And he’s going to cure the ills of America with another 1-trillion dollars with the stimulus, and he has gave—almost giving away, 160-billion to the international lending banking system, with little to no interest. America is a free style economy, you have a right fail, and a right to go broke, who on earth can expect a 160-billion dollars bail out, I can’t get $60-free, much less 160-billion, to feed the rich, because they made bad decisions. I think he’s in league with the Bush Administration. I voted for Mr. Bush the first time around, the second time, I wish I would not have, but what took Bush eight years to do, is taking Obama eight weeks, to sink the economy deeper into the abyss.
In addition, keeping 50,000-troops in Iraq, and another 17,000 in Afghanistan, is no simple task, it takes dollars. Where is he going to get this? The American Economy, contains about 13-plus, trillion dollars per year, we are spending 20-billion at the UN, another 450-billion on the Military, not counting the 1-trillion we’ve already spent on Iraq, who could care less about Democracy. They’ve said it loud and clear—“Get Out,” so lets go, take care of our own. They get air-conditioned air tents, while our old folks get heatstroke; and I’m not kidding.
They take the dollars and throw shoes at our leaders. I don’t care for a lot of leaders out there, but I’d not get physical with any of them, and at first the man said: “I got emotional,” and then he said to his fellow men, “I practiced throwing the shoe,” now that he might get 15-years in prison.
And he is a hero in Iraq, doesn’t that tell you something? It should.
We have to put up with Iran killings along the boarder, pay Israel not to shoot down their nuclear plant, pay North Korea not to hurt South Korea, its all dollars and more dollars, and not one thank you.
Nobody wants to help us in Afghanistan, and it makes no sense to stay there and pay for 52,000-troops there. Between the two wars it is costing a billion dollars a week. I know the Generals and industry want us to stay, it’s a money maker for them, but we’re going to have to start paying with Monopoly money pretty soon.
It seems to me we went from a hot boiling pot of water, into a hotter frying pan. I get the impression, President Obama feels a strike of his pen, is magic: we do not live in the world of the Wizard of Oz.

Letter Seven: Obama's Sitting Ducks (2-26-2009)

2009-02-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

Letter Seven: Obama’s
Sitting Ducks (2-26-2009)

I see Obama is proudly standing his ground on sending the Iraqi troops home. Let me rephrase that. I see President Obama, is following basically the same plan President Bush set forward before Obama was president, and reneging on his word, that he was to bring home the boys. What does that mean? Well, you have to read between the lines, it means, he is going to leave in place, 50,000-troops, more than we have in Korea or Afghanistan, more than we have in Japan, what for?
Your guess is as good as mine. Being a soldier for 11-years I realize you just can’t up and leave, and we are not, but if you leave 50,000 soldiers in a war zone, and they are basically, as they said, support, meaning, not much infantry, they are sitting ducks for the enemy. Strategically, we are in a good area in the world, surrounded by enemies, and if we leave a hole, it will be filled, but that will happen with 50,000 troops or 15,000 troops, not with 142,000 troops though. So it is best we leave them all there, or take them all out except a small contingent, say 5000 to 10,000, and to the extreme, 35,000, but not 50,000, that would be my guess. He wouldn’t understand this though, not being a soldier that is why, he is on a merry-go-round, and he doesn’t know how to get off it—yet he is listening to the people as he whirls and whirls and whirls around in his same circle!
How about a plan C? I bet he hasn’t got one, so I’ll give him one; do what you said you were going to do, that is what the people expect, not a modification after you get into office, it looks like you tricked us all. And maybe he did, that was the original plan, A, now he went to plan B, the Bush plan, and for Plan C, is going back to plan A.
We have to admit, that when you are standing outside of the White House looking in it is easy to point fingers, but one inside looking out, you come to understand, pointing fingers is easy, in comparison to doing what you said should be simple, lead the people to think so.

Hello Out there! Everything’s Just Dandy!

