Uncle Tree and Starting the Videos.

My buddy from High School Days, the famous Steven Paul Dupuy, commonly referred to as "Dupe", and sometimes known as "Uncle Tree", brought his gazillion dollar camera to my house and we made our first real video. If you do Face book, go to Steve Dupuy and you'll see his profile as well as a recent post made inside my house. It shows the camera and how we're set up.

I'm starting out with "History Lessons for the Uninformed". In today's day and time, that includes a boat load of people.

I decided to begin at the beginning and I cited the Boston Massacre of 1770 as a prime example of what happens when foreigners decide to kill Americans. As I have previously stated, killing the 6 Bostonians on that day eventually resulted in the death of 24,000 Red Coats.

I went from there to Pearl Harbor. We lost over 2,000 people on December 7th, 1941 but before it was over, there were over 9 million enemy losses.

I just wanted to give you an update on Dupe's job as production manager. I'm writing the script, doing the reporting and he's doing everything else. Standby for a few more days. I'll be able to forward the links to You Tube and you guys can check on it. It should be a whole lot easier for me to communicate my thoughts and report the facts by video cause all I have to do is use a few flash cards or a piece of paper where I write down the dates. No we don't have a teleprompter.

Hang in there. I may even get a guest or two to come by. I officially invite the Huey pilot known as "Curt 659" to come on over and take part in the history lesson. He has to come to  Shreveport from California so it may take a while but we are working on it. More to come. Thanks. Tim

Combat statistics from history.

It has occurred to me that combat is the ultimate form of problem solving. If you don't like your neighborhood, move. If you don't like your job, get another one.  If you don't like your bank balance, change your spending habits.

If some idiot moves to town and tells you that you have to change your entire world and fall in line with his way of thinking, that, as they say down here, "is a whole nuther thang". Let's take another look at history and see what has proven to happen when idiots like that come to town and start demanding that you do this or that.

If we use the first Boston Massacre as an example, you might be able to see problem solving in several different ways. Since that happened on March 5th of 1770, I think it's a great place to start. On that day, 5 Americans were killed and 6 were wounded.

If you use the Timmy Butler way of doin' math, multiply those 6 deaths by the number 4,000 and you will come up with 24,000 which just happens to be the number of British that were killed during the war.

To be fair, let me say that the Brits would probably say that we should use the number 3.51 because we lost a total number of Americans that is reported to be somewhere between 4,400 and 6,824. My number reflects the after effect of the six men killed at the Boston Massacre, not the entire war.

If you go to the Second World War, you can google the statistics from Pearl Harbor and see that we lost 2,386 killed in action. If you continue to use the Timmy Butler way of doin' math, you can use the multiplier of 984 to find out how many Japanese had to die before they figured it out. That comes up to 2,350,000 deaths that resulted from the 2,386 killed on December 7th, 1941. Get it? That's 984 Japs to 1 American.

The Nazi death count is a different thing. Since Hitler declared war on us when the Pearl Harbor attack took place, there isn't a Boston Massacre or Pearl Harbor data base to start with just for the Germans.

There is however, a total number of German and Japanese deaths to use as a comparison to the total number of Americans killed from the first shot at Pearl Harbor. That death toll turned out to be 9,250,000 German AND Japanese lives lost. The Timmy index shows that to be 3,876 enemy killed, per 1American life lost, with the first shot being taken on December 7th. That's what I call a "kill ratio". That's a pretty good number to use.

Now, if you go to that 911 death toll of 2,996 and use the 3,876 to 1 kill ratio, you will get a rough idea of the death toll that's needed before bone head figures out that you ought not piss off those Americans. Using that formula, the expected death toll to stop all their madness, runs up to 11,612,496 dead bone heads required to stop all this world domination stuff.

Before you get too judgmental about those numbers, I want to say that I am aware that advancing technology causes those numbers to increase in their effectiveness. There's a huge difference between a flint lock rifle used during the Boston Massacre of 1770 and the weapons used today. After all, we have come from 3.51 to 1 at the end of the Revolutionary War to 3,876 to 1 during the atomic age.

