Who needs an ass whippin'

There's a title for you to read out loud. WHO NEEDS AN ASS WHIPPIN? Sounds kinda cool when you say it out loud, don't ya think?

In pursuit of trying to find out who needs an ass whippin, I've done some pretty serious study. As an example of that, think about this: When we found the idiots who started the First and Second World Wars and then whipped their asses good and proper, why then are things still so screwed up in so many parts of the world? Did the idiots who survived all that learn nothing?

My family learned a whole lot of stuff between 1935 and 1945. After all the required ass whippin took place and the war was over, they came home to make love not war. It worked great for them as they built houses, grocery stores, businesses, joined the police force, got jobs and had lots of kids.

It worked really great for us cause we had lots of first cousins who were really neat. As a result of all that, the cousins built houses, a grocery store, joined the fire department, sold oil field supplies, did that college degree thing and had great careers. Worked like a charm and insured that our clan would never be found on the list of idiots or among any of those who needed an ass whippin.

Despite the "make love not war" thing that went on within our family, some baby boomers were only 5 years old when the Korean War heated up and others were only 10 when the paper work between South Vietnam and Washington started flowing.

It never ceased to be a curiosity in my life as the way I had it figured out focused on the millions of war dead on all sides and to me, those numbers would be sufficiently large enough to get the idiots to go hide somewhere or just shut up and leave well enough alone.

Some of those idiots I am referring to must have been out of town or something like that when all the killin' was going on or else they were just so stupid they needed a real good ass whippin' to help them figure it out. 

It's pretty clear to most of us that the numbers killed during the wars didn't entice the remaining idiots to shut up and leave well enough alone. In effect, it only changed the geographic location of history's dumber mistakes a little bit. If you keep in mind the previous statements I've made about the stupidity of Man, you may begin to see what I'm talking about.

From a geographic standpoint, all we've seen is a movement from Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Dunkirk, Omaha Beach, Bastogne and Berlin, to other places throughout the world.

When I read the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire I began to get the big picture and understood the connection between "Colonialism" and those who were to be "Colonialized". There's a thought for you. Somewhere along the line somebody forgot to ask: "What about the people"?

I don't blame the French or the Japanese for Vietnam any more than I blame either one of them for Korea. I do however, accept that the French Colonialists came to South East Asia and tried to peddle their brand of life to the Vietnamese and were only interrupted by the Japanese who came there and demanded that the people fall in line with their ideology of the Co Prosperity Sphere. That didn't work either and resulted in another ass whippin for them.

Oddly enough, the French, who had already shown their lack of capacity for war with Hitler, simply became numb to the lessons and experiences they had during that time or they were simply dumb. In my opinion, after the second world war, when they came to Vietnam, they were promoted somewhat and gave us all a better understanding of Dumb and Dumber. Their defeat at Dien Bien Phu sometime around 1954 should have mandated a history course in every French school but I'm pretty sure that  didn't happen.

In any event, it appears to me that World War II has taken a couple of vacations and stopped fighting for a while. If you have a question or two about that, you may want to google places like Libya, Beirut, Egypt, North Korea and some of the places where all those pirates hang out. Seems to me that there's some pretty serious ass whippin on the horizon and that the Stupidity of Man posts that I've made in the past, do have some serious thoughts as well as some valid points.

I'll continue connecting all the dots here but will take off for now and await a few more comments before continuing. Thanks.

History after 1945

If you will go to google and type in "The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem" you will get a better picture of the things that I've been studying. When and if you do that, you may get a better account of things than one can find in the main stream media's explanation of why things are so screwed up in the Middle East.

As an example of that, google will show you a picture that was taken in 1941 when Haj Amin al Hussini met with Hitler in Berlin. He also met with Himmler, Von Ribbentrop and other leaders from that group. It won't show you pictures of the 20,000 rag heads he recruited to serve in the SS but that did happen. They chased down and helped execute Jews from Croatia and Hungary.

