Bootnapping

June 12, 2024

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/leonard-peltier-release-biden-amnesty-international

who has served nearly 50 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents, was due to have his first parole hearing since 2009 on Monday, his lawyer said.

This is an interesting case, in the first place doesn't the FBI have more important cases to investigate than stolen cowboy boots. But then perhaps they were their boss's boots. After all Indians aren't known for wearing cowboy boots, and they should have had boots aplenty after the Battle of the Little Bighorn including Custer's which were certainly of great quality, and handmade. Well this poor guy's been in jail nearly fifty years for the crime of Bootnapping and murder after the pursuing Agents were shot down by individuals unknown and this poor sap had to take the rap. I had a friend had his boots, and the rest of his clothes stolen after an evening of Ménage a Trios with a couple of high class hookers who felt they hadn't received adequate remuneration and perhaps this case had a similar origin. Well the FBI always gets their man, or was it the RCMP, guilty or not! (I wonder what became of the boots, perhaps J. Edgar Hoover wound up wearing them?)

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2024

Your Daughter Could Be Next

February 26, 2024

The latest atrocity caused by the actions of the corrupt administration in Washington is the murder of a Georgia nursing student by an illegal alien while out for a morning jog. This is just the latest crime committed against American citizens since the Biden Administration threw our borders open to everyone and anyone wishing to enter our country, regardless of the laws on the books restricting illegal entry, and without them submitting the proper documentation that might allow of legal admission. The crimes committed by these illegal aliens in the meantime run into the hundreds of thousands including Murder, Rape, Assault, Kidnapping, Robbery, Theft, Carjacking, Extortion, Sex Trafficking, Drug Smuggling, and numerous others crimes. Why our citizens are not howling for relief from these illegals being given unfettered license to go where and when they please in the country, and in most cases accommodated and fully supported while they remain illegally within our borders, only adds insult to injury. The present administration and numerous Congressmen are complicit in the commission of these crimes, making them, in the eyes of any citizen with a functioning brain, accomplices. They should all be turned out of office as soon as humanly possible, and in the meantime hounded and exposed to all actions necessary to see them impeached, defeated in the next elections or forced to resign. They are vermin of the worst order a blight on Law and Order, and enemies of Democracy and Civilization!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2024

The James Gang Rides Again

February 20, 2024

The most famous gang of bank and train robbers in US History was the James Gang of Missouri led by Jesse and Frank James. Their infamous reign was brought to an end when Jesse was shot and killed by a gang associate pretending to become a member of the gang, who shot Jesse when he was unarmed and his back turned, and is forever known as the "Dirty Little Coward". The new James Gang is led by the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, assisted by her primary henchman, Judge Arthur Engoron. As did the original gang, they lay hands on their ill gotten gain by preying on honest citizens. If and when their crimes are brought to a conclusion depends on just legal action, and failing this, action by a private citizens who step in to accomplish the job.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2024

Vim and Vigor

January 14, 2024

And so, in absolute desperation the administration trotted out the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden to inform us how vigorous and alert her husband is, and fully prepared to serve our country another four years as President. I’m not quite sure what kind of Doctor Dr. Jill is?

A Medical Doctor, the former White House MD doesn’t think so and I certainly give more credence to his opinion than Dr. Jill’s. We have had very vigorous Presidents in the past, most notably Teddy Roosevelt, but Ike played golf, and earlier he’d played football at West Point including a notable game against the Carlisle Indians when Jim Thorpe played for than team. Ronald Reagan was a noted Horseman. As far as Joe’s vigor, perhaps we need the child that declared that, “The Emperor isn’t wearing any clothes!”

All I’ve ever seen Biden do is jog about three step’s when approaching the podium, in obvious imitation of Obama. The rest of the time we see him stumbling up and down stairs, lost on the stage once he’s read, or tried to, his lines off the teleprompter and having to be led off by the hand, falling down when attempting to ride a bicycle, and dragging a flimsy beach chair to the beach where he plops down under the umbrella until time to shuffle off for his Pablum, then off to bed, until his vigorous next day starts about ten or eleven in the morning, and after a two hour lunch it’s hard back at work until four when his exhausting day concludes. It makes me think about that old saw about fooling the people, and frankly I’m not buying it! Let’s Go Brandon!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2024

For They Have Sown The Wind

December 22, 2023

Democrats, the Deep State, and RINOS are faced with a terrible dilemma, the Biden administration is an unmitigated disaster. Everything was better when Donald Trump was President. They know Biden can’t beat Trump in a free and fair election. They know also, because of the intense scrutiny voting will receive in November it will make cheating extremely difficult. They therefore are using every dirty trick in the book to attack Trump in the meantime. The most recent outrage is the move by hack Judges on the Colorado Supreme Court to block Trump’s name from appearing on the Presidential ballot in that State. Their justification for this move is an 1868 Law passed by a Radical Republican Congress to prevent former Confederate Officers from having any political influence in their home States to oppose the ongoing policy known as Reconstruction from exacting revenge on a prostrate South. This led to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which was the only means available to oppose this evil. That there corrupt Judges are now receiving hostile threats is entirely understandable, but of course deplored by the hacks lined up to attack Trump at every turn. As the election draws near expect the volume and intensity of the predicted Whirlwind to rise exponentially.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023 - 2024