To be fair, if you include that increase, the one seen between the 3.51 to 1 kill ratio and the 3,876 to 1 ratio listed above, that's a factor of  1,104.27 times more deadly now than during the American Revolution. If you ask yourself "What's that mean?", let me say that it changes the required BONE HEAD INDEX to reflect a much larger death toll of the next war before bone heads figure it all out.

What's that mean in numbers? It means that the 11,612,496 calculated required death toll must increase to 12,820,195,584. Now, after doing all of this math and being very careful to use published data that can be verified by all, I am proud to announce that I have come to the never ending problem of searching for world peace between free men and those that wish to dominate the world and force everybody to their way of thinking.

I say that all we have to do is send them an arithmetic teacher, a few pictures from history and a video of a "closed border". You can also add a picture of Lt. Aldo Ray with that cause he's gonna demand those scalps. For those of  you who haven't seen "Inglorious Basterds", go rent it.

Y'all have a real nice day.

They sent him to JAIL, who's next?

This week has been full of good news.

Don't you just love it when a slime ball gets caught, charged, convicted and thrown into jail! I sure do, especially when it's a crooked politician. To make the story even better than that, this politician is from Louisiana, my home State. This is just too good to be true.

Before I tell you who it is, let me say that I hope we are seeing a trend here. I say that because I can think of many more who need to change their place of residence to one that is more conducive to the public good where they can do no more harm to the American way of life.

An associate of mine asked for a manslaughter conviction when his letter to the Washington Post was published. Unfortunately, that was not to be. The manslaughter request was made because of the thousands that drowned during Katrina. If you haven't guessed by now, let me say that it was :" Ray Nagin", former Mayor of New Orleans.

What a great way to start the long job of locking up the crooks that invade the political system at every level. You think he's the only one? Nah.

I'm so sick of hearing this garbage that all veterans are mentally ill that I've come to the conclusion that anybody that would say that is guilty of a long list of crimes against Americans. We are, after all, 23 million strong. The fact that all of my male relatives served in the armed forces of the United States makes the allegations of mental illness, an assault on my family, my entire family. That includes my USMC brother and my USN son.

The accuser, Diane Feinstein, the woman we refer to as "Slimestein", doesn't appear to have any military back ground. She's lucky that my Uncle Parker isn't knocking on her door. He was a USMC veteran of the Pacific Theatre. I can almost see that smile on his face when he asks her to tell him about her combat record. After a moment of silence where she has to answer that she has none, I can see that little grin just before he says: "So, you have none at all?".

Being the gentlemen that he was, I know that he wouldn't have done anything violent or verbally abusive but being the smart man that he was, I know that he would have added: "So, you are totally ignorant of the facts and have nothing at all to base your statements on." At that point, I think he would have simply said: "Come on Timmy, the bible says "From all things evil, abstain. Let's get out of here"

My Uncle Woodrow wouldn't have cussed her out or said anything ungentlemanly, either. I don't think any of my mother's brothers would have given her a tongue lashing.

My Butler kin folks would be a different matter. Uncle Charles, U.S. Army Air Corp, my daddy's brother in law, would have said: "Jesus, Mary and Joseph, how could anybody that stupid be in Congress". Uncle Raymond, my daddy's brother, former Golden Glove Championship boxer, would have given her a mouth full. Rather than delivering a knock out right cross to the head, I think he would have pinched her with the most powerful thumb and index fingers on the planet.

Even though all of them had great kids, it's a shame that they couldn't clone men like that and keep them around just for times like these.

In any event, the moral of this story has to surround the incarceration of Ray Nagin and his abuse of the Mayor's office in his "Chocolate City". There's hope here, folks. Who's next? I'm anxiously awaiting. Go ahead and Google "Ray Nagin Conviction". You'll be glad you did.  

Finally, another Veteran gets some help.

I received a phone call this morning from one of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment pilots I flew with in Vietnam. He was excited to announce that he has finally managed to get in the VA system and get some help. He had to drive from the Gulf Coast of Alabama all the way to Birmingham to seek help but despite that, he stayed with it and after more than a year, he's managed to get enrolled and begin the long, drawn out program of receiving the kind of care that is deserved, especially when the bullets come through the chin bubble and, in a sense, knock your sox off. Cambodia was hell on earth and he lived in hell for at least 7 months that I remember.

