AN EAGLE SOARED ON HOODOO MOUNTAIN

There are lots of things about aging that can be made into a laugh, a joke or a witty remark, but the truly hardest thing about turning another year grey, are those wonderful family and friends you lose.

In Idaho, a man who lived on a mountain, a man who loved and served his country, a man who loved independence, freedom and America's pioneer spirit, joined those in history and became another echoing spirit, of American liberty. His name was Fred Houck, and although his mortal light flickered out, his shining spirit, still gleams as bright and vibrant as his determined will illuminated him, in life, as a distinctly fine and proud man. 

Fred passed on to the next world quickly and without warning but left a legacy of fond memories and chiding advice on being a free American, to those that had the privilege to know him. His most famous line, indeed, signature statement, was "We will not be ruled!"

He hated what liberalism (communism, socialism) was doing to his country, and he knew, as we all do, that the left is a small minority, that have infiltrated into authority positions, in our government and media. It makes them seem larger than they are, and Fred always had confidence, that eventually, the good traditional Americans of this country would rise up against the left's anti-American ideology. 

Fred believed in his countryman, and was always upbeat and optimistic. If you loved your country and wanted to keep its constitutional foundations, Fred would welcome your voice and friendship. We are grateful that he lived to see Trump become President, knowing that the tide was finally was shifting, from leftist sedition and corrupt politicians.

Fred knew that Americans came in all colors, races and original nationalities, and if you stood four square for your country, and was proud of her, then Fred saw you a compatriot that needed to do his or civic duty, to defend America's values. But rather than try and paraphrase Fred views and beliefs, I offer Fred's own words in which he elegantly expresses his deeply held convictions.

Author: hoodoo » Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:38 pm

"What is a Traditional American ?
When I was growing up I was a 'normal' American. Everyone I knew and every person society admired loved America and was proud of being an American. We knew that our representatives, for the most part, did as we directed, kept taxes low, respected and loved God, Motherhood, and baseball. We all knew the words and meaning behind our National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance. We were Americans.

About the time I graduated from high school, and after that fat ugly guy beat the UN podium with his cheap shoe, the hippies appeared to declare the "establishment " so "over". The stolid old-fashioned traditions of Christian morals , Right and Wrong, and National pride, held by "conservatives" were disdained by the 'flower children'. I enlisted for War, they marched in the streets against us. Now I was a war-mongering, xenophobe, and a prejudiced, narrow-minded "conservative. The protesters were "Liberals"

As the hippies went from the streets to the faculties, from the faculties to the LSM, and the demorat party, I remained a "conservative". Now I was told that I was among the abnormal fringe, right-wing. Part of a much maligned bunch of flag-waving Patriots of a bygone age. So Over. The odd thing was that I hadn't changed my views or ideals since back when I was a "normal" American.

I still believed that America, as I knew her, is the greatest Nation in the history of man. I still believed in God and Judeo-Christian morality, in the absolute value of the nuclear, hetero-sexual family. Anyone who argued against America in my presence still had a fight on their hands with an opponent who never learned to quit.

I recognized years ago that too many good American citizens had disengaged from their duty as citizens. Too many were willing to ignore the tyranny of the ever expanding government in the hands of self-serving politicians. I didn't have a voice that reached beyond my friends and associates and felt powerless. The new media changed that for all of us. We have no more excuses. We must rise to our duty as citizens and fight for this Nation here at home.

I call myself a Traditional American so that others can recognize me as a citizen who believes in America's founding principles, our Traditions as Americans. I have found that this label does not recall the media applied stigmas that have become attached to all of us "conservatives". Am I also a "Conservative" ? Of course I am and anyone who enters a conversation about the state of our Nation for more than one sentence knows that immediately. The neat thing is that they are still making conversation instead of drawing preconceived conclusions.

We are called to our duty as citizens to awaken our fellow Americans, enlist them in this fight, and raise the strongest voice heard in 233 years for the Real Americans to stand to the line and never yield our place until Victory is etched in the granite of the heart of OUR Nation once again. Fight hard, never falter. WE will NOT be RULED !!"

