THE INSPECTOR GENERAL SYSTEM IS BROKEN

As an Air National Guard Group Commander and Federal Director I told a Major General the truth when he questioned me. I believe others were also honest. Sometime later someone filed an anonymous IG complaint. Because a Major General was involved, the IG Investigator was a high ranking Senior Executive Service Civilian. I have known dozens of IG’s, she is the Only honest one I ever knew. I also know she was pressured not to substantiate the reprisal charges. Eventually a Department of Defense report stated that I made protected disclosures to the Major General and suffered reprisals as a result.

After that report came out the real reprisals began. I received lowered performance reports and letters of reprimand. All because I would not lie. After the reprisals got worse I just took it with a smile.

Later in my career a complaint was filed against one of my men alleging sexual harassment. A female Lieutenant Colonel was assigned to investigate. I am reasonably sure he was guilty. When the IG briefed me on her findings she told me she could not substantiate the charges and quipped, “That’s what you wanted to hear isn’t it?” I told her I wanted to hear the truth.

Eventually I was promoted to Full Colonel and GM-14 anyway. The likelihood of a Whistleblower being promoted is on the order of winning the lottery. Just before I retired I was offered a Brigadier General position. I declined.

The IG System itself is Pure Fraud and a major reason Fraud, Waste and Abuse are legendary in the government and military. The IG works for the agency and almost NEVER substantiates fraud, waste & abuse if it reflects badly on the agency.

The Government Accountability Office and Congressman Darrell Issa’s Government Oversight Committee are the ONLY trustworthy Fraud, Waste & Abuse fighters. Please support them.

ARE THE GOATS SMARTER THAN THE SHEEP?

ARE THE GOATS SMARTER THAN THE SHEEP?
The Press has been silent on Venezuela during the Obama Presidency. Chavez, the darling of the Liberals, visited Iran in 2007 and said, “We are willing to confront U.S. imperialism in any territory and to defeat it.”

Diplomacy is not rocket science but the United States has had trouble separating the sheep from the goats under the Clinton and Kerry run Department of State. I will sort it out for you. Here are the goats: Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Cuba, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Libya. There are many other willing confederates.

To the mission of confronting U.S. Imperialism, Iran and Venezuela put their money where their mouths are by ponying up two billion dollars in a special alliance fund.

When any of these countries does anything, a real Diplomat would understand that it must be viewed in the context of all the goats. An example is the current sabre rattling in North Korea. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has scientists in Iran helping with their nuclear weapons program even as I write this blog. The DPRK already has nuclear weapons and has had them for a long time. Since they haven’t blown themselves to smithereens it is safe to assume they have a degree of expertise in nukes. Since they have the technology is it possible that Iran does not? Again, not rocket science.

We know there are Iranians already in the U.S. through the Mexico – Arizona Freeway. Iranian books have been found discarded in the Arizona desert. The Federal Government handcuffed Sheriff Arpaio giving them a clear path.

We also know that Russia cannot account for their suitcase nukes and many other scary weapons. Added to this nightmare are the 20,000 missing surface to air missiles in Libya, some of which found their way to Gaza. Are you starting to get the picture or are you too focused on homosexual marriage and the Dream Act?

The goats have a name for us lambs, they call us the Big Satan. They call God’s Chosen People and our best ally, Little Satan. The United States is the only reason the goats have not already tried to destroy Israel. The Dream Act for the goats is the destruction of both the Big and Little Satans. Those of us who pray and read our Bibles know that the goats will come against Israel at a time known only to God. God has not told us the EXACT time but He has given us the signs of the time that it will occur. The 38th Chapter of Ezekiel is a good place to start.

So here we set, while the TSA frisks grandmothers in wheelchairs and little girls, our country is in GRAVE danger. Our 92,000 miles of coastline and thousands of miles of border are NOT SECURE. While we send our Naval and Air Forces to Korea, Venezuela can proliferate nukes and surface to air missiles to the United States. The only delivery method they need is a boat and the Iranians already here to meet the boat.

Are the goats smarter than Obama, Kerry, Hagel and the rest?

A Plan for Arkansas Prosperity

Even though Texas has NO INCOME TAX, all other taxes are much lower than ARKANSAS taxes on a per capita basis. We now have an Arkansas Legislature that is seeing the light. Texas revenue is growing because the WORLD is beating a path to their door.

