There is a blogsite on the web I have had my first encounter with. It is called “The Next Right”. It is found at www.thenextright.com. The site’s founding editors are Soren Dayton, Jon Henke, and Patrick Ruffini. The site claims to be “… the place for wired activists to build a new Republican Party and conservative movement. As a community-driven grassroots action website for the right, we’ll feature in-depth political analysis, on-the-ground reports, and strategic discussion and debate.” Now, while this site may be a place for “wired activists’, I have come to abruptly find that you have to be of a particular ilk in order to be able to join their public discourse. The editors of this site are nothing less than high school grade intellects who practice censorship if your views do not jive with their agenda, they will pull your blog post.

Case in point, the folks heading up The Next Right have recently been sitcking it to World Net Daily (www.worldnetdaily.com) for pushing this silly “Birther” issue regarding whether or not President Obama is a natural born US citizen and therefore uneligible to hold the highest public office in the land. To me, it is a pretty straight forward issue, black and white, cut and dry: Either President Obama was born on US soil or he wasn’t? To this date, only President Obama and his handlers truly know the answer to this simple question. To this date, President Obama and his handlers haven’t come clean with an answer! So, if a water faucet is working properly and conitnues to pump out the water it was designed to pump out and doesn’t get turned off, guess what? I think that the water is going to continue to flow! That the people who run World Net Daily and others who have earned the label “Birthers” for wishing to get a straight answer on this question get mocked and publicly chastised is, (shall I say) – BS! It is a legitimate question which deserves an honest answer. That there would be people who claim a poitical right bent not to keep this issue at the forefront just induicated to me that the right sure does have its lot of sissies clamoring about. Or, in the case of the folks at The Next Right, clucking!

Whether President Obama is a real American or not isn’t going to change my life one way or the other. It will not make the Red Sea part again (if it ever really did!). It will not undo the damage caused by hurricaine “Katrina”. Nor, will it change whether or not I am going to totally go bald and lose all my teeth by the age of 90.  But, if Americans really do value the integrity of our US Constitution, President Obama needs to finally come clean with the subject. If he is clean, the issue dies and fades away. It is solved. He doesn’t seem to want that to happen. If our US Constitution is being bent or broken in order to accomodate President Obama, that should be news – BIG news! But, with people who claim to be on the right (and it shouldn;t be just folks on the right’s concern) that are opting to impose censorship on discussing the issue, I am going to cll them out on it. It is these very people that helped get President Obama elected inthe first place…..OMG, there it is….here is the link at why they wish to impose censorship!

Truly, the “Birther” issue alienates the squeemish minded and those who ride the political fence, root for the San Franicsco 49ers when they win the Super Bowl, dump them then root for the Pittsburgh Steelers when they win. They are like the tide of the oceans. One minute in, the next minute out. And with friends like the censorship Nazis who run and live at The Next Right, who needs enemies?

Now auditioning for right-winged, conservative male with zero inhibitions about his masculinity to facilitate newly constructed gender sensitivity training for female faculty, staff and students of Indiana-Puurdue University in Fort Wayne. As the continuing politically indoctrinated female population continues to graduate from our nation’s universities at an unprecedented rate and assume positions of authority and liability, it is only expedient and proper that a little dose of their own manufactured medicine be dispensed for coherced consumption. The ideal candidate will have several years of experience in dealing with basic bio-cultural anthropological, labor, entreprenuership, marketiing, family and social issues. Basic course completion in a human sexuality a major plus, not an insignificant minor. An understanding of the physiological differences of the male and female human brain and its many complexities preferred, but a court may rule this unbiological. For more information and/or to schedule an audition, please call 260-348-8978. * This advertisement is not condoned or approved by IPFW.