Locking The Barn Door After The Horse Is Gone

December 1, 2023

The man that stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times has been charged with attempted murder. Isn’t that sweet? Sending a man to Federal Prison is supposed to be punishment for his crimes, not to make him a potential victim for attack by other prisoners. Tell that to Whitey Bulger and Jeffrey Epstein! Well of course we can’t, they’re long dead, both murdered in Federal custody. I hope the families of these innocent victims, innocent in the sense that they weren’t sent there to die at the hands of other prisoners, are prepared to bring massive lawsuits against against the Government for failure to protect them. When Al Capone was sentenced to prison for Income Tax Evasion he first went to Atlanta Federal Prison. Brain-addled by Syphilis and weak he fell victim to attack by two Southern peckerwoods. One of them was murdered in prison by an assailant unknown and the other crippled for life.

The Government didn’t protect him but fortunately Al’s friends did. Of course the Government is incapable of running anything successfully. Private Penal Systems are far more successful in protecting their charges, as well as obtaining productive work from them. Of course many Governors are opposed to this because it deprives them of chauffeurs, chefs, maids, yard boys, and general flunkies. Of course George Soros throws his money into electing Attorney Generals who don’t believe in sending anyone to jail, leaving innocent citizens as their prey.

I believe in prisons like Parchman Farm, I.e. “I’m puttin” that cotton in a eleven foot sack, got a twelve-gauge-shotgun at my back!”

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023 - 2024

Crisis in America

October 30, 2023

The failed Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has just made a trip to China to kiss the ring of Dictator Xi Jinping, while declaring eternal friendship and cooperation between his State and the Communist Country presently the greatest threat to World Peace, of the numerous countries that fit that description. In the meantime residents continue to flee the State of California like rats leaving a sinking ship, and whores parade the avenues and boulevards of her cities in g-strings and thong’s advertising their wares. His trip is a photo op to bolster his image as a replacement for the witless nincompoop Joe Biden as a Presidential candidate. Unfortunately he’s the only aspirant in all Fifty States capable of doing a worse job.

In the meantime support for Republican Donald Trump continues to grow by leaps and bounds in spite of the plethora of fraudulent criminal charges brought against him in desperate hope of derailing his candidacy. The Democrats now have another threat to their program of destruction of Constitutional guarantees with the election of Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana as Speaker of the House of Representatives. A well liked man of rock solid Christian values, and a man of real honesty and integrity presents a real threat to their chicanery and deceit. Depend upon the lies and phony stories of their propagandist in the fake news media to come a flying.

All the while our country remains in mortal peril with millions of illegal aliens continuing to pour across our Southern border, many from enemy terrorist countries, obviously bound for terrorist cells in our major cities, with others headed for sleeper cells to await further instruction. American Citizens continue to hemorrhage what little savings they have left as the economic policy known as Bidenomics ravages our Land.

There remains one hope, and one hope only for the salvation of our country from total ruin, and that is the candidacy of Republican Donald Trump for reelection as President. All else is darkness and despair. Not only should you pray for success but throw your efforts into supporting his candidacy as if your life depends on it, as in fact for many of us it does.

God Bless America and Make America Great Again!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Biden's War

October 9, 2023

Make no mistake about it, responsibility for the war of destruction being waged by Iran’s stepchild Hamas against Israel rests squarely at the door of President Biden and his administration. The relaxation of President Trump’s sanctions against Iran, the release of  billions of frozen dollars to Iran, and the diplomatic conversations with Iran about restoration of the Nuclear Agreement have emboldened the Ayotola Komeni and he has orchestrated this strike. Realizing that under Biden, U.S. Foreign Policy has become a paper tiger and he has little to fear in the way of repercussion. The destruction encompassing the entirety of Israel is massive and the death toll, primarily among civilians, approaches one-thousand, with the injured being many times that number. Hostages in great numbers have been taken, primarily civilian ranging in age from children to the elderly. Bodies of the dead have been desecrated and mutated in barbaric fashion. Iran and her proxies do not recognize the Geneva Convention so Articles of War do not apply. Israeli forces have cleared their country of the enemy and have been striking known Hamas structures in Gaza while the search for the hostages is ongoing and will continue until every one of them are accounted for. It will be a long and bloody engagement as Israel has declared war against Hamas and promises to root out and destroy this evil.

Now we learn that American Citizens are among the dead and injured, and a number of them taken hostage. This makes the strike by Hamas not only against Israel but against our own country and civilization as well. We also learn that some weapons in the hands of Hamas have come from Afghanistan and were from the eighty-billion-dollars of U.S. property abandoned to the enemy when the President ordered the cowardly withdrawal from Afghanistan in the dark of night. Biden has announced that our country will supply everything and anything Israel requires in the way of support. This being the case, why are not our Special Forces not en route to Israel to aid in the rescue of American Civilians held hostage, and to avenge the deaths of those so brutally slaughtered? Put your money where your mouth is Mr. President, or are you going to remain the bumbling figurehead of a President continuing to lie to the American People while doing nothing?