An Arkansas competitive tax plan won’t happen overnight BUT IT CAN HAPPEN! The cornerstone is elimination of personal income tax. Not eliminate income tax and keep the thousands of unionized highly paid state employees to do nothing. I know that government employees are special and heaven forbid we fire ONE. When the citizens voted to legalize Charity Bingo, the government taxed it to death. The state hired 7 bingo police to harass the little old ladies at church bingo games and World War II Veterans in Veteran’s Posts until they killed Charity Bingo. The state employees gobbled up the paltry income charities once made from bingo. Now that bingo is all but dead and some posts had to close, we still have the state employees.

I am advocating that we have a hiring freeze and mandatory retirement to bring the size of Arkansas government back down to the pre Mike Huckabee levels. Governor Huckabee increased state employees by 20%. That trend continues. That would mean we need thousands of fewer vehicles and fewer palatial buildings.

If we can get our state trimmed down and our taxes in order, Arkansas will flourish. Walmart and other major Arkansas companies won’t have to incorporate in Delaware. Billionaires can return from Texas and Wyoming. We won’t have to bribe companies to locate here. Real jobs will be in abundance and our residents can buy nice homes, nice automobiles, nice guns and good hunting dogs. A good way to start is by appointing an ad hoc Joint Competitive Tax Committee to recommend a comprehensive plan to the next Legislature. Members must be people with proven experience streamlining and running businesses or organizations. They can consult people like David Glass who was successful at Walmart and with the Kansas City Royals. We can do it. Arkansas deserves it!

Government Verses the Private Sector

Managers In the private sector get rid of employees who won’t work, in the government they just hire more workers. If taxpayers (the 47%) knew how little work was getting done in those Marble Buildings, THEY WOULD REVOLT!

Most government employees belong to government unions. The unions make sure they don’t work too hard, working conditions are luxurious and there is no child labor sweatshops. Before Jimmy Carter opened the door to government unions, I don’t remember any sweatshops or overworked government employees?

Private sector unions have dramatically declined during the past decade but government unions have taken up the slack of providing funds for the Democrat Machine. Government managers don’t object to unions since what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Government employees negotiate with themselves for time off to go for a walk and fitness facilities to take a steam-bath, all on the taxpayer’s dime.

The day government unions are outlawed again, Veteran’s Claims will be processed faster, Homeland Security will become more efficient, Airport Security will become better, The CIA, NSA and the Department of Defense will start doing their jobs instead of playing silly Union-Management games. Best of all, government will take steps toward becoming affordable and sustainable.

I welcome your comments, pro and con.

Do You Understand the Black Vote?

I am a Christian and believe all men are created equal. I have African American friends, I have worked for African Americans, hired African Americans and fought for African Americans. One time a colleague said Colonel McVay hires blacks whether they’re qualified or not. He was talking about a woman I hired from the Justice Department as my Executive Assistant. She had a Masters Degree and was working on a PhD. Someone reported his remark and an IG Investigation was conducted with great fanfare. In the end, the incident was covered up as usual. The government will do anything to avoid bad publicity, anything! There is no doubt that racism still exists in America and even in the government and military.

My great-great-grandfather Joseph P. McVay lived just north of the Tennessee – Mississippi Border when the Battle of Shiloh took place a few miles away. A short time later he and his oldest son enlisted in the Union Army at Bethel, Tennessee. Private McVay was captured later and imprisoned at Andersonville for almost the entire time the prison was open. He only survived because he was a big strong man used to working timber and farming. He was released a broken man. He settled in Oxford, Arkansas about 1870. If he were alive today he would not understand how his service to free the slaves is completely and totally unappreciated by African Americans. How they have embraced the party of their captors and the KKK. Quite frankly, it puzzles me as well.

The first Republican Governor of Arkansas has been called a Carpet Bagger in Arkansas History Books for over a hundred years. Colonel Powell Clayton was ordered to Arkansas as a Regiment Commander during the Civil War. He ended up marrying an Arkansas woman and buying an Arkansas farm after the war. He was approached by Democrats and Republicans to run for Governor. He just wanted to farm with his two twin brothers. On a steamboat ride to Memphis another farmer shared the plan to win with the pen what was lost with the sword. To pretend to be reconstructed but to keep African Americans subjugated and subservient. The farmer assumed Clayton was of the same mind. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Still, Clayton wanted to stay out of politics and just be a farmer until he realized a Union supporter could not live peacefully in Arkansas. Violence and murder was rampant. Eventually, after neighbors burned his barn, Clayton ran and became the first Republican Governor of Arkansas. He had to declare Martial Law to stop the violence. A few years later the Democrats reestablished their control and their segregation agenda. The Democrat Anti-Black Policy was so ingrained and supported that Governor Orval Faubus himself blocked integration of Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. In addition to Faubus, other prominent Arkansas Democrats who were segregationists included Governor Francis Cherry, Senators William Fulbright and John McClellan, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice James Johnson and Congressman Dale Alford. Integration of Arkansas schools occurred for one reason and one reason only, we had a Republican President of the United States who stood up for the Constitution and for Civil Rights. You might not think that the actions President Eisenhower took were courageous, think again. In 1958 the Gallup Poll listed Orval Faubus as one of the Ten Most Admired Men in the World although Eisenhower held the first position on that poll for ten years.