TWAS MIDNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

HIS UNIT HAD WORKED HARD

THROUGH THICK AND THROUGH THIN

TO FIGHT THIS SADDAM

AND OSAMA AND WIN

PRIOR NIGHT HAD BEEN HEATED

BY BATTLES DESPAIR

BUT TONIGHT WAS TO BE DIFFERENT

THE SEABEES JUST COMPLETED

A REINFORCED PATROL

NO ENEMY WAS SPOTTED

SEABEES AGAIN IN CONTROL

OF ALL PROPERTY AND SIGHT

AS GENERAL ORDERS RELAY

THE LONE SEABEE ON WATCH

THE CHIEF WAS THE LAST

TO ADDRESS HIS SEABEE,

“HANG IN THERE ‘TIL DAWN

KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS OPEN

AND YOUR WITS ON THESE GROUNDS

YOU’RE A SEABEE ON GUARD

COMPLETE WITH LIVE ROUNDS

I KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE

THE LUCK OF THE DRAW

I NEED SOMEONE HERE GOOD

THE BEST WITHOUT FLAW”

ON WENT THOSE GOGGLES

WHERE EVERYTHING TURNS GREEN

THE SEABEE ON WATCH LOOKED BAD

HE REALLY LOOKED MEAN!

WITH OTHER SEABEES IN TOTO

OFF THE CHIEF WENT

BACK TO BASE CAMP

ALL TIRED AND SPENT

THE LONE SEABEE ON WATCH

TESTED BY BATTLE

OWNED THE DARK NIGHT

NERVES DIDN’T RATTLE

SECONDS TURNED TO MINUTES

MINUTES INTO AN HOUR

STILL THE SEABEE STOOD WATCH

HIS HEART DID NOT SOUR

THEN AT ZERO ONE

LIKE A SCUD MISSLE

AN IDEA HIT HOME HARD,

“CHRISTMAS WAS OFFICIAL”

YET, THOUGH FAR AWAY

WITH LOVED ONES BACK HOME

HIS BUDDIES BACK ASLEEP

HE’D STILL NOT BEMOAN

ABOUT WHY HE WAS HERE

ATOP A DESERT MOUND

IN FACT IT BECAME CLEAR

WHY SEABEES WERE AROUND

HELPING THOSE WISHING FREEDOM

WHO’VE BEEN OPPRESSED

UNSHACKLING THEIR CHAINS

FROM REGIMES TURNED OBSESSED

IT’S NOT THE DESERT

CAUSING FREEDOM’S THIRST

WE’RE JUST NOW LEARNING

IT’S OK TO STRIKE FIRST

SO FOR AN HOUR THIS WENT ON

TURNING RYHME INTO REASON

LENDING CREDENCE TO SEABEES 

BUT THEN AROUND ZERO TWO

SOMETHING DID CHANGE

THE SEABEE SAW A LIGHT

WHICH FLICKERED DOWNRANGE

ABOVE THE HORIZON

OR WHAT ONE CAN BE IN THE DARK

LIKE PETER PAN’S TINKER BELL

‘TWAS AGLOW WITHOUT BARK

THIS LITTLE LIGHT VENTURED CLOSER

STILL TIMID AND REMOTE

SO OUR SEABEE RADIOED IN

TAKING TIME TO DENOTE

THERE WAS THIS STRANGE SPARKLE

IN HOOSIER, DOWN YONDER WAY

IT WAS HARD TO DESCRIBE

TWASN’T A SEABEE, NO WAY!