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Is Sen. John Fetterman Really Lennie Small

September 21, 2023

Of Mice and Men is a famous Novella by John Steinbeck later turned into a Movie Classic. It is the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two itinerant farm workers in depression era California. Lennie is a mentally challenged man, but strong and hard working. George is his friend that travels with him and looks out for him as they struggle to scrape together enough money to buy their own little place. It is a tragic story but well worth reading and watching the movie.

Now we find a similar situation in our own US Senate. John Fetterman is a mentally challenged man elected to the Senate by the citizens of Pennsylvania. He is physically strong, but incapable of buttoning his shirt, attaching a belt to his trousers, or tying his shoes, much less being able to tie a tie. Consequently his attire consists of elastic waistband athletic shorts, a hoodie, and slip on shoes. Looking out for him much like George looked after Lennnie is none other than Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader of the Senate. To accommodate his handicapped friend, he has altered the Dress Code of the Senate which had been formal coat and tie since its beginning Centuries ago.

Now you are able to wear whatever you choose, which allows his brain addled friend to shuffle into the Senate Chamber in his casual attire and sit at his desk, drooling and staring vacantly into space while the Senate conducts it’s business. Schumer has indeed found a home for his friend Fetterman who can retire at the end of his six year term on full salary and medical benefits for life. How fortunate this story has a happy ending, unlike the tragic ending of Of Mice and Men!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

The California Pretty Boy Has Presidential Fever

September 14, 2023

Governor Gavin Newsom of  the failed and bankrupt State of California has visions of sugarplums dancing before his eyes. He has contracted a case of Presidential Fever and if Democrats can successfully dump Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from the 2024 Ticket he could well be their boy.

Competence and Ability obviously play little part in obtaining a position of leadership in the Democrat Party and he’s well short on both accounts. His latest move to make him more acceptable to all States is the revocation of a law passed in California seven years ago restricting travel to States who’s laws do not conform to California’s woke laws. Since the law restricted travel to over half the country it would have hurt him on the National Stage. He’s hoping it will be long forgotten by the time primaries start rolling around next year.

It will be interesting to see what other twists and turns he makes trying to distance himself from the California maladministration and wokeness, not to mention his glaring  violations of Covid restrictions and his obvious hypocrisy. 


John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

The Biggist Jerk

September 2, 2023

It takes a lot to be the biggest jerk in the Republican Party but Adam Kinzinger pulled itoff without a hitch during his two years in Congress. He voted twice to impeach then President Donald Trump and stood with Democrats to hold him responsible for the protest of January 6th which they lyingly refer to as an insurrection. Of course there are plenty other jerks in the Republican Party once you add up all RINOs, Never Trumpers, and Trump Haters. None of their criticisms carry weight as Trump was a very effective President in spite of the two phony impeachments and lying accusations against him. What is the primary reason for all this animosity? Well it’s, either outright jealousy or greed because their ox is being gored by a Trump improvement. They are the disgusting scum of the Republican Party and should be ignored and shunned by all honest Republicans. The fact that Kinzinger is now employed by CNN should give you a clear picture of where his loyalties lie. 

Now as spokesman for one of the most untrustworthy TV News outlets he’s attacking another Republican, Governor Ron DeSantis. You see, so called President Joe Biden is on his way to the area of Florida most damaged by Hurricane Idalia for a photo op. He never goes anywhere other than a photo op unless it’s for an event or occasion that he can’t politically ignore. Regardless he often blows it by failing asleep, misidentifying persons he’s supposed to recognize, looking at his watch, or callously recalling an event for his own life that he compares to a present disaster to illustrate his deep compassion. Take for example his recent photo op in Hawaii where fire swept through an entire town, destroying it completely and leaving more than one hundred dead. To draw comparison he recalled a fire in his own home that nearly took the life of his wife, his cat, and nearly destroyed his precious Corvette. In fact it was nothing but a small kitchen fire which was quickly extinguished and threatened neither his wife, his cat, nor his precious car. Then when at the actual site he makes a joke about needing boots because the ground is still hot. Then, adding insult to injury he falls asleep during a memorial service for the deceased. Why now should DeSantis show up at a disaster site he’s already visited and has been talking positive steps to alleviate the suffering of the survivors just to add coverage to what’s nothing more than a photo op for Biden. If this scumbag Kinzinger is so concerned why doesn’t he show up there himself along with the phony President?

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

A Pitiful Remnant Of A Once Great Army

July 8, 2023

Anticipating US entry into WWII in 1939, the Commanding General of the US Army ordered a large scale military exercise to be conducted. It took place in a large part of Louisiana in late summer and early fall and involved 400,000 men. It became known as the Louisiana Maneuvers. A great deal was learned from the exercise and many who became great leaders in the coming war emerged from it including General George S. Patton who became the greatest US General of WWII. To imagine a similar exercise conducted today would expose our military leadership as the incompetent and inept frauds they are including the Commanding General, Mark Milley. It would also expose the deplorable state of present personnel, and their inability to operate successfully in the field. Thought it would be virtually impossible to conduct an exercise of this magnitude today, our Republican Congress should order the military to conduct similar, though smaller exercises so the state of our military capabilities and efficiency could be assessed.