Martin Luther King was a Republican and I doubt that any African American voted Democratic during that era. What changed all that? I believe it was Lyndon Baines Johnson. Here are two quotes widely attributed to LBJ that he would not have said on TV:

“I’ll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One -
“These N*****s, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”—LBJ

That little something became known as THE GREAT SOCIETY. The last year President Johnson served the deficit was the highest since WWII. His War on Poverty has had no measurable effect on poverty in the United States during the last 40 years. Unemployment rates are highest among Blacks and Latinos under the Obama Administration. The picture is much worse in inner cities among Black Youths.

There are many job killers invented by government such as an unrealistic minimum wage. The idea that the minimum wage must be enough to live on is flawed. Teenagers living at home need supplementary spending money. Senior Citizens also need to supplement their retirement incomes. Liberals see the minimum wage as a boon for people when it is a curse. If the minimum wage had been in effect when I was a kid, I might have never been able to climb out of poverty. I think God that my family living in a one room house in North Arkansas never received a dime’s worth of welfare. I’m glad I didn’t have the government on my back. I remain shocked that African Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. In fact, I can’t understand why anyone who loves America would vote Democratic?

I Cannot Deny Biblical Prophecy

I can remember reading the Bible as a young man and questioning what I was reading. Ezekiel talked about the countries that would come against Israel in the latter days. Israel did not even exist for 1900 years. Ezekiel mentions Libya, Ethiopia and Persia. That really struck me that the Bible would mention these countries as enemies. We had an Air Force Base in Libya. Persia, or Iran was flying US F-15 Eagles and we were training their pilots. The Shah was our best ally. In fact, when I went to Air Force Pilot Training, one of my friends was Parvis, an Iranian pilot. Haile Selassie was the leader of Ethiopia and certainly one of our friends. In the twinkling of an eye, those three countries became our mortal enemies. In 1974, Haile Selassie’s government was overthrown by a pro-Soviet Marxist-Leninist military junta which turned Ethiopia into a Communist state. Even before that, Gaddafi closed American and British bases in Libya and openly opposed the US. The Iranian Revolution which began in 1978, transformed Iran from a monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran was our friend no more. Since these events happened before my eyes I have been more careful in my study of Holy Scriptures. I believe we are clearly living in the End Times when men call good evil and evil good. Since there are more Jews in America than in Israel, when the Bible speaks of Israel it could be including the United States?

Jesus quoted Daniel during His Ministry, that lends him great credibility in my book. Daniel wrote, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Imagine that. During the time of Daniel some people never ventured outside their own village. I flew over villages in Turkey where there was not a single vehicle. People still ride donkeys even today. Yet, people travel routinely between New York and Los Angeles almost like commuting to work. Jetting to and fro on the scale we see now would be unimaginable 2700 years ago.

Jesus was asked about the signs of the end of time and He answered, “Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”

I have included a chart of killer quakes, do you have eyes to see?

Are You Motivated to Succeed, a Personal Story?

In 1961 my high school classmate entered West Point and I enlisted in the Air Force. There was no fanfare about my enlistment, I served my four years as an Intelligence Analyst. After 9 months training at Goodfellow AFB I was assigned to the Northern Tip of Japan at Wakkanai for a 15 month tour. After that I worked at the National Security Agency until I received an early release to attend college. I had three nominations to the Air Force Academy but an old injury put me in an Air Force hospital instead of the Academy. After 18 days and a surgery I was fixed but too late to enter the Academy. The next year I was too old.

While in the Air Force I attended night school at the University of Maryland and tested out of all Freshman Courses. I also volunteered as an announcer on the Far East Network and played basketball on an undefeated team. I traveled and enjoyed myself but I was serious about improving myself. While others were just hanging out, I managed to obtain 90 semester hours of college credit. After a semester on the outside I was awarded an AA Degree. That was enough to be considered for pilot training in the Air National Guard. With a 95 on the pilot aptitude test and a private pilot’s license I managed to be accepted.

