A friend serving in Iraq wrote Rush Limbaugh and copied me.  This is the soldier’s message followed by my reply:

Dear Rush, some thoughts for you…

As an American soldier currently serving in Iraq, I feel compelled to write to express my deepest disappointment with the current state of affairs in America, particularly with the fact that I now face being categorically branded a potential terrorist according to the Dept. of Homeland Security.

Yes, I will admit, I have long had right-wing, conservative political leanings, I am against illegal immigration since it is illegal, I strongly support the right to bear arms, and am an advocate for states’ rights.  In fact, I am greatly alarmed at how the federal government is currently over-stepping its bounds and is dangerously extending its scope and power into realms where it has no Constitutional authority.  Frankly, I’m pretty pissed off at how criminally irresponsible our so-called elected representatives in Washington have been giving our hard-earned tax dollars away without our approval.  And yes, I have been known to place bumper stickers of various 3rd party candidates and other political slogans on the bumper of my pickup truck.

So, I ask, does all of the above make me a potential terrorist?  Am I to be lumped in with the same groups as the Ku Klux Klan and Al Qaeda?  Or, because I’m really sick and tired of the hypocrisy of overpaid and corrupt government officials could I be considered a dangerous Lone Wolf?

Well, Sec. Napolitano and President Obama and company, have you considered the fact that I might just be an American citizen with the legal and God-given right to embrace all of the above in the Land of the Free?  Isn’t that why I’m over here, taking precious time away from my family and business to defend those rights inherited by our Founding Fathers, who were they alive today, might very well be on your list as well?

I would hate to think that the very actions of representatives of the federal government, such as this report by the DHS, might contribute to further alienation of the American public towards said government, resulting in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.  After all, the Founding Fathers did charge us with safeguarding our freedoms from an overbearing government seeking to infringe upon our individual rights.

My reply:

Jon, God bless you and I hope he reads it.  I certainly will. 

A former preacher and now politician who does an hour with me on Mondays brought me the Napolitano report.  My Lord, I’m an American and not the enemy.

Last week there was a meeting here at the Legion hall.  It’s the group modeled on The Patriot League but with no plans to make the same mistakes.  We’re, as I said earlier, growing vegetables and canning, and there are plans to use the organization as a political action committee. 

There was a government agent taking down license plates in the parking lot.  Two miles away there are hundreds of illegal aliens working at a chicken plant. 

How many Legionnaires in the next room having a beer had their plate numbers taken?  Men who bled on battlefields for their country now collateral damage for the latest government purge. 

The Obamites may well be creating the situation they claim to fear. 

I have resisted for months joining Twitter, the mini messaging website that works sort of like blogging on much smaller scale.  Posts or messages or “Tweats” as the Twitter users call them are limited to 140 characters.   This is what I mean by small.  You are limited to these little bursts of thought supposedly to answer the question “what are you doing right now”?

Last night for example I shared with the world and the folks who have decided to “follow me” (another feature of Twitter, keeping you up to date with the people in the world you choose to stay up to date with) that I was throwing away Christmas dinner leftover green bean casserole.  I sent this wonderful update from my cell phone as a text message and it appeared instantly to my Twitter page and to my “followers” and to anywhere else I wanted to put a twitter html code!  Kind of neat in it’s simplicity, which is why I finallydecided to try it.  My thinking is one simple text is easier than updating my website and my blog as separate events!

Since starting with Twitter a few days ago, I’ve already made contact with many new listeners I didn’t know before, and that is a good thing.  I have also used the service to explain my daily on air topics, off air comments during my live show, and I even sent out a Tweat giving the answer to an on air trivia question 20 minutes before I even asked the question!  Yes, a fellow Twitter user won the prize!  I cheated, sort of, in the name of FUN…. and connectivity.

I encourage you WGMD listeners to try Twitter, it’s free, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.  It’ll be another way we can interact and share during our talks about local issues.

