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Richard Deshong

Thanks for the catch. Of course I meant Siagon, but I bet even you knew that. Care to comment on the rest of my oost?

Bill RIHS

Richard, give it up! As Katie stated; to paraphrase, I am not changing my mine by anything you/Richard states. Vote for the personality, I get it🤮.

Nancy Scott (Nicoll)

Frank,  thanks for asking about Toby!  We leave next week for San Antonio to go to his graduation from Medic training!  He has sailed through the testing and is very excited and happy with the  choice he has made to be a Medic!

Next stop is airbourne school at Fort Moore in GA.  It's a fun challenge he is already looking forward to!  A retired Army Colonel friend of ours bought him a  Ranger training book which we sent to him.  Toby has his eyes set on possibly being an Army Ranger.

I just wish I could trust the man who is Commander in Chief of our Armed Services!  His mental capacity is certainly lacking and no one really knows who is making the decisions in the WH!

Bill RIHS

Nancy, best for Toby! Amen on our leadership!

Bill RIHS

Gerry and others, comment if you have sugestions. My itinerary for France.

Michael Wetzel

When I see the narcissist answering Michael K., and others, questions, just maybe someone would answer his !......

Kathy (Katie) Baribeau (Moore)

Bill, I read you itinerary and think it is fantastic.  What a gift you are giving your sons, this will be a trip that stays with them for the rest of their lives.  I would like to hear all about it if you would like to share!

Jim Coats

Bill Rihs.  Trip of a lifetime.  Food for a Patriot's Soul!

Michael Kelly

Frank W.  I have always thought that a Flat Tax Rate was the Fairest on all members of the populace. The reason is very simple, the more you buy the more taxes you pay, at a Flat Rate. The opposite end is that the Government is forced to become more streamlined, frugal, less room for idiotic programs funded with Taxes to develop Viruses manmade in a Lab in China, because it was and is illegal here, and then intentionally dispersing the Virus on the entire World population in order to see if we could actually defeat the Virus, and the list goes on by a Government or Governments who have managed to get their hands on "Excess Tax Dollars" and just get the itch to spend it. Better far better a government that is forced to exercise Restraint not too common these days. The Constitution does not support an all invasive Government and within the Language of the Constitution is the very language authorizing the overthrow of such a Gluttonous government which has grown way too large for its own purpose. By the way, I blame democrats for most of this, they just can't seem to keep their hands of  the  Purse and use the Most Noble Sounding Alleged Purposes to support their Swine Like Gluttony. Example  Just how  many multiple Billions have been spent on curing  the "homeless problem" which grows more outrageous the more money is spent upon it.

Democrats scream about everyone "paying their Fair Share" and depending on what motivates you, the definition of "Fair Share" changes. To stop this thinly guised Game of Envy a Flat Tax Rate is the perfect Response. Envy of Rich Folk is no way to build a Nation or Raise a Child.

My Solution for our Border Crisis. Simple, States that have a Border should have their own Volunteer Border Guard Armed and Combat Ready to Enforce a Strict Enforcement of Keeping the Border Safe, Secure, and Uncrossed. Biden refuses to do his Job, Democrats want it open so that they can have any kind of shot at winning in November, and Everyone Else is Afraid to say What I have Just Said. We the People are Fed Up with being patted on the Head and told to go home a drink Warm Glass of Milk. Time to end the False Front Stalemate, Forget on Voting Money for the Border, We Will do It ourselves, We Don't need Uniforms, we just Need Backbone. And, if your thinking of stopping us===============read the second amendment.

Dennis Moran

After seeing a program on Kaet 8 I know more about Trump than I ever did before....Another individual from the far past acted much like Trump did....I invite you all to take a look at the life of Julius Ceasar. Rome was a Republic where many powerful men lived.  History repeats itself and Trump is the Julius Ceasar of our time.

He is the only politician at the time would do what was needed to stay in power.  No other elected official has acted as closely and expressed what he would an did do for his counry.....

Dennis.

Dennis Moran

Nancy no matter who we have as President or for that matter in Congress or in the Senate. The chiefs of staff and the Defense department can an will work around whatever idiots we elect...They will also tell them when to come in out of the rain.....your grandson is safe from the mental midjets playing im in charge...they need to be able to protect our boys and I have faith they will.

Dennis.

Frank Wiley

Bill--I didn't see Mont-St-Michel on your itinerary.  You might google it.  It's a amazing story and a very neat place to visit.  I would put it above Pattons grave.  You will be very close to it when you are at Normandy.  Versailles is also amazing, especially the "Hall of Mirrors".  After walking through the Hall of Mirrors I had a better understanding why the French don't like to fight anymore. 

Mary Powers (Evans)

I've never been to Mont St Michel or St. Malo, but based on two fiction books I've read, it sounds fascinating:  Old Bones by Aaron Elkins and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

DeWitt Bacon

I'm seeing a few comments on a flat tax. I think that would be a fair way to tax. After all, God had a flat tax: 10% of your increase. That seemed to work out pretty well until greedy politicians came around.

DeWitt Bacon

Nancy. Good news about Toby. I wish him the best.

