Happy New Year 2016

I want to wish my family, friends and readers a healthy, safe and prosperous 2016. May all of your wishes and dreams come to pass.

Jimmy

Remembering Our Veterans

Happy Fourth of July

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my father in heaven and to all of the dads and step-dads who are there every day to watch over their families. It takes a father and a mother to raise a child as each one uses their particular knowledge and skills to help a child grow.

I was fortunate enough to have caring parents, who, despite their faults, managed to educate and raise three healthy and somewhat normal children.

The reality of it all is that if you were fortunate enough to have caring parents and you lived to be twenty-one and older, they have done their jobs.

Remember to acknowledge your parents each and every day as we never know when they will be called.

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Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom in heaven and to all of the beautiful Moms whose work goes largely unnoticed. The truth is every day is Mother's Day.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day !

For each petal on the shamrock. This brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day.

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Pearl Harbor - Remembering Our Soldiers

On Dec 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 soldiers and civilians and injuring many more. The unprovoked attack woke up a sleeping giant and came to an end in 1945 when Japan surrendered to America after two devastating H-bomb drops on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Today is a day to remember the men and women, both past and present, of our armed forces.

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Why Is Rep. Mike Rogers Stepping Down From Office?

Suppose you were Chairman of The House Intelligence Committee and it was your job to investigate what happened in Benghazi. What if your wife were the CEO of the very company contracted to provide that security? Would that not be a rather glaring conflict of interest?

Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is charged with investigating the adequacy of security at the Benghazi compound prior to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack. Rogers has announced recently, and rather abruptly, that he will be stepping down from representing Michigan in 2014 to host a national radio show syndicated by Cumulus Media.

His wife, Kristi Clemens Rogers was the president and the CEO of the company that was contracted by the State Department to provide that security. Mrs. Rogers, until recently, served as president and CEO of Aegis LLC, the contractor to the United States Department of State for intelligence-based and physical security services.

Aegis, a British private military company with overseas offices in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and the U.S., won a $10 billion, 5-year contract with the State Department to provide security for U.S. diplomatic posts around the world.

Congressman Rogers, has been criticized for dragging his feet in the Benghazi investigation. Only when pressure from backbenchers on his committee became intense did he agree to hold a hearing at which former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morrell testified.

Even then, observers noted how mild he was in his questioning, preferring to let Congressmen Peter King, R-N.Y., and Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., take the lead in asking the tough questions.

How on earth can the Rogers family justify having a husband who chairs a Congressional committee charged with reviewing the performance of his wife’s company in guarding the Benghazi compound?

Demands for a special select committee to investigate Benghazi have been heard ever since the attack took place, but now that the Rogers’ conflict of interest is exposed, they are likely to escalate.

The accusations of conflict of interest surface at the same time as the Inspector General for the State Department reported that $6 billion in department contracts, largely in Afghanistan and Iraq, couldn’t be accounted for. The contracts covering the work have disappeared.

Authors Note: Today's post is excerpted from Dick Morris http://www.dickmorris.com

That's our government, folks. Corrupt from the Presidency, the Senate and Congress. Some things never change.....

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Remembering The American Armed Forces

My prayers and best wishes go out to the men and women of the Armed Forces, both past and present, who defend America.

God Bless The U.S.A.

God Bless America

I'm taking a brief moment today to pray for and remember all of the victims of the September 11th 2001 massacre. My prayers and best wishes also go out to all of the members of the police and firefighters who risk their lives daily, and to the Armed Forces who defend America.

It is also a day to remember all of the gallant and heroic people behind the scenes who were there to aid and assist the victims of this tragedy and whose work continues today.

May God have mercy on us all.

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