Learn more and follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dangaffney

-Dan Gaffney

So the plumber isn’t named Joe? It’s his middle name. No surprise here. We aren’t allowed to speak middle names in this campaign. The name which can’t be spoken, familiar to people of faith, which means the candidate, will now be known as “I am that I am”. When you go and vote tell them “I am” has sent you.

I’ve been putting together some strings of ideas. A story on NPR told me the world financial system was now so complex we need to be part of international regulation of the markets. U.S. sovereignty will be surrendered to a new world financial order. Days before I read a report from a U.N. committee. It recommends that meat be rationed to 2 servings a week in order to provide equally for all people of this world. Considering much of the world eats very little meat the paper targets the industrialized world or primarily English and French speaking North America. You’ll need a U.N. card for grocery shopping.

The same report also urges prohibition of alcohol. Apparently brewing cold beer takes food from the mouths of children in Bangladesh. Since we can’t be trusted to do the “right thing” the world government will reshape our conscience. Don’t object or you’ll lose the ration card and be left with an empty rice bowl.

How convenient for the globalists the financial panic. For many years I’ve derided conspiracy theorists who spoke of a currency called the Amero, the North American Super Highway and Washington’s submission to the United Nations. Now I’m starting to take these claims seriously.

Which candidate most likely to assume the White House would take us in this direction? Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden are primary sponsors of the “global tax”. Nearly one trillion dollars would be funneled overseas in an effort to end poverty (Apparently no one before has ever thrown money this direction). We’ll also need a trillion or so for single payer health care. We’ll control costs by limiting what your doctor can earn. You may remember surgeons in the Soviet Union often were paid less than construction crews. Not to disparage blue collar workers but your doctor has years of student loans on the books.

Unless of course you make education “free” and control teacher pay. This should only cost the treasury a trillion or trillion and one half. With a national debt expected to reach 11 trillion dollars next year you’re probably worried the national credit card will be maxed pretty soon. Not to worry, the Chinese have agreed to continue financing the debt as long as we agree to worldwide control of financial markets and ultimately subject our government and the will of the people to control of a world body. It’s all so easy but for the United States Constitution. No need to worry, Obama will appoint Justices who’ll smooth the rough edges. He owes the Chinese, my friends, they’ve bankrolled his campaign.

Lastly, you’ve likely heard President Obama and his Congressional friends, riding a rising tide in both houses plan to put the Fairness Doctrine back in place. Effectively silencing talk radio hosts nationally and at the local level who may dare tell you “I am that I am” is a false God.

The Jared Morris Show will host Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee live in our broadcast studio Thursday (tomorrow) at 10am!

Listen live on 92.7 WGMD radio and as always online with our live streaming audio here:

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Heard this morning on the WGMD Dan Gaffney morning show - “Dover” by John Flynn of Hockessin

Hear it again - John Flynn - MySpace

John Flynn website

Here are the lyrics -

Dover                                    By John Flynn

 Elijah was a sergeant, 42 years old
from Mesa Arizona, Elijah won’t grow old
Patrick was with C Troop, Second Armored Cav
His buddies all remember how Patrick loved to laugh
Seth was from East Brunswick, just a newly wed
Somewhere in New Jersey a young widow bows her head
Daniel was from Boston shipped out from Fort Bragg
His mother got back Daniel with a folded flag  

Chorus:
Oh big airplane bring’em down easy
Out of the Delaware skies
Oh big airplane Dover is waiting
to welcome the  heroes you fly… home

William was in Anbar, combat engineer
1^st Marine Division, William isn’t here
Alan rebuilt bridges for Battalion B
Next to cause of death they wrote the letters I E D
Gussie was a scrub nurse hailing from Fort Bliss
Gussie had a spirit this world’s gonna miss
Jeremiah’s son cries on his mamma’s knee
There was no armor plating on his dad’s humvee