There is little doubt in the minds of former military leaders that it would be a monumental failure, a failure for which the present administration bears great responsibility. Unfortunately, exposing this failure would be the only way to convince the American People of the need for a competent government in Washington to address the deficiency and take steps to remedy the deplorable situation. Unfortunately our enemies are already well aware of the situation and only the threat of Nuclear War has prevented the outbreak of hostilities well prior to today.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

US Military Leadership

July 7, 2023

The highest military position I held was Platoon Officer in Vietnam, but in observing US Military Operations then and since, and the study of those past, I feel competent to remark on their effectiveness, or lack thereof.

Korea turned into a debacle when MacArthur lost control when Chinese Communists hordes surprised his forces by a well planned crossing of the Yalu River, drove the US Army South in disarray, and to the East US Marines had to withdraw as well but did so in complete military order. Fortunately the greatest US General since WWII, Mathew Ridgeway assumed command. He restored discipline, stabilized a line across the peninsula, and proceeded to destroy Communist forces with air and artillery power into a figure that may have exceeded one million. Eventually hostilities ended in an armistice and the country remains divided between Communist and Free.

Next came Vietnam which ended in a U.S. withdrawal and eventual victory of Communist forces from the North. No great military commander emerged from this conflict.

Next came the very effective battle to drive and destroy the forces or Iraq, which had invaded the neighboring country of Kuwait and overthrown government there. A complete victory was lost though, with the failure to go on into Iraq and eliminate the evil government there. The evil Dictator of Iraq remained in power, and consequently eliminated the leaders that could have established a competent government had the regime been destroyed. 

Then came the most effective terrorist operation in history known as 9/11. Commercial airliners were hijacked and turned into flying bombs, taking down the two World Trade Center buildings and delivering massive damage to the Pentagon. Only one of the four aircraft failed to reach the target. Obviously the FBI, CIA, and our Intelligence Agencies were all asleep at the switch. This atrocity occurred shortly after George W. Bush assumed office but most of the blame must be attributed to the previous administration.

Then in fraudulent attempt to attack Terrorism the US declared war on Iraq on the totally false premise that Iraq was manufacturing Weapons of Mass Destruction that turned into failure, and the ensuing result was no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and massive losses of US military personnel and the total disruption of Civilization in the Middle East, which has resulted in mass emigration of peoples there into Europe creating the chaos existing there to the present day.

Then came the most recent disaster, Afghanistan. We went after the Taliban there who were aiding and abetting World Terrorism, and sheltering the genius behind the World Trade Center attack. This woe begotten land has been fought over for centuries with no conqueror achieving ultimate success. Effective operations were conducted by the CIA in managing the Tribes in facilitating driving the Russians out, but when the Army went in that tactic went out the window. Our greatest generals rotated in and out, none of which would measure knee high to a giant like Ridgeway. Glowing reports of success came and went and the end result was the greatest debacle of US Arms, leaving billions of dollars worth of military equipment behind, and carrying out the deal bodes of thirteen service personnel unnecessarily killed due to the incompetence of military leadership, and this same failed leadership remains in power today, while the most incompetent President continues to declare it a glowing success.

To quote the words of Sheriff Ed Dodd from the magnificent play, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, “I may not be the smartest feller to come down the pike, but I damn shore know the difference between when it’s raining, and when someone’s pissing on my boots!”

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Cornered Rats

June 22, 2023

A cornered rat is a dangerous animal and Washington, D.C., aka The Swamp, is full of them. The cornered rats I’m talking about are members of the so called Deep State, which includes criminals and traitors in government offices, the Biden Administration, the Congress, RINOS, and Never Trumpers. They never expected Donald Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton, which fortunately saved the country from the most evil woman in elected politics, and they’ve been beside themselves ever since trying to destroy him. They well know that if Donald Trump is elected their day in the Sun is over and not only will their political careers and influence be at an end, but many of them will be facing prosecution when integrity is restored to the DOJ and the FBI by the appointment of an honest Attorney General and Director of the FBI, and the rooting out of the dishonest scum at the highest levels of both organizations.

In desperate attempts to prevent Trump’s election, fraudulent criminal and civil charges have been lodged against him, in hope that convictions will stop his run, and if they can stack a jury with their ilk, hopefully jail him for life. The DOJ has been conducting the most ruthless manhunt in US History to identify every individual in Washington, DC on January 6th to protest the fraudulent election of Joe Biden so they may be charged with a crime, whether real or contrived. The corrupt government presently in power has called this mostly peaceful protest an insurrection, yet the only person to die by violence that day was a protester murdered by a Capitol Policeman who was never charged with a crime. If they are successful in finding Donald Trump guilty of a crime they have fraudulently contrived and preventing his run for the Presidency they may find themselves with a real insurrection on their hands.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Baffert Returns With A Vengence

May 22, 2023

At one time the Kentucky Derby was the premier horse race in America. On the first Saturday in May the cream of American Thoroughbred three-year-olds gathered at Churchill Downs in Louisville from all parts of the country to contest the first leg of a series known as The Triple Crown. That is until the controlling executives of the track, as greedy a bunch of Oligarchs as to be found in America, have turned it into an invitational rather than an open race. They, for unreasonable reasons of their own, have excluded specific Trainers and horses from competing in the race.