I know that I am a better patriot for having met Fred Houck, but after all, America produces millions of examples of this simple Idaho American, all across this great land. It is why Fred loved his fellow Americans, his country and the promise it holds for his children and grandchildren, to pursue their individual happiness. The world has never known real freedom, before America was born. 

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo, Houck family! Your husband, father, grandfather was a wonderful man, who fought hard to keep you free and proud! It was an honor to know him.

Please follow this link and sign Fred's quest book.

http://www.englishfuneralchapel.com/memsol.cgi?page=documents&user_id=1986228&MAIN_EVENT=MEMSOL&SUB_EVENT=SIGN_GUESTBOOK
 

  

YOU JUST CALL OUT MY NAME

The next line should be " I'll "GO" (come) running". That's because Kerry and Obama have blind eyes and deaf ears to the ongoing danger posed by ISIS and Muslim extremism throughout the world. With all deference to James Taylor and his roadie Secretary Kerry, the "Kumbaya" foreign policy is not only not working, it is a joke gone terrible cynical.

Regardless if you think the President's recalcitrance against calling out Muslim radical killers is out of stupidity or duplicity, the reality is that liberals can't stop playing the hippie dippy cards of 60's philosophy.

Winning them over with love or flower power would not work, has not worked and will never work. Yet liberals like John Kerry refuse to burn their tie-dye tee-shirts and grow up to the reality that evil answers only to complete destruction.

Two more years can reap havoc on America and Americans given the utter ignorance of these delusional liberals running our foreign policy. The zealot regimes throughout the world are not just growing in confidence that they have the upper hand, their free hands have been busy readying for a showdown while our government continues to capitulate away our strength. 

The liberal cancer of appeasement has metastasized for an inevitable world war III, that seems brewing in the very near horizon. It is what always happens when you let evil off the leash rather than beating it back relentlessly, as is required, to fight its perpetual reanimation. Good versus evil is a struggle never won with total annihilation by either side but rather a battle for making one side more powerful and the other more marginal. However to marginalize evil, you need to confront it with blunt words, backed by blunt force, not idle threats and scoffing rhetoric.

The Obama administration is trying to negotiate with evil (Iran), trying to convince evil to play nice, trying to convince a skeptical public that evil can be trusted to keep a treaty deal. What part of the lessons of life were liberals absent for in regards to the nature of evil and its many deeds? 

Evil lies. Evil deceives. Evil is pure selfishness. Evil smiles while it betrays. Evil is patient. Evil is savage. Evil is opportunistic. Evil is a temptress. Evil is never satiated. Evil is a master of disguise. Evil plays by its own rules. Evil preys on naivety. Evil is predictable, because it can never be trusted, ever.

It is bad enough that our current government lies to its people but it bodes far worse for our future that this current government is lying to themselves, thinking that evil can be coaxed into cage by mutual agreement. Indeed, once you negotiate with evil, then it wins.

Liberals have been making excuses for Muslim extremism, while criticizing our allies especially Israel for being skeptical with any deal making that involves trusting evil zealots. The Democrats recent shunning and classless bashing of Israel's leader Bibi Netanyahu, depicts a President and a Party far afield from the American values that defends liberty both home and abroad. 

President Obama, and Secretaries Kerry and Clinton are responsible for having toppled the Libyan government, that now is overrun by Al Qaida factions, that they claimed in 2012 were decimated.

They lied about Benghazi and have  negotiated with the Taliban, the Haqqani, and the Muslim Brotherhood. 

They supported a Muslim fundamentalist dictatorship in Egypt, Morsi, that was hostile to Israel. They supplied that anti-American government with money and weapons. Thankfully and fortunately Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian people without the administrations help. 

They stood by and watched as Syria descended into civil war refusing to arm or assists in any way Syrian freedom fighters, that then turned to terrorists for help against their fight with Assad. That turned out to be a most unholy union as it bred the rise of ISIS. 

They pulled out of Iraq, willfully leaving behind a weak power vacuum during a time of terror expansion that resulted in ISIS having the advantage to amass power and territory in its Judeo-Christian genocidal rampage.

Now they are attacking Israel's leader while defending Iran's Mullah government as honest negotiators. Yet, the Democrats and the liberal press wonders why Mayor Giuliani's comments regarding the President's dubious allegiances are resonating with the American people? 

"Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, all you have to do is call" out the actions that show the intent. The actions of this President and his Democrat Party are either dangerously naive or purposefully anti-American or as we are beginning to understand; both. For there are the dreamers who believe in a new unicorn and multicultural love-in with the world, and then there are the seditious puppeteers in the background pulling their strings. 

One thing is for certain, this administration is no friend of America and her traditional American values.       

TECHNOLOGY OR YOUR PRIVACY? HELL NO!

American rights have been assaulted once again by the discloser of data mining by the NSA with the White House arrogantly assuring us that their actions are legal and constitutional. Americans should have two reactions to this administration’s anti-American campaign to spy on citizens, one is Hell and the other is NO.

Is anyone else sick of our government’s complete underhanded secrecy on the one hand and abject ineptness on the other? The Russians handed the FBI the information on the Boston terrorist on a silver platter. They didn’t have spy for the information or eavesdrop on phone calls to find Tamerlan Tsarnaeva.  Worse, Tamerlan was not a United States citizen so the FBI can’t argue that they were helpless to charge him with a crime until he committed one. 

The FBI should have deported Tamerlan Tsarnaeva based on his extremists views and at the very least kept him under surveillance and let the local Boston police in on this potential terror suspect. However, the FBI did none of these things and Americans families suffered losing loved ones and limbs thanks to their PC correct; no jihad threat to see folks. 

It was this administration’s DHS that granted the Tsarnaeva family asylum. It was this administration that ignored the warnings from Russia. It was this administration’s FBI that failed to give the local Boston police the information that may have saved lives.

Oh but spying on Americans and data mining our phone records in the interest of finding terror plots is suppose to make us feel warm and fuzzy that our government is protecting America?

Which is it? Are we at war with jihad or is this a police action against terror? Obama wants it both ways. Which is it? Is this an unconstitutional breach of law enforcement spying on private citizen’s phone logs or a suspension of the Bill of Rights while we are at war with jihad? Either way Americans say “Hell No”.

If we lose our liberty because of terror threats than the Muslim terrorists have won already. The Patriot Act was not intended to give the federal government “Big Brother” omnipotent power. Now that it has been revealed that this is exactly how it is being abused by our government then it is time to seek repeal of the Patriot Act by both sides of the political aisle.

Some have suggested that if one doesn’t want the government to spy on you, then don’t access the internet, don’t use your cell phone and I guess we would also add, don’t make a salary (IRS target) and don’t see a doctor when you’re sick (Obamacare). NO, technological progress does not mean a waiver of your inherent right to privacy. Just because technology makes it easier for government to data mine information on citizens does not make it legal, constitutional or moral!

The Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is another example of the Political Correct numbness of officials in authority refuses to exercise their common sense and recognize a terror threat peculating in front of their noses. This Army psychiatrist was spewing praise for suicide bombers to American troops and the military brass looked the other way. He was communicating with Anwar al-Awlaki the American born terrorist Obama killed in Yemen without a trial that his administration claimed incited terrorism like the Fort Hood killer.

Which is it? Did Anwar al Awlaki incite Hasan to commit workplace violence or terrorism? Which is it? Did you drone kill a terrorists or a criminal? If you drone killed a terrorists that incited a terrorist then why is the Fort Hood massacre still called a workplace domestic incident and not a terror attack?

Which was it? Was Benghazi a protest caused by a video or a terror attack? Which truth was it? Did the President call it an act of terror immediately at the Rose Garden, or was the fog war making it unclear and the President, Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice were misled by bad intelligence?

This administration has been standing on its head while turning our country upside down against our Bill of Rights, traditional values and common sense. Stop allowing the government to pretend that invading our liberty is necessary to keep us safe.

Obama and the Democrats need to understand who the real enemy of America is,and it is not the Tea Party, conservatives, Libertarians, Patriots, Constitutional educators, traditional Americans, or JFK Democrats. It is not Christians, Jews or law abiding atheists. It is not soldiers returning from war, or legal immigrants assimilated and studying to be citizens or newly sworn citizens that respect America’s constitution. 