2009-02-22T22:44:00.000-08:00

I see kids are having kids nowadays, eleven to thirteen, it all goes, nothing forbidden: no discipline, thus, no limits: I hear complaints out there on this matter, but I say: what do you expect, you can’t teach Godly things in the schools anymore, the ten commandments, where do you think they will learn such things? We got what we planted, and now we are saying, “I can’t believe it.” Don’t be so silly, most parents out there are lazy parents. I told a person the other day, “Your daughter is eleven years old, and can’t spell ‘Get,’ correctly. The father got mad at me, and told me to mind my own business. That he loved his daughter so very much. I said, if you love her, you wouldn’t be looking for a wife on the internet every night, and riding your $26,000 motorcycle down to the gym every night, you’d be teaching her how to spell ‘get’.” Well as you might expect, that didn’t go over very well, I’m the bad guy on the block now.
I see eleven year old kids killing parents, and men throwing acid in women’s faces. The Priests are having sex with everyone under the sun, kids in particular. Everyone’s yelling for Equal Rights, even at the Oscar’s. Especially for homosexuals, they want to dance down every street of America and with jockstraps on, like they did in New Orleans when I was there. They want to teach our kids what is right and wrong in schools as our teachers. They think God is on their side, as if he’s a commodity, you pay your way, and you get his blessing. I perhaps got their god mixed up with mine, there presumptuous god, might be, that little guy with the arrow (cupid).
Anyhow, we got a war to fight in Iraq, and Iran says they are a peaceful country (as does North Korea), but are trying to buy influence: I will not kill the Americans in Iraq, if you turn your back to the Nuclear question, we got a right to have this bomb, and we are not going to use it on anybody, not even our hated enemy, Israel, we just want it so we got something to do, something to look at. And of course Omaha believes all this. Why not, everything’s ok out there.
Even the kids got ‘rights’ more rights than parents, they got the right to slap a parent in the face, and if he hits him back nowadays, they’ll run to the police, and of course, who goes to jail, we all know who. And the girls know they can get an abortion now, Obama, is making sure of that, without consent, and they say Obama is more popular than Jesus Christ, I heard that remark forty-years ago. I mean if the parent says no, big deal, you still have to allow it, and support the brat. When we should have taught the girl in the school the ten-commandments, those things we threw out because someone went to the Supreme Court, and a few judges made a decision for a 300-million people, that is suppose to be right, and now the law. And these judges were of course, atheists.
And people say, “How is it out there?” It’s just dandy, it is the way we made it, and when we get mud in our face, we deserve it. So everyone out there stop crying. Mr. Milk got his way, and Penn got his Oscar for best actor, and it didn’t look to me as if he was acting, rather enjoying his scenes of kissing men throughout the movie, and someone stood up and bragged how they were going to drag America to the pits of Sodom and Gomorra, which is not far from where we are now.
We got some little wars going on also, and some terrorist wars going on, and no one wants to support them, let the Americans do it. I would say to Europe, the ones that want to throw their cards in, you got NATO, and if Obama is looking for soldiers in Afghanistan, as he says he is, take them out of NATO, since it is an American product. And let them fend for themselves, it’s about time Europe stops sucking American tax payers dry. If the euro was based on defending ones homeland, Europe would be at a fatal loss, and the dollar would be at a remarkable high.
The question begs to be answered, “Why is everyone complaining out there?” We all got what we deserve, what we fought for, rights without responsibilities, (up the nose) what you are witnessing now is the erosion process which started fifty-years ago. Parents are no more than a financial burden, ticket, and once used up, not much good to anyone. Hollywood is controlling the Right’s groups, we got a lot of them: for dogs, cats, prisoners of war, who kill American’s and they want them on our streets now. No other country will take these birds of pry, but they will complain. And Obama, again, will offer them a handshake, when he should be cutting them off so they cannot pull the triggers of those AK47s, to kill more Americans.
Industry, companies run the governments now, no more standing up guys for what is right or wrong, and it comes under, self interest, and Globalization, the word was unheard of in the 70s, now it is a household word, and one that goes along with Armageddon. Get drunk and pay the bills that are the best I can say, because we are in for windstorm. Or else we better change in hurry, and not the way Hollywood would like us to.

Obama: Entertainer of the Month ((letter: 6)(2-20-2009))

2009-02-20T15:23:00.000-08:00

Obama: Entertainer of the Month
The Entertainer ((Letter: 6) (2-20-2009))

