Best advise I've heard in a while Scott. Kudos. larry
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, because you posted this openly, I'm going to respond openly.. > Before you do this, from one father to another: I know how much you love > your kids. I get where your coming from but... > Your first responsibility above and beyond anything else is your kids. > They need their father and you cant do that if your behind bars. > > You are a good man who served his country honorably and to the best of > his ability, the country has not returned the favor anywhere near as > well as it should have. > Yeah you have issues, we all do, some of us more than others. (I haven't > told you half of the drunken road stories, or the late 80's drunken > adventures at the old Hung Jury Pub in DC) Deal with those, get through > college, and onto the singularly most important job you could ever have: > Dad to two great boys. > > The VA will reconsider at some point, and restore your comptancy with > that your second ammendment rights as well. Now isn't the time to get > busted, it's the time to show the world what you can achieve. > > just $.02 from a friend.. > tell me to go fuck myself if you think I'm wrong :) > > > > On 7/27/2012 12:10 PM, LRS Scout wrote: >> So what options do we have? >> >> No one is truly excited by either of our presidential candidates, at least >> most of us. >> >> Obviously none of the third parties are a viable choice. Corruption, >> decimation of the constitution, increasing police militarization, increased >> use of intelligence and defense assets domestically, continued failure to >> redress grievances, increasing tax burden, the health care fiasco, it goes >> on and on. >> >> I just got a letter from the VA. I have been deemed incompetent (it >> contains nothing about that process other than the date I met with my >> shrink.) to handle my own financial affairs. This doesn't really bother >> me, I'm starting college in a week, the majority of my bills are >> recurring, I'll just assign my dad as fiduciary and set up a debit card. >> I'm starting school next week and have GI Bill money coming too, and that >> comes straight to me. The reason for this is likely because I smoke >> cannabis, and rather than lie to my docs I tell the truth and make no >> apologies for doing it. It is a plant, it is not harmful and it gives me >> some small comfort. I am a free person, I understand that there are laws >> against it where I live and federally, I know there are potential >> consequences for this decision. However, I can deal with this. I know I >> have some problems, anger stuff, social anxiety, sleep shit, dwelling in >> the past; guilt, regrets, blah blah blah; but come on. All I really do is >> sit at home, surf the web, smoke blunts and cook and clean the house. I'm >> not bothering anyone. I'm not violent or suicidal. Whatever, anyway this >> I can deal with and almost understand, I can be pretty dumb with my money. >> >> About half way down the page it says: >> >> "The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act prohibits you from purchasing, >> possessing, receiving or transporting a firearm or ammunition based upon >> our determination that you are incompetent to handle your VA funds." >> >> Honestly, I have been on quite a roller coaster since I read it several >> days ago. Anger, red seething rage, ÌÏËÙÍ ËÁÂÅ. Regret and self loathing >> about what I must be if they think they need to take these steps. Disgust, >> at the system that thinks they can tell me something like this and that I >> will sit and take it, fear of the future and what it holds for me, passion >> during the times I've been writing my initial diatribes to my friends and >> some closed social media. >> >> Finally after the heat and the sweat it's cold determination. No more. I >> am a free man. I have been convicted of no crime, had no judge declare me >> unfit nor guilty of any crime. No jury of my peers has decided I was unfit >> for this, the most basic or rights, that of self defense. >> >> I am a veteran, a former paratrooper and LRS SSO. I have 3 honorable >> discharges. I wasn't a great soldier. Average at best, and a violent >> drunken lout at my worst, but I did what needed doing. >> >> I'm a father, I have two boys I love more than life itself. With them in >> mind I have made the following decision. >> >> I will be attempting to buy a new pistol sometime after the first. I'm >> announcing this in hopes that I will be arrested and prosecuted for this so >> called crime. >> >> My Name is Timothy Heald and I live at 4400 Logwood Lane Columbus, OH >> 43228. My primary email address is [email protected]. I have a >> blog at http://www.intolerable-acts.org/. I welcome open discourse on this >> subject. I know my actions may not be understood by many. I get it though >> and that is all that matters. Each of us has to decide for ourselves when >> we must stand for something as a free people. We all are pretty much >> agreed, something is wrong and needs to be changed. We primarily disagree >> on how to implement that change. Left right, it doesn't matter. Democrat >> or Republican. They will continue to abuse us in order to line their >> pockets, and those of their sponsors. >> >> Please share this. I will be posting these words on all of the social >> media I have, in all my groups and forums. Like them, share them and >> retweet them. Email them to your kids. Someone send it to the cops, the >> FBI, the BATF. Maybe I will. >> >> Can one man change things? Can we roll back without violence? >> >> Let's find out. >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The current DOJ will more than likely be labelled the most corrupt ever. >>> An 'honor' it truly deservers. >>> >>> Just as a refresher, after losing his election for governor of NJ to Chris >>> Christie (How bad do you have to be to lose to a Republican in NJ?), Jon >>> Corzine became the chairman and CEO of MF Global. In a little over a year, >>> under Corzine's leadership, IMF managed to make 1.6 billion dollars of >>> clients' money disappear. It seems that MF was illegally taking customers' >>> funds to pay off debt it acquired on bad investments. When MF eventually >>> went bankrupt, it was one of the ten largest bankruptcies in US history. >>> >>> At this time, Corzine is still sitting pretty since the DOJ is giving him a >>> free pass. In fact, no one has been indicted for anything yet. >>> >>> Some interesting coincidences on why this might be the case: >>> >>> * Before bankruptcy, MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric >>> Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer's former law firm, >>> Covington & Burling. >>> >>> * MF Global's retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & >>> Foerester-the law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came >>> to DOJ. >>> >>> * The trustee overseeing MF Global's bankruptcy is former FBI Director >>> Louis Freeh. At one time, Eric Holder worked for Freeh. >>> >>> * Corzine was an Obama campaign bundler. In fact, he was still bundling in >>> April of 2012, almost half of a year after the collapse of MF Global. So, >>> while still being "investigated" for his role in the financial fiasco, >>> Corzine was making political contributions to administration responsible >>> for the investigation. >>> >>> * Four high level officials at the DOJ were bundlers for Obama: Eric >>> Holder, Thomas Perrelli, Karol Mason, and Tony West. >>> >>> Calls for a special counsel to investigate are growing due to all of the >>> ties between the DOJ, Corzine, and the Obama Administration. >>> >>> J >>> >>> - >>> >>> Literally The First Guy I Called Was Jon Corzine. Not A Joke. Not A Joke. >>> Because First Of All, He's The Smartest Guy I Know In Terms Of The Economy >>> And On Finance. - Joe Biden >>> >>> It's not coincidental that that's what the Recovery Act is. Jon Corzine >>> helped craft the Recovery Act. It's not coincidental that the things he did >>> here turned out to be the exact same things the recovery act has because >>> way back in the transition period before we were sworn in, when Barack >>> Obama and I were literally sitting at a desk in a high rise in Chicago >>> beginning to plan how we would try to get this economy out of a ditch, >>> literally the first guy I called was Jon Corzine. Not a joke. Not a joke. >>> Because first of all, he's the smartest guy I know in terms of the economy >>> and on finance - Jo >>> >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353146 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