Chorus 

Scrubbed wooden pallets with white straps cinched over
Long boxes of flag draped aluminum
The C-5 is crowded when it lands in Dover
The honor guard boards and makes room again

Making straight for Nineveh, just like Jonah’s whale
Holy truth you swallow, overseas you sail
Precious is the cargo sacred was the gift
offered in the sandstorm from which your wings lift
Those who would pay homage can’t watch you set down
Behind barbed wire sentries miles from their town
No one breathes to question this silent parade
Except for the anguished loved ones left to say

© 2005 Flying Stone Music

Back from a few days off, and running to a live broadcast at Browseabout Books, I wanted to quickly post this shocking information found in our comments section.  More to come…

1. BCCI Says:
   December 5th, 2007 at 9:15 pm e 

   Scott A. Quillen age 36 passed away Dec 2 from surgery complications. He was a frequent poster on the WGMD forums known as “Carnifex”.

   Scott worked in IT for Delaware State Police and was owner of DelmarvaMotorcycling.com. As motorcyclist he was Ride Captain for
   Patriot Guard Mission to honor Marine Cpl. Corey Palmer

   Visitation is 5 DEC from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. where anyone that wants to pay their respects can do so.

   The funeral services will be held on 6 DEC starting at 12:00pm.

   The Hastings Funeral Home
   19 S. Main Street
   Selbyville, DE 19975

Alot of press has been made about WBOC’s blocking out of certain programming. Here’s the message on my TV today when I accidentally tried to watch Seinfeld. Oh well, guess I’ll have to find something better to do with myself. Actually, just had the TV on in the background and noticed sound stopped coming from it.

So, instead of watching Seinfeld out of Fox in Philly, I guess you have to watch it on Fox 21 Delmarva. Eh, who cares? Let’s get some locally produced content on our local channels. Any Ideas? Dan and I liked Judge Infante, a judge type show where Frank Infante plays Mediator.

Anyway, The Fox 29 station isn’t being blocked completely, therefore, local cable companies do have the ability to just block certain shows (as the message says). Seacrest Out.

Above TV Screen Message reads: In compliance with the FCC syndication exclusivity regulations, this program is blocked out. Local TV stations are allowed to protect their exclusive rights and cable operators are required to block out any duplicate programming. Normal programming will resume once the protect programming has concluded.

Delaware Today Fires Shot Over My Bow

 

Page 20 of the current Delaware Today magazine has a column by a fellow named Matt Amis.  Matt has made a funny.  The title of the piece is called “Dela Where?” and it looks at the other “Delawares” across the country.   Here is an excerpt:

 

Delaware, Iowa.  What has a population of 188 and is roughly 98.9 percent white?  No, it’s not Dan Gaffney’s listening audience.  It’s the hustling, bustling, middle-of-freakin’-nowhere town of Delaware, Iowa.  Does this even qualify as a one-horse town? Palomino, maybe?

 

I’m thinking of rallying my black listeners for a march on the offices of Delaware Today.

 

 

Delaware blogger Hube at The Colossus of Rhodey, does a great job dissecting the News Journal’s ridiculous policy of withholding race descriptions of wanted criminals.  One of my favorite soap box topics.  Read it here. 

It seems odd that the Delaware Republican Party would not be troubled by the sometimes offensive public writings of a State District Chair.  John Allison known in the blogoshere as Kilroy, often peppers his writings with the “f”-word,  “s”-word “p”-word  etc.  He has a recent post about two Delaware Democrats sniffing each others rear end.  Only he didn’t say rear end, he used a more locker room term.  Slang words to describe the size of male anatomy have also been used recently.  I understand this public image is allowed by all standards of free speech, but it still reflects very poorly on Delaware Republicans when Kilroy identifies himself as 19^th District State Chair, while jumping into the gutter with language. Republicans in the First State would be well served if Mr. Allison were asked to tone it down, resign or at least stop identifying himself as the Chair while writing such garbage.