The point I want to make has to do with attitude and perseverance.

Despite the fact that Vietnam Veterans received the shitty end of the stick when they returned, many of them went on to a productive life at work and re-entered civilian life as model citizens. As an unfortunate part of that, so too was Agent Orange doing it's work. Most of us managed to have immune systems that were good enough to fight off the effects until later in life when our immune systems aren't what they once were.

In the same sense that Mustard Gas had it's effects, just like Agent Orange, the Government had to do its duty in dealing with that. It cost a lot of money but it wasn't nearly as costly as having foreigners invade our Country to enslave us.

Over time, something happened to the process where the representatives within the government, had a change in "attitude". I think that comparing the amounts of money spent on foreign gifts, sometimes referred to as foreign aide, when compared to the budget approved for VA operations, should be enough evidence to demonstrate that to be true.

Any way you look at it, I think it's a shame that any combat veteran that suffers from any wound, shouldn't have to take a back seat to some multi billion dollar "foreign aide" package. I believe that it should be against the law and that anyone who votes to do that should be guilty of treason or aiding and abetting. This is certainly true about the most recent sore spot where a gazillion dollars worth of equipment was given to a Country in the Middle East.

As I see it, sending billions of dollars worth of tanks and jets to the enemies of our Country AND our allies and thereby, robbing the Nation's heroes, should be a capitol offense punishable by immediate deportation. Appeasement my ass! That's aiding and abetting.

The same can be said of allowing social security payments to those who don't own a penny of the funds there and never contributed anything to the fund. You vote to let them have it, you get deported too. If we do that, our Veterans will finally be able to get their just due.

I will close this by giving you a quote that Margret Thatcher made during the decision process of sending the fleet to take back the Falklands from Argentina.

Amidst all the nay sayers that claimed it was too small to make any difference and too far away from England to matter, Margret Thatcher asked the Ambassador from the Unites States if they felt the same way about Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. Good point!

Eventually, after she tired of the punks who were afraid to defend themselves and didn't feel it was right to go after them or the British citizens who lived there, she asked them to do one thing.

"Stop FEELING and start THINKING".     

Another Officer Bites The Dust.

Go to google then to snopes and type in "Lt. Colonel Matthew Dooley Fired". I hope that's enough of a source document to give credence to my ranting and raving about the Military Purge that we are experiencing.

You will discover that some Islamic Group complained about his course of instruction at The War College and that complaint resulted in his dismissal. Well, I have a complaint about that. Here goes:

What in God's name are Muslims doing knowing anything about the teachings that go on at our military institutions? In my world, they are spies and should be immediately arrested and charged with any number of crimes. In defense of that, let me ask you to review the Ft. Hood shootings that should be referred to as Ft. Hood Murders by a Muslim. Do the math.

History shows that there's only so much we can take before the shit hits the fan. I say that the shit is just about to do exactly that. Y'all have a nice day. I'm going to the hospital. Tim

Hate is a good thing and Sadness is a far cry from Depression.

Mixed emotions going on here.

On the high side of mixed emotions, let me say that I'm most thankful for the care I have been given at the VA and for the resulting ability it has given me to properly classify a number of emotions we all have. Hate is one of them.

Until recently, I hated a Captain from my days in Vietnam and I hated him more than any other human being on the planet. In 1971, in the midst of supporting black ops during the Cambodian Invasion, I threatened to kill him and I meant it.

I left the Army because of him and I knowingly did that at the cost of flying the twin rotor, Chinook CH 47, a transition course I  had already been approved for. Hatred sometimes has a huge price tag and sometimes it lasts a lifetime. I carried that with me for 47 years and I never spent a single year of freedom from that level of hate.

On the low side of mixed emotions, I've lived to see some things that have taken me to the pits of sadness. There's a long road between sadness and depression but whether it's the death of a loved one or something as simple as the death of a pet, I know the difference between sadness and depression.

I say these things because I discovered something today that makes me very, very sad.