Bill RIHS

Thanks Frank, I will make that suggestion to the group,

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

Bill, Buzz's dad was a battalion surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division on D-Day, he never talked about it until after Buzz got home from Vietnam and then only to Buzz.

When we visited Normandy, we were in awe of what those men accomplished, you could feel it.  And that day was cold, windy, raining and nasty, just like the real day.  You will thoroughly enjoy it.

Frank Wiley

Today the Democrats refused to even hear the facts about Myorkas's incompetence and lying.  How many times have you heard Myorkas say, "Thr Border is Secure"!  I have heard him say that, under oath in Congressional testimony at least 4 times.  Senator John Kennedy summed it up well when he said the Democrats are saying it's ok to lie to Congress.  What the Democrats did was Unconstitutional because they wouldn't have the trial and hear the facts the House gave them.  Remember, Both Democrats and Republicans sit on all these Committee hearings so the Democrats sat and heard Myorkas lie!!

Frank Wiley

54 years ago today was when the announcement, "Houston, We have a problem!"  Was verbalized.  I remember where I was when we heard it.  I had received an "early out" from the Marine Corps to go back to college and was on campus.(My Active Duty was 2 years, 9 months, 3 Days, and 12 hours.  But who's counting!)I remember the drama of the hours that went by before Houston fingered out how to get Our Astronauts Home.  I can't remember if "Duct Tape" was involved?

Michael Kelly

I Choose to look upon the Resistance of closing the Southern Border, and efforts, all unsuccessful save those of Texas and Florida helping, at making inroads into an ultimate Resolution. It is clear that im meeting monumental amounts of Blockage and Perfidy even by his own Staff, Trump was largely successful in closing the flow of Illegal Aliens crossing  the Border.

Biden's refusal to make even the minimal Real Effort to control the Southern Border, the repeated Refusal of Sen. Schumerrr to  bring numerous Bills to the Floor of the Senate, which the House  passed back when Kevin McCarthy was still Speaker of the House, and still have been tabled and not been Read, the Failure today by the Senate Democratic Majority to even consider Impeaching Mayorkas, a confirmed Liar, all is a Building Block of Evidence that clearly Demonstrates that a New Policy needs to be Undertaken by the States, for the office  of the President and its obligatory Performance of the Duties attendant with keeping a Secure Border have been openly Shirked, and Laughed off, and Politicized for gaining Votes in the Fall Nov 2024 instead of being looked upon correctly as being a Bound Duty for the President to Perform. Biden needs to be Impeached. His Brag is that "You brought me to the Dance" is a taunt to all of us. The  language of a teenage smartass, not a President. We are not ""Stuck with Him" we are Burdened with HIm, like Deadweight, an Anchor on a Sinking Ship.

Frank Wiley

Have you seen all the Black People in Chicago who are wearing tee shirts advocating to change Chicago Red from Blue and some wearing "Make America Gteat Again" shirts and hats because of the Mayor using money that they think they should be getting---going to Illegals.  The Democratic Party Convention in Chicago this coming summer should be really interesting.  It might make the '68 Convention look like a Church social.  I Love it!!

DeWitt Bacon

Frank, if memory serves me, I believe that duct tape, or at least a NASA form of it, was used to seal the 'jury-rigged' oxygen converter used to get the astronauts home.

I am deeply appalled by the people who seem to be in favor of an authoritarian dictator and despot. Is that form of government you really want? Well, that's what this administration is giving us. I don't put Joe Biden in front of this effort. He doesn't know where he is or who he is half the time. He just wanders around doing and saying what he is told, and he is being told what to do by the Communists who have been paying him and his family millions. Say goodbye to free speech when Republicans and Trump supporters are censored and Trump has a gag order to prevent him from defending himself in public. But if you want to shout "DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL," that's just fine. This administration is Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Tse Tong, and the Ayatollah, and others all rolled into one. And many Democrats and some Republicans are all in for it. Chuckie Schumer does not want to secure the border. He doesn't want to impeach the liar working for the liar-in-chief. He does not want the truth to come out; He wants our country to go down in flames.

I want to tell you, comrade Schumer, "YOU HAVE RELEASED THE WHIRLWIND, AND YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE. YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HIT YOU IF YOU GO FORWARD WITH THESE AWFUL DECISIONS."

Michael Kelly

DeWitt  I join you in your 13460. Your all encompassing Statement of The Union is another whole stepping Stone to what is to inevitably happen. The day may come, hopefully never, that the Democrats will create the climate where they will, through Biden, declare that the Election will not tale place. This may come if Trump survives the multiple Trials he is now facing.As we can see from some of the outrageous statements even on this Forum, some place political power over the very Sanctitu and Safety of this Country.

Frank Wiley

Did you hear about the Juror who had been selected to serve on the Trump New York jury and has now been removed.  He said he had never been arrested and he could be unbiased.  After a little investigation it was found that he HAD been arrested and get ready for this-------he had been arrested for pulling down and destroying Republican political signs.  What a clown show this trial is becoming!!

Bill RIHS

I think this summer is going to make the "summer of Love" look like a birthday party. Can't wait for the democrats conversation.