Stop pretending that it is politically incorrect to “profile” those traveling or immigrating to the United States from countries ripe with extremist Muslim radicals but okay to “target” God fearing Americans that reject your socialist, big government policies. 

Americans know who the enemy is. Americans know it is possible to thwart terrorism while keeping our Constitution respected and upheld. Americans know that yes we are in a war, against a caliphate, against Muslim religious fascism that will not rest until it dominates the world. 

Americans are not the enemy! Using the social media the internet or the cell phone is neither a crime nor a waiver of American’s right to not have our government seize our records, read our e-mails or spy on us.

If Obama’s government cannot use technology responsibly and within our constitutional rights then we should make our government communicate by carrier pigeons.

 

Americans have the right to use our modern world with all its modern conveyances and still be assured that our rights are not trampled by big government statist that spy, lie and say trust us. Hell NO!  

LIES ARE NEW NORMAL FOR DEMOCRATS

Hillary Clinton stated months ago that she accepts responsibility over the failure to protect our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. The problem with her seemly bold admission is that during the House and Senate hearings she admitted to absolutely no mistakes, errors or poor judgments.

In fact, she repeatedly danced between the factual truths and bold faced lies because most of our representatives chose to “smile for the camera” rather than hold her feet to the fire. For instance she repeated the lie (following Candy Crowley’s lead of CNN) that the President immediately called the attack at Benghazi an act of terrorism.

Even if you torture the words and contexts of Obama’s Rose Garden comments after the attack to make the case that he called it terrorism, you cannot dismiss the CBS interview with Steve Kroft in which the President punctuated his remarks by claiming it was too early to know.

Hillary claimed she knew it was a terrorist attack early on and not as a result of a protest over a video. Yet, no one asked Secretary Clinton why she reportedly told Charles Woods father of Tyrone victim of the Benghazi terrorist attack that “We’ll make sure the person that made that film is arrested and prosecuted.” 

In a mind bending acrobatic twist Hillary and this administration want to deflect answers to questions based on an on-going investigation by the FBI yet Ambassador Rice, the President and the Secretary of State were willing to blame a video with no evidence to support its involvement.

Hillary might it seem have had a moment of candor during what otherwise was a well scripted and prepared testimonial performance. 

“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?” Clinton asked the Republican Senator. “It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.”

However, her false outrage and impertinent response was arrogantly planned to intimidate the committee and is as old as the hills a tactic to deflect blame. The “How dare you” and the “does it matter who did it” let’s just move on and focus on fixing the problem is a well worn way by many to avoid accountability.

If there is an ever increasing theme in the Obama administration and the Democratic Party it is to never blame members or supporters for corruption or ineptness and only always blame either the opposition party (Bush) or everyone. 

We heard Democrats once again blame a lack funding for the lack of security at the Benghazi consulate. We heard Democrats blame conflicting intelligence reports from CIA, or the fog of war excuse. Finally we hear Hillary tell us “What difference at this point does it make?” 

Right Obama won the debates and the election through lies, cover-ups and subterfuge and he was just sworn in to the highest office in the world. So what difference does it make? 

Regardless of whether you voted for Obama, are a loyal Democrat or one of us (wretched nasty) conservative voters do you accept that your government lies to you? If it doesn’t bother you that they lie about the deaths of brave Americans then do you really believe your “check is” and will be in the mail?

So shouldn’t it matter even more to those that are big government statist’s that this benevolent government you trust to take care of you is truthful?  

Conservatives understand that government is corrupt and the bigger government becomes the bigger and less accountable allows that corruption to expand beyond constraints. Smaller government will still have a measure of corruption but at least it makes those responsible for the corruption less able to hide behind a mountainous bureaucratic process.

All Americans should refuse the new normal that allows the government to lie, shield the truth and mock the truth seeker. Honesty matters to Americans and we still teach our children (I hope) not to lie, but rather to stand up and admit mistake or wrong-doing and vow to improve.

I ask Hillary Clinton and all Democrats, when did we ever decide as a culture that there was no difference between lies and the truth? When did the new normal become “What difference does it make?” When did you as a voter and an American decide that your government lies so let’s just move on?

Because the next question would be move on to what; trusting liars?