The French captured his sorry ass but he escaped in 1946 and made his way back to Cairo and then moved to Beirut. Great neighborhood, don't you think. He stayed there until his death in 1974.

Having said that and provided the source documents for you to read, you may conclude that we screwed up when we stopped at Berlin and went to Tokyo. Maybe half of us should have headed to Cairo to finish the job of killing the other henchmen Hitler had in his corner.

Having said this, I hope you will go to google and get the rest of the information. It will help you have a better understanding of things that will come. There will be a test but I won't be the one giving it. Despite that, you're going to have to take it whether you like it or not.

Rather than hit you with a ton of information, I'll just give you this little tidbit of information and hope you do a little homework and learn the things I have. If you consider the big picture and accept that the time frame from the 1930's until Hitler's defeat only represents one part of the problem, you will be able to see how his main focus of killing the Jews simply continued even though he was grave yard dead.

I don't think that I need to waste any time outlining the violence and the killing that has taken place in the middle east as we see it all the time. I'll simply assume that you will take a minute and read what I've suggested and connect the dots from Hitler's rise to power and the continuous mess that has existed since dip shit escaped from the French in 1946.

Did I forget to mention that Saddam Hussein's uncle was one of the guys in the club that the Grand Mufti formed? Oops. I guess adding him to the mix would give you some kind of thought process that would help connect the dots between 1930 to 1974 and then from there to Saddam's neck tie party in Baghdad.

Okay, that's all of the hints you get today. If you will, please take just a moment to do the google thing I suggested because it will all come together a little later on in another post.

Thanks to John for sending information relative to future posts. Thanks to Bernie and his daughter who prints these and passes them along to others in her office. Thanks to Doctor John A who has become a convert to history and is now very well informed about these kinds of things. Thanks to Neil Rose for providing so many stories of his childhood during Hitler's bombing of England.

Today's history lesson.

I've had a number of people suggest that I write a book. Some wanted it to be about Vietnam, some wanted it to be a work of fiction to depict my idea of saving America and some wanted it to be a historical work that shows how stupid man is and why the violence and murder from dictatorships never seem to end.

I took those suggestions seriously and began a very intensive study of written history that started in Egypt, included the story of Moses, the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire, Genghis Khan and the most recent historical accounts from the Spanish, French and English.

It was quite interesting and especially so when I began to study the details of the European exodus when so many Europeans came to North America. When we became somewhat cross ways with the tax situation from King George or whatever his name was, and we started throwing tea into the harbor, it seemed to me that history wasn't going to change anything except the geographic location where it was being written.

After I checked out the "Stupid Index" and saw that the violence and idiocy that was contained by those who wished to rule the world, I concluded that man is a pretty stupid guy. When you work your way up to the late 1800's and move toward the first World War and then to Hitler, you will be amazed at the level of idiocy that existed then and still exists today. That's where I discovered the "Stupid Index".

After an intense study of all this, I concluded that there was one common denominator that proved to exist as the only solution to the problem.  Regardless of how you might think about it, the fact remains that the Killin' Bidness has proven to be the only solution. Sound crazy? Think about this.

The Romans were first. Lots of killin went on there before the Christians won and the Lions lost. Hannibal was a player and so was Constantine. If you get up to 600 a.d. and move forward, you'll see that nothing really changed much and that the Stupid Index only changed as a function of geography.

The Spanish, French and even the English botched their opportunities and derailed things when their "Passion overcame their Principles". It took a whole lot of killin bidness to get that all squared away but by the time all that was over with, here comes Adolph Hitler, the war mongers from Japan and that idiot in Italy whose grand daughter posed naked for the cameras. Benito would have really been pissed but it was too late as he had already fallen prey to the killin' index. You can google Benito Mussolini's grand daughter and check out the pic. She has a really great rack.