The primary victim of their ire has been the Hall of Fame Trainer, Bob Baffer. Two years ago his colt Medina Spirit was a clear winner of the race. However, several days later the post race drug test revealed the presence of a banned substance. The Trainer was dumbstruck, he knew the drug had never been administered to the colt. To make it clear the drug is in no way a stimulant, it is an anti inflammatory drug injected to reduce heat and swelling in a joint, and if used too close to a race can lead to a breakdown in a joint that has not completely healed. Thorough investigation into where the drug, and it was a virtually minuscule amount, could have come from pointed to a salve that had been administered the colt for a skin rash. Nevertheless, the track proceeded to disqualify the colt and rule the Trainer off the track for two years. A World renowned race track veterinarian has assured me that you could rub a bucketful of the salve on the horse and he wouldn’t have run any faster. The amount actually found in the salve, which is made of a number of ingredients, amounted to a grain of pepper in a salt shaker. To put this all in layman’s terms, it was like disqualifying an Olympic Gold Medal Winner from victory because he was treating a case of Athlete’s Foot.

So for two years the most successful Trainer in America today, and a twice time trainer of a Triple Crown Winner, and numerous other various Triple Crown races, was excluded from the Derby. He did, however, have an entry in last Saturday’s Preakness that won the race, spoiling the Derby Winner’s chance at the Triple Crown, as he could only manage to finish third. As Baffert will have as many as three colts entered in the Belmont Stakes three weeks from now his chances of winning two legs of this year’s Triple Crown are good, and next year with his restriction at Churchill Down lifted, he’ll likely have one or more entrants in next year’s Derby and though the executives of Churchill Downs won’t like it, there’ll be nothing they can do about it, and the Derby will again be the premier race after a two year hiatus.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

If Americans were as serious about Politics

April 14, 2023

If Americans were as serious about Politics as they are about Sports Joe Biden would have been forgotten long ago. How this brain-dead excuse for a Leader ever became President boggles the mind of any intelligent man. He had a long unbroken record of zero accomplishment, and was a proven cheat, liar, and plagiarist. He replaced a man that had given the country four years of accomplishment in spite of all the obstacles thrown in his path, and if they were considered in the same way coaches are, he replaced a man with a winning record, though he had none of his own, and he hasn't won a game since. He has, in a very short time established the most dismal record of failure in the entire history of the U.S.Presidency. Those responsible for allowing, as well as aiding and abetting, this to happen are Scoundrels, and should be tarred and feathered, and run out of Politics forever!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Sixty-Two Years of Failure

February 8, 2023

I consider the necessary qualities desirable in a President of the United States to be Honesty, Responsibility, and Capability. Unfortunately, the last time a Democrat President measured up to these standards it was sixty-two years ago when Harry Truman occupied the Oval Office. Coming, in many ways unprepared for the massive responsibility of the Office he ascended to upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt, he ably stepped in and did a masterful job in steering the country through the ending days of WWII, into the Cold War conflict with Communist Russia, and meeting the treachery or Communist aggression in Korea. There was never a taint to his reputation for Honesty, his Responsibility was displayed for all to see in the plaque on his desk saying, "The buck stops here!" , and there is no question of his Capability in his handling of the jobs just described. Sadly, no Democrat that has occupied the Office since has even come close to measuring up to these standards.

The next Democrat President was John F. Kennedy, who assumed the Office with great expectations, and an adoring public and press. His Honesty was first on display when he broke his word to the Cuban Brigade on the beach at Bay of Pigs, when he pulled the promised air support, leaving them to fight and die unprotected, until out of ammunition, the survivors were forced to surrender. His Responsibility was subsequently on display, when he washed his hands of the matter, and blamed the disaster on the previous administration. His Capability was on display when he authorized the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam, which led to even more incapable leadership of the country until the tragic conclusion of that God forsaken war. In a strange manner of Deja Vu, he met his own death by assassination just a short while later.

Lyndon Johnson was hardly Kennedy's choice for Vice President, but he was reluctantly taken aboard in an attempt to lock up Southern votes in the expected close election. He played little part in the administration other than ceremonial until the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas which thrust him into the Presidency. He ignored the wise advice of his friend John Connelly to choose his own Cabinet, and went with the one he inherited from Kennedy, acquiring the worst Secretary in the history of the Defence and War Departments in the process. Though he won reelection over Goldwater due to cleverly playing on fears of Nuclear War, he turned out an abject failure. The Vietnam War became a quagmire and a disaster under his mishandling, and his attempt to give the country Guns and Butter resulted in the War on Poverty, under the guise of his Great Society Program, which destroyed the work ethic and morality in the Negro community of America. His failure was so complete he declined to run for reelection, and retired to his ranch in Texas. During his time in elected office, with his first election to the Senate by a fraudlent vote count, he became the first of Presidents to amass a fortune while in public office. History will regard him as one of the worst of Presidents, and he may well top the list in spite of strong competition from at least three following Presidents.