If Obama does anything well, it is that he entertains me. He should be in line to take over the David Lettermen show when he retires; he’d do well on it. He has dropped 9-points, and he’s only been President, one month. He is going to give financing for old mortgages to old mortgage holders, you know those that didn’t pay their mortgage on time, went to Disneyland or Los Vegas; it’s called in old fashion terms, rewarding the thief, while the hard worker pays on time. I know what he’s going to say: everything’s not perfect. I swear this guy is walking like a duck in circles. But he’s a proud one, I sure can say that. I just hope no real big crisis happens, God help us all then. They say, two out of three American’s have approved of his stimulus program, so that leaves 100-million unsatisfied customers. That may grow pretty soon; and if I was at the race track, I’d not place too much money on a horse with those odds, two out of three is a winning hand, but it tells you something: you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time, and that is the corner I’m standing at, and soon he’ll show up there I’m sure. American’s voted for popularity, not change, or down to earth, politics, they voted for who could entertain them the best, and he was the best showmen in town, and it shows as he tries to figure out what he’s going to do, and to be honest, he doesn’t have clue. It’s too early to say “I told you so,” and I hope really I don’t have to, but if the shoe fits, I will. On the other hand, I may owe a few people an apology, but I’d bet on that, I think I got a winning horse there, and I won’t have to apologize.
He signs bills and doesn’t know where he’s going to but the killers in the Cuban prison; there is even talk about giving them citizenship, are we all going crazy? I’d say send them back to their countries, the ones that want to put them in the electric chair, or hang them, and be done with it. The last group of 400-prisoners that were set free because of all these rightwing, self-righteous, human rights people, 67 of them went out and killed more Americans, more British, more Iraqis families, don’t the human rights works have a heart for the innocent, or only for the criminals. I was once a advocate, supporter in one of the groups, for prisoners worldwide, and the group asked me to send letters to get folks free, and I did, and I got a letter back from the Congress of the Phillipions, asking me if my group told me all about the fellow I was trying to get free. And I said, I think they did, and they sent me documentation, and he had killed three men, which no one told me about, and they had families, and so forth. And I confronted the issue, and it was explained to me: it was guerrilla warfare, against the government, again something I had to pull out of the man I was trying to free from prison. ´ Point here is, sometimes we just do things, out of emotions, thinking they are right, when we should do them out of thinking, investigation, and then proceed. I wrote the folks back and said, “I was never told the whole truth,” and that was Amnesty International, the liars, I had confronted them, and said I’d not do their dirty work for them ever again, I worked for a Federal Branch of the American Government back then.

Stimulus win; right on the Obama Track (letter .5)

2009-02-14T15:05:00.000-08:00

2-14-2009

I wrote four articles thus far on the new president, he is quite predictable, and everything has come to pass that I’ve written, and nothing has been for the good, except giving a black lady a home to stay in, and he didn’t do it out of his pocket, rather, out of the tax payers of America’s pocket, all the same it was a good gesture.
And now he is saying loud and clear and in so many words so is his beloved, CNN, and so are the White House Democratic Senators, the blind singing songs to the blind, they all must think American is some big fat donut.
It is all about the stimulus program, that it is right on track the Obama track that is, no one else’s track, yet we got CNN and all these other folks on the Obama teams yelling: united we stand, the Democrats and Republicans, now how silly can one be. He’s a Harvard man; he shouldn’t play the public for being dumb even if most of us out there are dumb, because it is insulting; he forgot the old saying: ‘What goes around comes around’ and it will bite him in the behind, sooner or later, such foolishness always does.
He had three republicans go along with his program, and 11-Democrates walk away from it, what does that tell you. It tells me, his own people know better, don’t agree with him. But we deserve what we get, and we will get it right where it hurts. We were all hyped up over a new hero—thinking he was Mighty Mouse or something, because he told us what we wanted to hear, and he threw a lot of salt in our soup, so it tastes good, but that is all we got for our time and money: salty soup.
I’m not negative, I’m a realist, like it or not. This is where we are at. In thirty years you can say, this is how it was…thirty years ago I remember a few presidents saying this and that, and the public going haywire over it all, and now what was considered foolishness then, is now…
I wish CNN, and the folks at the White House would stop calling it a ‘win’ it sounds like they were playing a game and won, and we all know it was already bought and paid for, long before he went and begged for the Republican vote, which he never got. It is like a boxing match, one that was fixed before the boxers even got into the stadium.