If you want a little hint as to how you may identify those in the Stupid Index, take a look at those who want to take over the world, create a 1,000 year Reich or simply TAKE everything. That's a pretty good starting point.

If you want a hint as to the solution to that kind of problem and those kinds of people, take a look at the casualty lists from World War I and World War II. The numbers run all over the place but between Hitler, Stalin and Tojo, I've seen them listed as a low of 50 million to a high of 200 million when all civilians are included.

Despite the huge difference in the casualty list, here comes that common denominator again. It surrounds the fact that the only thing that worked was the effectiveness of the Killin' Bidness. Hitler wouldn't quit killin the Jews so everybody got together and wiped out Nazi Germany. Tojo wouldn't quit using babies in Nanking for bayonet practise so most of Japan was burned down or melted. Worked like a charm, didn't it!

That brings us up to 1945 but there's lots of stuff still going on that was going on when those idiots were still running their game plan. If you would like me to continue with this, send me an email and I'll keep on going. If not, do nothing and I'll simply stop. Thanks, I just needed to give you guys a little head start on what's coming.

Tim

I survived Christmas

I made two trips to the Emergency Room at the VA hospital during Christmas vacation. One was for the flu and the other one was for the loss of feeling in my left arm. The arm situation happened at half past ten pm and I decided that I was going to wait until the next morning before I made the trip to the ER. I decided that I was not going to call an ambulance and that there was no way I was going to attempt to drive to the hospital at that time of night on Christmas Eve.

I also decided not to wreck Tim Jr and Kristin's Christmas Eve celebrations and would simply notify the VA by email and give them the facts that I had experienced that evening. I figured that would be pretty smart as I wanted someone to know what was going on if I woke up the next morning dead. The ER physician didn't agree with me on that one but he's a new guy and didn't really know what I had already been through so I blew off his determination of that and asserted that I was fine and proved that to be so when I took the neuro test.

Tim Jr wasn't very happy when he found out what had happened. To use an old phrase: "It went over like a fart in a space suit". He was somewhat put out at me and mentioned the N word....as in nursing home. From my perspective, I considered the following things before I made my decision to stay home and simply hunt and peck an email to the hospital.

1. The weather outside was horrible, cold and wet.
2. I felt okay and the feeling to my arm and fingers returned shortly after the episode began.
3. Tim's mother in law was in for a visit and lots of family plans had been made for Christmas Day.
4. I was watching the SMU game and it was too good to leave.
5. I know how I feel better than anyone and the decision was mine and mine alone.
6. I get to do what I want to do most of the time and I wanted to stay home.
7. I did not want to get out in the freezing rain and risk a car wreck en route to the ER.

Having said all of that, let me add this. A recent Cat scan showed no new brain wave abnormalities and the read outs were no different than the previous Cat scans I had seen. I had no fever and all of my vital signs were really good especially blood pressure and pulse.

Since I'd already made 5 or 6 trips to the ER in the last year or so, I figured that sooner or later I would either return home and be fine or I would be dead as a hammer which would more or less put me in a position where I could care less. In view of the fact that everything turned out all right except for pissing off a number of people, I have concluded the following:

1. Sometimes it's not best to let everybody know what's up.
2. Sometimes it's better to report: "a tingling sensation in my arm" during my next visit to the Doc.
3. I would rather be dead than in a nursing home bed.
4. I still have my motor home and can run away.
5. I'm doing fine and ergo, the decision I made was a good one.
6. No matter what I do, I can't change the brain damage or anything else.
7. Party when you can and to hell with the rest of it.
8. Christmas has been postponed until this week end, weather permitting.
9. Would you rather be happy or right?

The way I see it, in this case, for me personally, I am both.

Welcome Tim Wigman

In the late 50's when my father passed away, I began attending Catholic boarding schools. It ended up being one of the best decisions my mother made for me and the experiences I had there have served me well over my life time.