While attending undergraduate pilot training at Vance AFB I finished Squadron Officer School by correspondence. Just before graduation I was offered my choice of assignments if I would volunteer for 24 months active duty. Because I knew I would be flying fighters at my Guard Unit I never worried about class standing. I finished 6th out of 74 anyway. I volunteered and flew the C-141 Starlifter. As far as I can tell, I upgraded to Global Qualified Aircraft Commander in record time with only 1,200 hours of flying time. Normally 2,000 hours would be required. In order to upgrade I had to have recommendations from two Flight Examiners and my Squadron Commander. After a check ride which included a five day mission to Vietnam, I was required to fly with an Aircraft Commander Copilot for 100 hours. Because of my performance on the check ride that requirement was waived. My first trip as an Aircraft Commander was with a Second Lieutenant Copilot who was rated as a Second Pilot, I didn’t even have a First Pilot. I was the only First Lieutenant Aircraft Commander in my Wing and the only known First Lieutenant qualified to fly Air Evacuation Missions which I flew many times.

After my 24 months I returned to the Air National Guard and learned I was selected to be the first pilot checked out in the F-101 Voodoo which was scheduled to be assigned in a year. I attended a nine month checkout at Little Rock AFB and became the first Combat Ready F-101 pilot in my unit. While still a First Lieutenant I upgraded to Flight Instructor in the 101, the only person of that rank to ever become a F-101 instructor.

Then I was promoted to Captain in minimum time. As a Captain I finished both Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College. I was working for the government as a GS-13, otherwise I would not have been allowed to take the War College. I was also selected to be a Flight Commander, the only Captain to serve as Flight Commander in the unit or probably anyplace else. I attended training at the University of Southern California, Arizona State University and night school at Southeastern Oklahoma State University where I received a BS in Professional Aviation in 1980.

I was promoted to Major and Lieutenant Colonel before my West Point graduate high school classmate. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. After I was promoted to Full Colonel I was the first and only Air National Guard Colonel selected to command the premier joint force Provisional Wing, “Cope Thunder” now “Red Flag Alaska”. With six billion dollars worth of Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Canadian Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard assets in today’s dollars. After I retired, a group of Legislators urged me to run for Governor. I refused but eventually agreed knowing nobody was going to beat the incumbent. Some of my ideas resonated with the people and eventually became law.

I am posting this to make the point that should you play the hand you are dealt. I grew up in a one room house. Nobody pushed me to excel. I wanted a better life for myself and my family. The harder you work, the luckier you get. If you don’t have a rich uncle it does not mean you can’t make something out of yourself. My daughter is a Chemical Engineer, a General Surgeon and a Pediatric Surgeon. I didn’t have to push her, it was her idea. She told me she would study Engineering so she would be an Engineer if she didn’t get into Medical School. My motto is not lean forward, it is Reach for the Stars.

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Unions are What they are and that’s Bad

Unions had Hostess over a barrel in so many ways. Bread and snack cakes could not be delivered in the same truck. Different people had to unload and stock bread and snack cakes. Drivers were not permitted to load or unload.

Some of the same kinds of things that quickly doomed the post office after Jimmy Carter permitted government unions. I lost customers years ago because they had to drive 30 miles to the post office to pay postage due on packages I sent after I weighed them and the local post office weighed them. When the post office went so called private and unionized, the Postmaster General went from $100,000 a year to $800,000. Workers had the same options for health insurance as federal employees but they paid much less and the post office paid more of the costs.

UNIONS ARE A BLACK HOLE OF INEFFICIENCY. Especially government unions, do you ever remember government employees being overworked in sweatshops or enduring poor working conditions? Has there been a child labor problem?

We need more like Governor Scott Walker who released the stranglehold unions had on Wisconsin. There schools were required to buy insurance from union companies at three times the going rate.

Why does President Obama love unions so much? Because they provided half a billion dollars and half a million workers for his campaign. What will be the pay back? Forcing unions on companies and states and doing away with RIGHT TO WORK.

SOLVING THE ARKANSAS EDUCATION PUZZLE

Arkansas Governor Beebe, in political ads with great fanfare says the state is 5th in Education. I guess other states are flocking to Arkansas to learn how we did it, right? Not exactly. The study Beebe is so excited about is the Education Week Quality Counts 2011 survey, which ranked Arkansas #5 based on education policies. It reminds me of the Dog Food Company meeting. The boss asked who had the best sales staff, “We do” was the reply. Who has the best company, “we do, we do” who has the best distribution, “we do”. Even so our sales are down, what’s the problem? A man called out, “The dang dogs won’t eat it!”

