OKINAWA---THE INVASION

ON APRIL 1st, 1945 A COMBINED ARMY AND MARINE FORCE STORMED THE BEACH ON OKINAWA, THE FIRST PIECE OF JAPANS HOMELAND, IN WHAT WAS TO BECOME ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES OF THE WAR.  IT WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST OPERATIONS IN THE PACIFIC WAR WITH SOME 1500 SHIPS AND 1000 CARRIER AIRCRAFT INVOLVED. 130,000 JAPANESE DEFENDED AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS AND SUFFERED 124,735 KILLED, WOUNDED AND CAPTURED.
THE SHIPS FACED A FLURRY OF KAMAKAZI SUICIDE PLANES IN THEIR FANATIC DEFENSE.
THREE MONTHS LATER THE ISLAND WAS SECURELY IN ALLIED HANDS.
THE ALLIED FORCES SUFFERED 82,600 CASUALTIES.......Medicineman!

PLAY BALL!

CAESAR FIDDLED WHILE ROME BURNED.  OBAMA TOOK IN A BASEBALL GAME AND SMOOZED WITH CASTRO AND THE BOYS.  BRUSSELS GOT HAMMERED BY MUSLIMS WHO KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE AND TERRIFIED THE REST.  YOU WILL NOTICE THAT I DID NOT SAY "RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS".
AMERICANS HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT WE CANNOT BE IMPOLITE TO THOSE WHO KILL US BECAUSE IT MAY HURT THEIR FEELINGS AND THEY WILL FEEL BAD.  AND BESIDES, NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE BAD PEOPLE.  DID I SAY THEY WERE?  NO, BUT CALL A SPADE A SPADE.  EVERY TERRORIST ATTACK IN THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT BY MUSLIMS.  WHEN THEY DO THESE THINGS THEY DO NOT DESERVE MY POLITE ATTITUDE!..Medicineman!

A LITTLE KNOWN STORY!

IN THIS MODERN AGE OF INSTANT GRATIFICATION AND INFORMATION MANY IMPORTANT STORIES GET LEFT OUT.  AND TO OUR EVERLASTING SHAME OUR YOUNG NEVER LEARN SOME OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT PAST.
AS AN EXAMPLE:  LITTLE IS KNOWN OR TOLD TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR (POLICE ACTION ACCORDING TO TRUMAN) SO READ ON AND LEARN.
IN THAT THREE YEAR CONFLICT SOME 35,000 AMERICANS DIED FIGHTING COMMUNISTS IN THAT FAR OFF LAND.
THE WAR RAGED ON WHILE FOES ARGUED CEASE FIRE.
IN ONE SUCH FIGHT WAS A COMPANY OF INFANTRY FROM THE 7TH DIVISION LED BY LT. JOE CLEMONS.  IN APRIL, 1953 THEY WERE TASKED WITH THE JOB TO DISLODGE A SUPERIOR FORCE OF CHINESE FROM A HILL CALLED "PORK CHOP HILL" AND HOLD IT.  THEY TOOK THE HILL WHILE LOSING 110 OF THEIR COMPANY STRENGTH OF 135.  THEN THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE REINFORCED.  THAT ORDER WAS LATER RESCINDED.  THE HILL WAS OF LITTLE VALUE EXCEPT AS A BARGAINING  CHIP AT THE PEACE TABLE.  THE ARMISTICE CAME THREE MONTHS LATER ON JULY 27, 1953.......Medicineman!

EASY COME-EASY GO!

WE ALL KNOW THAT THE EASIEST MONEY TO SPEND IS SOMEONE ELSE'S! 
ACCORDING TO JUDICIAL WATCH , OBAMA VACATION COSTS HAVE NOW EXCEEDED  $70 MILLION DOLLARS.....$70,880,035.78. 
JUST ONE OF OBAMA'S LUXURY VACATIONS, THE 2013 TRIP TO HAWAII, HAS NOW BEEN TALLIED AT $8,098,060.  THE SECRET SERVICE EXPENSES ALONE TOTALED $317,000.  AIR FORCE ONE FLIGHT EXPENSES ALONE WERE $7,781,361.3O (36.9 HOURS AT $210,877 PER HOUR).
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE MOST GENEROUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD IN GIVING TO CHARITIES, BUT I FEEL CERTAIN THAT WE CANNOT COUNT THE OBAMA CROWD AS "CHARITABLE" GIVING!  JUST THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.......Medicineman!

WELL HUSH MY MOUTH!

I JUST READ WHERE THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HAS TOLD STUDENTS TO STOP USING THE PHRASE,"ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT."  INSTEAD STUDENTS SHOULD USE THE TERM "UNDOCUMENTED CITIZENS" TO AVOID HURTING SOME FEELINGS.  EGAD!  HOW SENSITIVE CAN YOU BE?
WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND IN UNIVERSITY AND THEN THE US NAVY ONE TOOK PRIDE IN BEING WHAT HE WAS.  IT WAS OK TO BE A "MICK" OR A "WOP" FROM NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY, OR EVEN A "CLOD HOPPER" IF YOU WERE FROM INDIANA.  OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS WERE "MACKEREL SNAPPERS" AND OUR INDIAN FRIENDS WERE CALLED "TONTO."  "SPIK" WAS RESERVED FOR OUR LATIN FRIENDS AND AT LEAST ONE OF MY BLACK FRIENDS WE CALLED "HERSHEY."  HERSHEY DIED IN KOREA!
WHY DO WE HAVE TO COMPLICATE OUR LIVES WITH A BUNCH OF SILLY IDEAS ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG AMONG FRIENDS?........Medicineman! 

TO SPEAK OR NOT?

TODAY IN CHICAGO THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS TRAMPLED IN THE STREETS.  WHY?  TRUMP HAD BEEN INVITED TO SPEAK AT A RALLY ON UNIVERSITY PROPERTY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
SOME WILL SAY "HOORAH FOR THE MOB" BECAUSE TRUMP CANCELED THE RALLY FEARING VIOLENCE.  THERE SHOULD BE SHAME AND TEARS INSTEAD.
MANY OF US STILL REMEMBER THE DEMOCRAT CONVENTION IN 1968 WHEN POLICE WERE ASSAULTED AND OVERWHELMED AND BEATEN BY THE CHICAGO CROWD. 
IT IS A VERY SAD DAY FOR OUR COUNTRY WHEN THE VOICE OF DESCENT IS SILENCED.......MEDICINEMAN!

THE WELFARE STATE MADNESS!

Let me make it clear at the onset.  The term,"welfare state" is defined by the Webster dictionary as "a social system based on the assumption by a political state of primary responsibility for the individual and social welfare of its citizens."  The term does not include Social Security, Veterans Benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers compensation.  These are consider earned benefits.  They are not "means-tested."
According to Robert Rector of Heritage Foundation there are "69 federal programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training, and targeted education aid to poor and low-income Americans."  These fall into 9 broad categories: 1)-Food aid, 2) Housing Assistance, 3) Medical assistance, 4) Social Services, 5) Educational Assistance, 6) Direct Cash Assistance, 7) Energy & Utility Assistance, 8) Child Care, 9) Child Development Programs.
There are about 90 million full-time workers today plus some 16 million Government workers.  Americans on welfare total 110 million.  The 20 years from 1989 to 2008 total means-tested spending increased 292 percent!
In the 50 years since President Johnson's "War on poverty" we have spent over 22 TRILLION dollars on anti-poverty programs.  More money then the country has spent on all our wars since the Revolution!  MADNESS--I SAY AGAIN-MADNESS! .........Medicineman!