A Tucan against One

2009-02-13T16:05:00.001-08:00

In the morning after breakfast in the lodge dinning room, Chick Evens and his wife, Delilah, moved out to the open air patio, where there were three hammocks, they were deep inside the Amazon, one hundred and twenty five miles from, Iquitos, Peru, it was the month of March, of 2001, their first anniversary.
He had slept well, was looking fresh and wholesome, for his past middle age appearance. He picked up a magazine as he slipped over and into the loose and dangling hammock, constantly looking about for Big Beak, the Tucan mischievous bird. Although it had a colorful beak, and was a large and beautiful looking bird, it was a pest at best, a provoking menace at worse, that had attacked Mr. Evens two days in a row, but was the lodge’s mascot, an icon of sorts.
He was, the Tucan, simply an attention seeker among the people of the lodge, and Evans did not allocate any of his time, nor wish to accommodate the bird with any of his time, thus, avoiding giving any attention at all to the bird, whom he called the Beast-bird, or the Bird-beast, and this annoyed the Tucan.
This was his third day at the lodge, and he’d be leaving tomorrow, and he was hoping to lay back and enjoy the rest of the morning, when Big Beak arrived, another nickname, Evans bestowed upon the bird, shaking his feathers in the sunlit heated morning, under the shadow of his hammock.
The Tucan then started making noises under the hammock, if they had anything in common, it wasn’t this, it annoyed Evens; although the one thing they did have in common was the sun, the fresh air, but not the sight of each other.
“Here he goes again, with them confounded weird noises,” said Chick to his wife.
The Tucan moved down towards the end of the hammock, and with its long stretched out, hard boned beak, he grabbed a hold of Chick’s toe, it was hanging over he hammock, and he wouldn’t let go, until Chick took a swat at him, missed him with his round folded up magazine by no more than an inch, which only enticed the bird-beast to play more games to get more attention.
Several faces looked at Evens, about thirty-feet away, folks playing checkers, reading books, and having loose conversations, they gave him a ‘shame on you,’ look.
“Shoo,” yelped Evens, but the bird insisted on staying.
The feathers on the bird’s throat, stood out now, it was war, or at least a battle to be.
The Tucan came around towards Evens’ hand he let it loose, dangle over the hammock, and when the bird came to bite it, he grabbed his beak, and shook the bird, and let him go, and the folks now had turned to look at the American that was beating up on the poor helpless Tucan, but Evens paid them little to no attention, his thoughts were on the bird.
The bird was now madder than a hornet, and attacked Mr. Evens, trying to reach him, and Mr. Evens gave the bird a good swat, and that stopped his onward thrust, and Evens took that as a victory. But the onlookers were starting to get restless.
For several minutes the bird circled under the hammock, devising his plan of attack or retreat.

“Have you and the bird got over your squabbling yet?” asked Delilah.
“Very funny,” responded her husband, “too bad he doesn’t go over there to visit you.”
Evens was now talking to the bird, as if it was a deaf, child, “Read my lips,” he said, “go away, leave me alone.”
“You simply should not pay the bird any attention, and it will go away, be nice to the bird and off she’ll fly to visit someone else.” said Delilah.
“I’m tired being nice to this bird-beast, I don’t want to be nice, I want it dead or gone out of my life.”
“Don’t talk like that, if people hear you they’ll kick us out of here,” said Delilah, adding “she’s not going to eat you up.”
“I’ve tried hard to be its friend, I’ve come to the conclusion, no American can make a Peruvian Tucan happy, no matter what.”
“No,” said Delilah, “you got to be more patient like us Peruvians.”

Written 2-13-2009. Dedicated to Rosa.

Solutions to World Problems (the real deal)

2009-02-09T08:24:00.001-08:00

Solutions to World Problems by
D.L. Siluk

If I was the world leader here is what I’d do:

1) Go to Washington D.C., and get all the Obama followers, and Obama, off the Happy Pills they are using, and bring them back to reality, or, restart the stimulus program from scratch…with 830-billion happy pills, for everyone in the world. If you can’t beat them, have everyone join your clan.

2) Israel and Palestine, as Hamas and the PLO have both claimed: we will never give up, until Israel is out of the equation, I would order Israel to march the Palestinians to their beloved neighbors, such as Syria, and Egypt, and Iran, you all the ones that back them up with guns. They can buy them weapons, but how about living with them, that’s another question evidently, perhaps the wolf doesn’t like its own kind; and if I had to, I’d push them over the boarders, and let them have the problem of keeping the peace, of course in Israel, there would be peace, once you got the problem out.

3) I would stop yelping at Iran about the Nuclear issue, and give to their old enemy the nuclear bomb likewise, Iraq; next, I’d move all our troops out, and let Iran build their bomb, as Europe and the rest of the world seem to want, since they do not support an Israel, or for that matter any kind of air strike to bury them, and they think talk´-therapy will do the trick, let’s see what happens, I think there will be to big bangs, thus the problem is over.

Do the same thing with North Korea, let them build a nuke, we will most likely anyhow, and if we don’t let them, they will in secret, now give the south the big one, and Japan, and Taiwan, and let China cuddle her baby Taiwan, and see what the North has to say to the South, when everyone’s packing pistols, it’s a different story.

4) These are rough times for Alaska, an egg cost $2.00, just one, and fuel is costly, and all that kind of stuff. My recommendations are: move to the lower 48, or kill more whales, or polar bears, or pump more oil from those big reserves you folks have. There are solutions, and that should put the egg business out of business or lower the price a dollar or so. You can’t have your egg and eat it too.

5) Michael Phelps, I would have the Olympic team, stop counting on him to bring his support team to the rescue (they are leaving him also), and start raising some more pigeons, to see which one will be the easiest to groom for future Olympics. Mike is on a high, leave him be, like Brittney: you can bring a horse to water but you cannot make him drink it unless he’s thirsty: he’s got to see the light by himself, you can’t force feed him indefinitely.

The world is lucky I am not the world leader; I’d would simplify things, a bit, and the above is just a start…!