Republican Richard Nixon won the Presidency in a landslide victory over Democrat Hubert Humphrey, not once but twice, only to be done in by his mishandling of the Watergate break in, and had to retire in disgrace, leaving Gerald Ford in the office until he was swept out by the election of Jimmy Carter, a former peanut farmer and Governor of Georgia. The office turned out to be well above Carter's level of capability, and all chance that he would win a second term were dashed by the Iran hostage crisis and the subsequent disastrous rescue mission which was a total failure. Though he was a hypocrite in some ways, he was honest, and retired to his peanut farm to live out his days teaching Sunday School and working to insure honest elections around the Globe, though he remained ominously silent about the most recent Presidential election here, the most fraudulent in U.S. History.

With his overwhelming victory over Carter, Ronald Reagan restored faith in the Presidency, and no sooner had his hand come off the Bible after he completed the Oath of Office, that the Iranian hostages were released and flying back to America. His brilliant eight years gave the country renewed prosperity and respect, a goal for all future Presidents to aspire. Retiring into his Sunset years at his ranch in California he spent his remaining days riding his horse around the ranch and doing chores, a lifestyle he relished and well deserved. His Vice President, George H.W. Bush followed him into office, only to be undone by the Independent Third Party candidacy of Ross Perot, that siphoned off enough Republican votes, to throw the victory to the draft dodger from Arkansas, Democrat Bill Clinton, in his run for reelection.

War heros Washington, Tyler, Grant, and Eisenhower have all advanced to the Presidency, but for the first time in history, America elected a draft dodger, the Good Time Charlie from Arkansas, William Jefferson 'Slick Willy' Clinton. He was assisted in his first election by the third-party candidacy of Ross Perot, who siphoned off enough votes from George H.W. Bush, to throw the victory to him. He gave us an administration ripe with scandal due to his promiscuity land the machinations of his evil wife Hillary. His desire to be liked caused him to swing to the middle of the road politically, and his compromises gave the country relative stability and prosperity, and he left office a popular figure. Having failed to accumulate any significant wealth during his time as Governor and President, someone is his organisation figured a way to parley political influence into a fortune, and he and his wife have lived high on the hog ever since. Truman said, “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” Clinton became the second President to attain this goal, and he certainly wasn't to be the last. The Hillary Clinton foundation is the bedrock upon which this lifestyle is maintained, and it's all tax free, an influence peddling and protection racket that is the envy of every consigliere that ever lived.

Following Clinton into the Oval Office was George W. Bush, Republican, and son of the former President. He gave the World eight solid years of disaster. First was the 9-11 attack, more attributable to the Intelligence failures of the previous administration than his, that threw the nation into chaos. His war in Iraq, begun on the totally fraudulent claim that Saddam Hussein possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, destabilized the entire Middle East, with deaths running into the hundreds of thousands and causing millions to relocate in search of a safer life. The mass immigration of hundreds of thousands from the Middle East into Europe is a consequence. Thousands of our military personnel gave up their lives or were shot to pieces in this useless war and now Bush shows up for photo ops with survivors, and hosts barbecues at his ranch for them. He is nothing less than a War Criminal, as are several others in his administration. He should be despised and reviled by every decent American Citizen. He is without doubt one of America's worst Presidents. He did not grow wealthy in office though, which is one of the few good things to be said about him, but then his family was already wealthy.

Following Bush into the Oval Office was the greatest enigma ever encounter in U.S.politics. Barack Hussein Obama hadn't a single name familiar in America. His place of birth has never been accurately established. He claims he was born in Hawaii but his birth certificate from there has never passed the smell test. His relatives in Kenya insist he was born there. The legitimacy of the whereabouts of his birth could likely have been put to rest had President George W. Bush directed the FBI and CIA to investigate, but, as in so many ways he failed our country, he failed to order this investigation. Though Obama passed himself off as African American he was anything but. A legitimate African American was either brought to this country as a slave, having endured the dreaded Middle Passage, or are a descendent of one, and were born in this country. Obama's father was a scholarship student from Kenya belonging to a family that had never experienced slavery. He abandoned his wife and child, returning to Africa, and only saw his son once after that. His mother remarried an Indonesian Muslim after that, if she had ever indeed married to Barack's father in the first place, and Barack spent much of his childhood in Indonesia going to Muslim schools and attending Muslim religious services until he was returned to Hawaii in his teenage years to be raised and supported by his maternal grandmother, the breadwinner of his Hawaiian family. After he graduated from college, records of which have been sealed from investigation, he moved to Chicago to find employment as a Community Organizer, until he was elected to the Illinois Senate while passing himself off as African American. His tenure there was undistinguished, as was his next stop in the U.S.Senate. From there his next stop was the Presidency, even with a background of association with two of the most Un-American individuals to be found in our country. In doing so he defeated two of the most despicable individuals ever found in the Republican Party, John McCain and Mitt Romney. He utilized his eight years in office to subtly destroy American greatness.  He appointed to the Judiciary political hacks, willing to render decisions on political grounds, and ignore the Constitution completely. He forced into retirement scores of competent military officers, advancing toadies and those willing to confirm his policies, which has given us the most most incompetent and incapable leadership in the entire history of our country. He disparaged our country in the eyes of the World by his public advertising of America's failures, ignoring the preponderance of successes our country has achieved. He left office having amassed a massive fortune that could never be accounted for by the salaries he had earned in all his previous jobs and positions, becoming the third President to accumulate a massive fortune in politics.