Even the questionable Quality Counts study gave the state low marks in two areas where the state has long struggled to advance: Student achievement and the chance for a successful career with an Arkansas education, areas where high marks really mean something!

There are a lot of organizations that rank education performance. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) gave Arkansas a C in Education Policy along with 8 other states. There were 30 states with grades higher than C. In performance Arkansas ranks 45th, thank you Mississippi and West Virginia! I believe the ALEC study provides a more comprehensive look at how state education performs based on student scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).

ALEC researchers are heavy into various school reform measures, with high praise for different education reform programs in disparate states:

“The past two years, however, have been crucial in demonstrating that reform is not only necessary but in fact achievable. In the past, governors gave lip service to education reform but tended to simply increase spending and kick the can down the road. The 2010–2011 period witnessed something entirely different: lawmakers taking on the reactionary education establishment directly, and defeating them repeatedly. States having passed reforms must move vigorously to implementation, given the huge difference between changing law and changing policy and opportunities for subversion. Reformers in other states should carefully study the comprehensive approaches of Florida and Indiana lawmakers. Dramatic improvement results from broad, rather than incremental, reform.”

Of course the wild eyed Arkansas liberals are trying to discredit the ALEC. Dan Greenberg wrote an insightful article for THE ARKANSAS PROJECT, “Confessions of an ALEC Conspirator,” which scoffs at all the paranoid liberal handwringing about the organization with a calm look at the facts about the role ALEC plays in policymaking. Liberals don’t like facts.

http://www.thearkansasproject.com/confessions-of-an-alec-conspirator/

HEART TO HEART TALK ABOUT U.S. SECURITY

I would like to have a heart to heart talk with you about the security of the United States. You have seen our citizens killed on our soil and abroad. You see intrusive security measures at airports and federal buildings. You are aware of intelligence organizations including the National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence to mention a few. Billions of dollars are spent on security, yet we are anything but secure.

I once had a Security Squadron under my command with Air Base Security Forces, Security Police and Law Enforcement personnel. Fifty years ago I was an Intelligence Analyst at NSA but my training was not really in security. I had something that was lacking in my Air Base Security Squadron Commander, I had common sense. We had an exercise and my Squadron Commander concentrated his forces on the main gate. I called him aside and asked him if we were prepared for the enemy to penetrate through the ditch at the back of the base. You can see the same mentality today with Airport Security, Federal Building Security and so forth. There are lots of ways to get into a Federal Building besides the front door. A lot of people have access to Airliners who never go through the TSA. When we concentrate our security at airports and Federal Buildings, what about Bus Stations, Train Stations, Schools, Hospitals, fuel storage and Sports Arenas?

The major failing of US security is the failure to protect our borders and coastline. The Commandant of the Coast Guard once told me that if they tripled the size of his organization they still could not protect our 92,000 miles of coastline. The terrorists are already here and they are here in force. The paths leading from the Mexican Border are many and broad. Along those pathways discarded Iranian books have been found. I estimate that at least 30,000 illegal aliens are in the US from Yemen, Iran, Syria, the Sudan, Libya, Egypt, Somalia and Afghanistan. They did not sneak into the US to pick apples. They have not attacked our electric grid and fuel storage because the time is not right, not because we have armed guards at Social Security Offices.

I predict that when the terrorists attack it will be broad and massive, perhaps even nuclear. Remember there are Russian Suitcase Nukes that cannot be accounted for. You will hear Liberal Cabinet Members saying citizens don’t need assault rifles to go hunting. The Constitution doesn’t give us the right to bear arms to go squirrel hunting. Japan opted not to attack our homeland during WWII for only one reason, an armed citizenry.

The terrorists probably have not been in a hurry to attack because the Obama Administration has been doing a pretty good job of weakening America. Admiral Mullen as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said our debt was the single biggest threat to our national security. Other existential threats include the Russian Nuclear Weapons and Cyber Attacks. Vladimir still does not love us, to Muslims we are the Big Satan and Israel is the Little Satan and to China we are their useful idiots.

It is incumbent upon each of us to be vigilant. While our government stands guard over Social Security Offices we must be alert for possible enemy activity. A few years ago one of my friends observed a Middle Eastern man taking pictures of a hospital, not in New York or Washington, DC but in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He followed the man and got pictures of him and his license number. The man got away. He was later identified as one of the most wanted terrorists. They are here and they can be anywhere. If you don’t have an assault rifle maybe you should get one.