BUT THE SPARKLE ITSELF

WAS LEAVING A TRAIL

LIKE A RUDDERLESS BOAT

BOBBING WITHOUT SAIL

SO THE SEABEE TOOK CHANCE

IN ORDER BETTER TO SEE

TO SEE WHAT THIS SPARKLE

THIS SPARKLE MIGHT BE

OFF WENT THE GOGGLES

AT FIRST THINGS TURNED ALL BLACK

BUT SOON SIGHT RETURNED

YUP, CAME RIGHT BACK

AND THERE BEYOND MEASURE

WITHOUT NOISE WITHOUT SOUND

DEEP IN THE HEART

THE SEABEE’S CHRISTMAS WAS FOUND

RIGHT UNDER OUR RADAR

AND OUR SATTALITE’S VISION

WAS A VEHICLE OF HOPE

REPLETE WITH PROVISION

NO CHALLENEGE WAS OFFERED

NO PASSWORD WAS NEEDED

ONLY JOY WAS PROFFERED

A NEW CHRISTMAS WAS SEEDED

IT LOOKED LIKE A TRAIN

CUDDLED WITH KEPT FUR

WITH THESE ANTLER LEGGED THINGS

THAT’D MAKE NAVY SEALS PUR

YES, THERE WAS RUDOLPH

TRUE TO STORY’S DELIGHT

AGAIN HE HAD TO HELP

THESE REINDEER UNTIL BRIGHT

OUT FROM THE BACK

A CABOSE DRESSED AS SLEIGH

ROSE THIS JOLLY BIG FELLA

MY GOD WHAT’D HE WEIGH?

ALL DRESSED IN NIGHT CAMMIES

ALL CHALKED AND WELL KEPT

HE WAS ALL FULL OF GLEE

THOUGH HE’D NOT YET SLEPT

“HO, HO THERE FELLOW SEABEE,

WHY DON’T LOOK SURPRISED

I’VE BEEN OUT DOING RECON

MY REAL OUTFIT THEY’D DESPISE

YOU’RE MY LAST STOP

AND I’VE SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST

BECAUSE YOU’VE REMEBERED THE TRUTH

YOU’VE REMEMBERED MY PAST

“ABOUT WHAT I’M ABOUT

JUST MORE THAN BEING NAMED NICK

FOR SOME I’M A SAINT

FOR OTHER’S I’M A – RICHARD”

“I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS HONOR

FOR SUCH A STORY TO UNFOLD

WHY IF IT WAS ME WITH JUST DONNER

I’D BE WITH MY WIFE BEING BOLD!”

“YOU’RE OUT ON YOUR WATCH

PULLING TIME CHRISTMAS EVE

BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW

I’VE GOT SOMETHING UP MY SLEAVE”

“A SEABEE DOES HIS DUTY

REGARDLESS OF PLACE OR CLIME

EVEN MARINES BECOME SEABEES

WHEN GOD GRANTS ENOUGH TIME”

“BUT ALL CANDOR ASIDE

I KNOW THAT TIME IS PRESSING

YOU’VE BEEN TASKED BY THE LORD

WITH THIS IMPORTANT BLESSING”

“MOST ANGELS HAVE WINGS

GOD GAVE ME REINDEER

I FLY ACROSS EARTH

PROFFERING CHRIST’S CHEER”

“THAT DEEP WITHIN US ALL

IS A WELL WHICH RUNS DEEP

SOMETIMES IT GETS CRACKED

SOMETIMES IT DOES SEEP”

“SOMETIMES IT CRIES OUT

AND WE HURT AND WE WEEP

SOMETIMES WE SEEK VENGENCE

FOR AN ILL FLOWN OUR WAY

SOMETIMES WE SEEK JUSTICE

TO MAKE THOSE ONES PAY

SOMETIMES WE TAKE AIM

AT THOSE WE NEED MOST

FORGETTING THE LOVE

BESTOWED BY OUR HOST”

“NEVER FORGET DEAR SEABEE

THAT WHAT YOU DO HERE

ENSURES OUR WAY OF LIFE

THAT WE HOLD TO BE DEAR”

“AND AS A TOKEN OF TRUTH

FROM MY SLEAVE I RETRIEVE

A ROUND OF RESILIANCE

THAT YOUR METTLE RECEIVE”

“NEVER GIVE UP HOPE

NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT

NEVER LOSE SCOPE

WHAT YOU’RE DOING IS RIGHT”

AND THEN OFF HE WENT

ALONG WITH DONNER AND BLITZEN

COMET AND CUPID AND WELL -

HIS ELVES THAT WERE SPRITZEN

THE SEABEE ON WATCH  STOOD FROZEN

RIGHT THERE ON HARD GROUND

NOT SURE WHAT HAD HAPPENED

WERE ANY OTHER SEABEES AROUND?