Obama's heir apparent, the evil Hillary Clinton, though favored in major polls and by the media, was surprisingly, and fortunately, defeated by Republican Donald Trump, which was a massive leap forward in restoringng America's greatness. Trump tried with might and maine to fulfill his campaign promise to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN but was foiled at every turn by enemies both within and without government. He learned to his dismay that the government agencies of the Legal, Intelligence, and Judicial Departments were in many cases corrupt and working against him. Much of their activity was not only malicious, but criminal, if not outright traitorous in many instances. In spite of all these obstacles the economy was soon booming, Americans were prospering, drug trafficking was held to a minimum, control of the Southern Border against the inflow of illegal aliens was becoming more and more effective, respect for America by our friends and foes was on the rise, and I could continue citing positive achievements, but all this was obvious to Americans with their eyes open, in spite of a constantly lying press, and he should have been a shoo in for reelection but for the most fraudulent election in America's History.

To the fore as Democrat candidate running against Trump in his reelection campaign came the unlikely Joe Biden, a former U.S. Senator, and Vice President under Obama. That Biden was even considered for this candidacy boggles the imagination. He was twice rejected decisively as a candidate before, he is a proven cheat, plagiarist, and liar, not to mention his bizarre prediction for pawing females of all ages when in range of his clutches and sniffing their hair. That he has amassed a fortune for himself and his family by parlaying political influence much as in the manner of the Clintons, proves again the certainty of Truman's assessment of getting rich in politics. Previous to Biden's Presidency it had been said that any American boy could grow up to be President regardless of humble beginnings, such as Jackson and Lincoln, that were born in log cabins, and proved brave and forthright in their future lives. Now it is indeed for certain this is true when a man with such obviously disqualifying characteristics as Biden's can be elected to the office. Well at least declared the winner, regardless the suspicions of fraud that rose after late election night peculiarities and in the following days. Nevertheless, Biden was declared the winner and since his swearing in over two years ago, everything positive in our country is in decline. The economy, law and order, drug interdiction, border control, and relations with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, just to name a few. How much worse it will get is anybody's guess, and many think we on the brink of WWIII. This all totals up to sixty-two years of failure by Democrat Presidents and their administrations, and it will be at least sixty-four before we have opportunity to remedy the situation by electing an honest, responsible, and capable Republican President. God help us!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Happy New Year!

January 2, 2023

Only minutes into the new year Ukraine unleashed a missile attack on a Russian ammunition depot near the Eastern border of the country. Fortunately, for Ukraine, a building adjacent was being used to house Russian soldiers, and it was demolished in the blast. Russia, that lies about everything, admits to sixty-three fatalities, which means the toll is well over one-hundred, with casualties probably in the three-hundred range. This is the one bright spot in an otherwise dismal new year, though hardly one for innocent Russians being conscripted to fight an unjust war they have no heart for, that's killing them by the scores daily.

In the meantime Russia continues her war on innocent Ukrainian civilians with missile barrages into populated areas of major cities. Iran continues to jail and murder her citizens that are peacefully protesting government suppression of women. They also continue to supply Russia with the missiles that are raining down on Ukraine. That the rulers of Russia and Iran are the most evil living today is inarguable. Had the U.S. still a real leader, with assistance of Israel which has, the leadership of Iran, along with her nuclear facilities and weapons factories, could be wiped out in one fell swoop. Sadly, none of that will happen.

In the U.S., our country continues to deteriorate with every tick of the clock, while our President, wholly responsible for the deterioration, basks in the Sun on a Caribbean island. The one hopeful event is the takeover of House majority by Republicans. Sadly, with the Senate still in Democrat control, little can be done until a new President is elected.

In Europe the situation grows worse by the day due to the shortage of energy and heating supplies, and all because of their shortsightedness in relying on Russian supply, while refugees continue to pour in due to the destabilization of the Middle East which was caused by the fraudulent war on Iraq initiated by the George W. Bush administration and based on a total lie.

China continues to grow more powerful by the day with the rest of the world unwilling or powerless to stop them.

All in all there's not much to celebrate, and if you are a religious person it's time to pray fervently for the future of Civilization and the World.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2023

Turn Out The Light, The Party's Over!

