WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 44
by Jim Clonts, 2010

03/09/2010

Over the last few weeks the Republican Party has shown me on two separate occasions they simply are not getting the message from the American People. I think the Democrats are getting the message. They just don't care what the Proles have to say. The Republicans seem poised to take advantage of this fact in November, however, I'm not sure they understand why they are going to be handed the elections. If Republicans win in November it will be simply because they are not Democrats, just as Obama was elected because he wasn't Bush. That may get you the election, but it won't fix the country or keep you in power. I don't think they understand this.

Every Republican celebrated the election of Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Imagine---a Republican elected to Kennedy's seat! While Republicans were reveling in that victory, Brown was busy showing us he really doesn't understand the nature of his victory. Within 72 hours of being sworn in, he voted for a Democrat-sponsored $15 billion jobs bill. He said the bill was not perfect, but it was only $15 billion and he hoped it would show he will be bipartisan. In other words---he attempted to buy some goodwill from the Democrats for $15 billion. Thanks, Scott. My kids are happy to pay for that goodwill.

The second sign Republicans just don't get it concerns Senator Jim Bunning. Bunning voted to block a bill that extended unemployment compensation up to 99 weeks. Bunning was crucified by the Media for being calloused and cold-hearted toward the unemployed. On the floor of the Senate, Bunning said he was not opposed to the bill, just the way it was going to be financed. Two weeks ago President Obama signed a bill into law called PAYGO, the Pay as you Go bill. This Democrat-sponsored bill, which is now law, says any new spending bill must be paid for either by cuts elsewhere in the budget or tax increases. Obama lauded this bill when he signed it. Two weeks later the Democrats have thrown PAYGO on the ash heap of legislative history. Bunning argued that only 30% of the $862 billion dollar stimulus bill has been spent to date. Surely, we could fit that $15 billion into the stimulus bill payouts. Democrats ignored the request and attacked him for being an obstructionist. That is standard procedure for Democrats and I'd expect no less. My problem was with the Republicans. Just where the hell were they? They sat in silence, while Bunning made the case the American People have been making for the last year. Not one came to his defense---in this case to the defense of the American People. A few even attacked him. We don't need these kinds of Republicans.

Friends, the election in November must be about just what Obama said the last election was about. The new Congress must transform this Government back into the Republic Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson and Paine envisioned. There can be no room for bipartisanship if it means keeping us on the path to disaster. All bipartisanship means is that both parties will work together to destroy this country. The new Congress is going to have to be real leaders, not panderers to the Media, special interests, and especially the opposition party. They are going to have to prescribe a bitter pill and convince us to ride out the fever because it will eventually result in a healthy country once again. The actions of Scott Brown and the entire elected Republican body, save Senator Jim Bunning, are not a good sign.

Further Thought: If the Democrats are willing to ignore their own two-week old law, how can we trust them to respect and abide by any law they pass---especially one passed by reconciliation?

Quote of the Week:

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

-Benjamin Franklin

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