THE SEABEE ON WATCH  LOOKED

GAZING TO THE STARY SKY

ASKING TO HIMSELF,

“COME ON NOW, LORD, WHY”?

YET, THE ANSWER HAD COME FORTH

AND IT HAD TURNED ZERO THREE

THE CHIEF WAS HEARD COMING

SURELY HE DID SEE?

BUT, IT REALLY DIDN’T MATTER

FOR CHRISTMAS HAD CAME

IN A WAY NEVER IMAGINED

LIFE COULD NEVER BE THE SAME

STILL THREE HOURS TO GO

THE SEABEE’S WATCH HALFWAY THROUGH

ALL OLD THOUGHTS BECAME EMPTY

FRESHNESS WAS NOW ANEW

ALL THAT HAD BEEN EARNED

FROM EARLY YOUTH UNTIL NOW

HAD GONE BY THE WAYSIDE

WITH SUCH POWER AND HOW

FOREVER STANDING DUTY

TAKING CHARGE OF ASSIGNED GROUND

THE SEABEES WILL BUILD AND FIGHT

OUR RESOLVE FIRMLY BOUND

“NO MATTER WHERE TERROR MAY HIDE

IN THE DEPTHS WHERE YOU LURK

WE WILL CONFRONT YOU WITH TRUTH

AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU HURT

WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN

WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU BLEED

WE WILL SURELY MAKE CERTAIN

THAT YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED”

FOR THE SEABEE ON WATCH LEARNED

WHAT HAS TO AVOIDED

IS LETTING FEAR BE OUR FOE

A WEAKNESS TO BE EXPLOITED

FEAR WE WILL MASTER

FROM IT GREAT STRENGTH WILL ARISE

IT IS OUR KEY WEAPON

TO CAUSE TERROR’S DEMISE

IT’S BEEN A YEAR NOW

FROM THIS VERY DAY

WHEN OUR SEABEE STOOD WATCH

AND HE CONTINUES TO PRAY

THAT THIS WAR ONE DAY END

THIS WAR THAT’S ON TERROR

FOR BY NOW WE HAVE LEARNED

IT IS WAGED NOT IN ERROR

AND SO MY MILITARY FRIENDS

THIS IS A CONTINUING STORY

ABOUT A SEABEE STANDING WATCH

AND HIS CHIRSTMAS GLORY

IN NO CERTAIN TERMS

CAN WE PREDICT THE FUTURE

WHAT IT MAY BRING

WHERE WE MAY BE A SUTURE

WHERE SEABEES WILL BE CALLED

TO EXERCISE THEIR TRADE

TO DEFEND RIGHT FROM WRONG

WITH SUCH SHARPENED BLADE

TO ALL WHO SERVE OUR NATION

NO MATTER WHERE YE MAY BE

WE SEABEES “HOE-HOE” WISH YOU,

“A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THEE”

 LPC 2002-2003

March 31, 2009

Response To Letter From Congressman Mark Souder, R-IN

My view of the "economic crises"? The greatest opportunity to shed the cobwebs of a prior way of making a legitimate, respectful living and growing into the potential that all of us who are Americans have the chance to evolve into - IF we really, truly apply ourselves to do so.

First of all, I am NOT a subscriber to the "economic crises" mantra. I think this is all a calculated purposely manufactured media campaign to further secure the global control of access to material resources by those who already control agricultural, energy and financial resources. Americans are just easy targets to manipulate with hype because somewhere along the way, education has taken a back seat to indoctrination - Americans are not taught how to think...We are bred to be told what to think. I know this is a rather broad and general assertion. But, I can defend it. I am in a propaganda oriented industry (event marketing). I have an acting background and know when something is being directed and choreographed. I am also an avid reader and have read enough books of past and present ideologists who have clearly stated what it is that they wish to do to be producers of "change" and why you and I should follow. Must I name names here with this last one?