I started off in 1959 with a summer session at Subiaco Academy near Paris, Arkansas and then went to Morris School for Boys in Searcy. My cousin Greg came with me as his dad and uncle both attended Morris when they were kids. It was a Crafts family tradition and since they grew up to be self made men who were very successful, that path was chosen for me and it was a good one. Greg's dad married my dad's sister and that's how the connection was made.

Tim Wigman was one of those kids out of 109 that one always remembers. He was the only one that had a record player and Tim introduced us to Elvis Presley and later on, the Beatles. A few years back, Greg and I were playing on the computer thinking about Morris School and thoughts of Tim Wigman led us to a search to find him. Now, we find a connection by email that came in this morning as did a request to send his buddy Ben, a link to this blog.

In any event, hello to Tim and family.

 

Flashbacks, Study and Understanding

Over the past couple of months, I've noticed a large change in a couple of sites I follow. One of the owners has been sick and completely off the day to day posting. He's been fighting cancer and I completely understand how he was unable to post anything.

Oddly enough, the owner of the second site published an editorial that indicated a concern that things weren't correct and he didn't like the direction his site was moving toward even though it depended on member participation for input. In all fairness to the owner, let me qualify his statement as one that came during the election and he didn't want to see the site "politicized".

His concerns that the input from the membership was moving his military site in the wrong direction, apparently didn't sit well with the group as it stopped the participation and it's been dead as a hammer since September 21st when he posted his concerns about "Site Correctness". Since both sites are hosted by military men, I began to wonder what in the hell happened to the second one.

As I considered everything, I concluded that the total input from all the members would only cover a short period of time spent in combat during the war in Vietnam. A year doesn't seem to be a short period of time when you are in combat but 43 years later, it seems to be only a flashback of some real intense experiences as we weren't in combat every, single day.

After we had submitted photos, movies and stories of combat missions, we seemed to progress from who we were then toward a more current explanation of who we were now or who we had become.

There were great stories from some of our wounded who went on to obtain Doctorates and MD's from the GI Bill. Other stories of success in careers followed with one that included a 37 year long career as a professional photographer and another one that surrounded a career in construction.

After that, things seemed to slow down a bit and I suggested that we input information that might be considered as "who we would become". Some of the guys stood up to the plate and began work to get the lost pay checks and awards and decorations squared away. It may be hard to believe but some of the troops missed paychecks completely and others who earned a number of medals, received none.

Since I was one of the members who never received a single award or decoration during the last 7 months of my tour, I really appreciated the thoughts and efforts to push the paper work through. When I came to this particular unit, I had already been awarded a Bronze Star and a load of air medals so I wasn't very interested in awards and decorations.

Unit Citations were earned by everybody in the troop but many never received them. I'm also one of the many from that group. Air medals, an award that came with the number of combat assault hours we spent flying in combat were more or less automatic. Despite that, many never received a single one. I spent hundreds of hours flying combat assault missions but so did my co pilots, gunners and crew chiefs. They didn't get them either.

Somewhere between the story of who we would become and the editorial called "the direction of the site", it crashed.

I began to read everything I could about the history of our Country. The Revolutionary War was one that brought about a specific bit of information and in a sense, opened the door to understanding how political statements can be troublesome to a certain number of people in our society. I'm glad to say that despite that, we had enough real patriots in our midst to overcome that and we went on to establish the land of the free.........as in freedom of speech.

Having said that, and knowing well what my short comings are, I've decided to completely disengage from the site. I check it several times every day but only find myself being dissappointed with the never ending nothingness that exists there.

I'm not certain that I will disengage from my efforts to get "EveryVeteran.com" formed but in view of a couple of comments that I received from the Veterans I've invited to join in with the efforts to help the VA hospital out, I think it's time for me to simply pass the baton on to others.

You may have noticed that I've deleted the "get started" post I made a couple of weeks ago but if you haven't, the negative comments have produced in me a level of understanding that I'm not the guy to lead the way.