For the first time since World War II ended, the governments of Germany and Japan are re-arming. That's right. Things have changed so much, no one can depend on their ally to come to their aid in the event they are attacked. That's one hell of a decision to make, especially from Countries that experienced the death and destruction that comes when you make the wrong decisions.

When I think about my father and mother, I think about the move they made from Shreveport to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana during the 2nd World War. They worked like dogs until the War ended and they were able to go home. Uncle Woodrow went to Chicago with the Navy and his brother went to New Guinea.

When I think about my Uncles, they were incredible and fought in every Theatre of the war. Uncle Earl's job was killing Nazis in U Boats off the east coast. He was hunting subs for the Coast Guard and spent many nights in the cold, dark Atlantic trying to kill them before they killed any more of us.

Uncle Charles was with the Army Air Corp and his brother, Uncle Joe, fought against Irwin Rommel and the Afrika Corp where the Muslims captured him, turned him over to the Nazis, and he spent the rest of the war in a Nazi POW camp.

Uncle Wayne fought his way from Normandy all the way to Mathausen Concentration Camp where he was the first U.S. Army Medic to walk through the gate, look at the starving, emaciated Jews that were imprisoned there awaiting death in the gas chambers, and then he told them "We are Americans, we've killed all the Germans and we're here to liberate you".

On the day after D Day at Normandy, Uncle Parker, Uncle Morris Ray and a personal friend, Eddie Joyce, left Hawaii on board U.S. Navy ships and began the long, deadly trip through the Pacific Theatre, all the way to Tokyo via Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa and Iwo Jima. With today's news, I have to ask myself, what in the hell happened to the things they fought for?

I don't believe my sadness should be viewed as any kind of weakness whatsoever. It comes from a true sense of love and admiration for the true heroes from World War I (Uncle Shirley Hebert) and World War II. It also includes my USMC brother Leland who lived in "Rocket City", Chu Li, South Vietnam and my son, Tim Jr. who spent his tour in the Persian Gulf aboard the USS Enterprise, a most famous aircraft carrier.

When I add all of the officers and men who helped me along the path of a helicopter pilot that flew Nighthawk Gunships with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade and the 11th Armored Cav and then transitioning into OH6s to fly Scout missions with Hunter Killer Teams, I assure you, we all took our turn in doing our duty.

You might ask how I've managed to be sad instead of depressed. I'll tell you. More than anything, during 4 years of study in the PTSD and Suicide Prevention Department at the VA, I've taken a 12 week long, very intensive course of instruction that focuses on "emotions" at the VA hospital.

Thanks to Roger Flatt for that and thanks also to everybody else there who has been so supportive in helping me along the long path that comes after TBI, brain surgery, chemo, radiation and all of the little gifts that keep on giving when those treatments are finished.

Thanks to Guy Kinnebrew, Dr. Phillip Haddad, my niece Paige, a great nurse, thanks to Becky, Waylon, Lisa, Doctor Barnes, Rosie Mason, my patient advocate, Dr. Khakani, who has worked wonders on my Agent Orange issues and Vincent in the Cat scan Department. They aren't the only ones.

Outside of the VA, there are lots of guys that I flew with as co pilot and Pilot in Command. There were gunners, crew chiefs, one former jeep driver and members of the Mustang Motorcycle Club that showed up in Houston to lend support during the emergency brain surgery.

Thanks to Tim Jr and Kristin for leaving the Enterprise and allowing me to live with them from the time of the wreck in June of 2009 until January 1st, 2011 when I managed to move from their home and begin to live by myself.

Thanks to Jay, Woody, Hubert and Richard for keeping me on the payroll until December of 2010 when the mandate to retire was made. Tons of people giving tons of help have allowed me to stay "Intellectually Engaged" and not allow the current set of circumstances to overcome me.

In the words of Bernie Diable, let me say this: "Pay attention to detail". When you do that, you'll see that history repeats itself and when it does, sometimes it gets really nasty. Keep that in mind and remember that a guy with half a brain, one eye and a 4 year long history of being in "The Mental Health Clinic", told you so. I'm sure that there will be more on this later. History demands it.