Specifically, you asked me "how the government's response in the stimulus and President Obama's budget affected you". Generically, the only effect it has had on me is what I am presented with by the media. One can't help notice that only the most negative stories are ever aired. Why? "Pain sells". Unfortunately, we have a media that is more concerned about occupying their accounts receivable coffers than they are about shedding light on people who refuse to succumb to adversity. Rather, they take advantage of it. Why? Because, that is what being fortunate enough to be an American is all about! At least, it used to be.

You allege that "the government must respond, but, it must do so wisely". OK, really? Why might that be? Short of America now being overrun by illegal aliens and the resources they freely suck up, is America being invaded by a foreign power? Is there a mass pandemic of the 1918 Spanish Flu repeating itself? Is it written somewhere that NE Indiana residents must be totally dependent on an outside source to make a living. Let alone, work 20-50 years in only one occupation or trade? Please, indulge me,

When I was born, did I personally receive some sort of birthright that I had my own personal Garden of Eden replete with an unlimited abundance of unending supply and prosperity...and NEVER had to take care of it?  Trust me, there have been times in my life that I truly thought that simply because I am a natural born American (a Native American Hoosier), that I am owed something in return for my existence. That is a complete lie. Problem is, there is a fully operating channel of media out there in the public domain that actively encourages such thinking. 

2.     IIt is up to ME to figure out how to make a living. Regardless of what I have learned in the past, what I am trained to do, I MUST CONTINUE TO STAY CURRENT WITH BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS!!! Duh, when has anything in this life EVER remained the same? Even gram's chocolate cookies changed with time. And, when the microwave came along, do you think that gram still sweated out slaving over her gas stove in rural Whitley County? If I am out of a job because it has been replaced by something or someone new, I have two choices: I either get current so that I am marketable again or I moan and groan that my government check is late in the mail. and, trust me on this one, I know what it is like to receive a government check to replace not working. It was made so easy for me to get that working wasn't worth working for! Allowing me to have the government to fall back on totally destroyed any inspiration to work. As such, I created a thinking paradigm which validated my life being worthy of grossing $312 a week!!3.

3.     The 3d item here kind of segways off from the 2ND. I am an American! Where has it ever been written that, if I go to "work for the man/woman", that same work is going to be there tomorrow?" If it is written somewhere, I would like to be shown it. That is kind of a rather arrogant perspective to project from. Why, just yesterday on WOWO, some lady whose husband moved to Fort Wayne from southern California to take a job out at the local GM plant (which, by definition, took a job from someone here locally!) should be bailed out simply because he chose to move here to take that job! Who is teaching people to think this stuff up? I bet, you and I both know the answer to that one. Still, since when has any business in history gone into business to become a social welfare provider for its employees. To me, business is in the business of business!

Look, Congressman Souder, I am in college loan debt up to my receding hairline. I am drowning in interest and the financial lack to pay on any of it. It has always been this way. I have never made more than $24K in my 48-years of life. I have a net worth of about $100k+. I cannot find regular, consistent work wither in my industry here locally or nationally. But, the reality is, I have NEVER changed my life operating model to address my own personal poverty issues. The choices I have made have brought me such. I cannot blame anyone else for my economic presence on this earth. And, I am not sorry in saying that way too many people are trying to take advantage of an opportunity to extract more and more from the government to pay for their (my) excesses and never have to be held accountable.

Somehow, someway, I am going to figure out how to overcome my own economic personal challenges. No matter what the government does, the point is, I do not need you. In fact, in my view, the government has done too much damage to pursuing the overall American dream to begin with. As an American I will invent a way to overcome anything that is thrown my way - let alone shoved down my throat by this President and his sycophants in the federal legislature. It sure will not be today. Probably, not tomorrow. But, one day the time will come when my potential is realized. And, when this happens? I am not there yet, so how could I know? This last point should be food for thought for those getting cozier in Washington DC!

Lance Phillip Cordill
THEE LANCE TALENT
www.linkedin.com/lancecordill
www.twitter.com/lancecordill
lancecordill@yahoo.com
260-348-8978

PS: If you are a potential employer or business associate, this is what and who I am as of this composure. I do not beat around the bush anymore when it comes to business or who my associations are. Too much time and money are lost being phony. Life is to short for such.