I've admitted that since day one and hoped to find some leadership with my postings about it, but at this point, I've only found nay sayers instead of real leaders.

That's just the way some people are and the way I am, doesn't allow nay sayers to even have a say. I concluded that they weren't going to offer anything positive anyway and would rather focus on finger pointing instead of leading the way.

In view of that, let me wish whoever may step up to the plate, the best of luck and my support of any efforts they pursue to help the wounded warriors with their plight. I will finish by sharing the advice to watch out for the assholes who will try to block your efforts to help. Believe it or not, they are out there and would rather take from than add to your efforts to help.





 














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Birthday, Grandbaby and a new thought

November 4th, 1948 was a long time ago. I'm starting another year off with really good news as Tim Jr and Kristin have just announced that there will be a new Butler Family member coming along sometime around the end of May or early June.

My skull is doing better but my legs need a bit of work. I'm back on the walking cane but I think it's due to the long period of time of not working. I don't necessarily like the VA's term that I'm "un-employable" but I understand it and totally accept that they are right. Some days are good and some days are bad but even on the good ones I would have a  hard time meeting any kind of commitment with any degree of certainty.

Melissa said I need to go to the physical therapy lab but I told her that it looked more like a torture chamber to me. I made a trip there about two weeks ago and instead of seeing a good looking nurse like the ones that were in Oncology and Radiation, Attilla the Hun answered the door. This guy has arms bigger than most people's legs. He's  huge and I guess that catching 200 pound Veterans as they fall, is the reason they have him there instead of a nice, petite nurse.

I've made a ton of progress in my efforts to form Every Veteran Dot Com but the progress has mostly surrounded meetings with attorneys, web site people and an "IT guy" that knows how to put all that together. I wish I could have made it a reality before the election but I never intended it to be something that would effect that race anyway.

It's always been about organizing all of the Veterans across the Country into a single organization that would allow us to lobby every Congressman and Senator to help the Veterans with their Benefit Packages by insuring that those who are elected to represent us, vote the way we need them to vote.

Anything that involves 22.7 million people is a difficult thing to organize and not being in the best physical shape makes it more difficult than I had imagined. I've met with two attorneys already but the one that was a perfect fit as a Veteran was an oil and gas attorney. He gave me some great advice and put me on the path to meet a tax attorney. That was a great first step but the tax guy wasn't a Veteran.

I don't think I'm being too picky I just believe that the best possible players in this deal have to be Veterans who totally understand what it's like to do the things we've done, see the things we've seen and suffer the wounds we've suffered.

Once I get the best of the best lined out in the legal department, I'll be able to find someone to help with the leadership end of it. I may be the one that came up with the idea but I know I'm not the guy to carry the load.

I've been dissappointed with a few of the things I've bumped into along the way. I initially figured that there wouldn't be a single Veteran in the entire Country who wouldn't totally support the concept of filling the budgetary needs of the VA. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

I'm really not all that surprised to find some Veterans who are afraid to get involved especially now that I understand the politically divisive issues that have been eating away at our society and our very way of life.

More than anything, I think it's been difficult to get everybody lined up because, as my older brother warned me, some people will either disagree with the thoughts of addressing every elected official directly or afraid that their favorite man has made a mistake in how they've handled Veteran budgets and that they made a mistake by voting him in. I understand that admitting a mistake is tough to do but turning your back on your fellow Veterans because of that, is really hard for me to swallow.

It's still a bit strange that things are that way and that political support for an elected official would ever out weigh the support one Veteran would have for another but unfortunately, that's the way it is in some cases and I've accepted that and simply moved on.

Despite those short comings, I continue to go elsewhere with the message and continue to gain support. In that light, life is good, it just isn't completely good. Like Eastwood said: we have "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".

Still committed. Still enthusiastic about it all. Will continue with the updates especially the one that I will be proud to make when the legal end of it is accomplished. More to come.