December 17, 2022

As the revelations from Twitter continue to come to light it is becoming more and more obvious that the fraud involved in the Presidential election of 2020 seen prior was only the tip of the iceberg. The lying expounders of The Big Lie hoax have become rather silent as a consequence. Honest Americans are looking forward to the forthcoming Congressional investigations in anticipation of the additional fraud that will come to light.

All this should have been ammunition for the Trump campaign to use in propelling Donald Trump back to the White House, where he would be now but for the most fraudulent election in American History. Sadly the likelihood of this diminishes by the hour. Donald Trump has gone into the most incredible self destruct mode  since Gary Hart, when asked about his reputed womanizing, denied it, then dared the reporter to "put a tail on me", only to be caught with his girlfriend just days later. At the revelation of Twitter's first release,  Trump's demanded that all laws, including the Constitution, should be suspended, and he should immediately be returned to the White House.

This was obviously the most asinine statement he'd made in a lifetime, and as a consequence his support has been evaporating by the hour. Then he comes out with an "Important announcement ", which turns out to be the sale of some sort of crypto cards depicting him in heroic attire at $99 per cards, and the evaporation of his support accelerates. The fact that these cards almost immediately sold out, garnering Trump a cool million bucks, first baffled me, and then I realized people are buying these cards as an investment, hoping their value will appreciate, as has happened with many baseball cards. Individuals I have spoken with, formerly staunch Trump supporters, confirm my own feelings, and some of his most trusted and visible supporters are also expressing dismay at his actions k. lt looks to me like it's all over but the crying.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

What You Got To Say Now

December 13, 2022

What have you got to say now Pence? With the revelations of collusion and conspiracy pouring out of Twitter it becomes more and more obvious that the Presidential election of 2020 was completely fraudulent. Of course Donald Trump knew that in the early morning hours of the day following election day, and has maintained it ever since, in spite of Fake News, Democrats, and RINOS calling it the Big Lie. When Congress convenes in January, with an honest party controlling investigations, it is a near certainty that when executives of other social communication platforms are questioned under oath, that similar fraudulent activities will be uncovered.

The last day to possibly stop the fraud from being successful was January 6th of 2021. In spite of objections to the returns of several States, the Vice President certified the fraudulent results, and Joe Biden proceeded to be sworn in as President on January 20th. Pence declared, when questioned, that the law was clear, and he had no alternative than to certify. In other words, Pence is saying he had to certify the fraud regardless. His action only exposes him as the coward that he certainly is. Had he refused to certify, serious review and investigation would have taken place, and the election results of several States sent back to their Legislatures for critical review. Now he has the gaul to fancy himself as Presidential material. How could you possibly trust a man like that? We know his wife doesn't, she doesn't allow him in a room where unescorted women are present, and insists on always going along. Like many other lifetime Politicians, I wouldn't trust him with my back turned!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

What Really Happened

December 11, 2022

What really happened in the Presidential Election of 2020, the World wonders. This site gives you the most succinct description of the fraudulent Presidential election of 2020 by examination of gambling odds as anything I've seen.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/12/01/las-vegas-oddsmakers-are-never-wrong/

No one picks up on a fix quicker than the odds makers because they stand to lose the most in case of fraud. If the identity of the individuals that made huge bet on Joe Biden to win when the odds of a Donald Trump victory were at the highest were revealed it would lead straight to the heart of the conspiracy to fix the outcome.
Donald Trump knew the victory had been stolen from him during the early morning hours of Nov 4th, and has steadfastly maintained this ever since, in spite of all fake news sites, Democrats, and many RINOS labeling it The Big Lie.

Though many allegations of fraud had been made prior to election day, they started to pour in after the early morning turn around of electoral votes on November 4th. The election would not be certified until the following January 6th, and Trump wouldn't remain President until Inauguration Day on January 20th, why didn't he immediately order the Attorney General to fully investigate all these allegations, after all, he was still head of the Executive Branch of government? Well he didn't, and the opportunity for a full investigation is  long gone. Subsequently, Joe Biden was sworn in as President, and the country is suffering from the most corrupt, and incompetent government our country has ever known.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Trump Was Right

December 6, 2022

The revelation of the conspiracy between censorship officials at Twitter and the FBI and Democrat Party officials only adds to the mountain of evidence that the election of Joe Biden was replete with fraud.

President Donald Trump was right to advise his Vice President not to certify the election, which would have forced a deeper investigation than the non-investigation that had taken place that far after the election. The Vice President, Mike Pence, however, exhibited his basic cowardly nature, and approved the certification of the fraud. Now the brain addled Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office and the country has never been so ill run, with disaster looming on numerous fronts.

In the meantime, rather than addressing the criminality involved in that election, the Department of Justice and the FBI focus their objective on arresting supporters of Donald Trump, and fabricating charges against him. The Department of Justice and the FBI are now the prime criminal organizations in the country and every honest American should realize that.

The late Hunter Thompson was right when he said: “Never believe the first thing an FBI agent tells you about anything - especially not if he seems to believe you are guilty of a crime.”

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

I Wonder Who, Who Wrote The Book Of Lies?

December 4, 2022

Of all the Attorney Generals in the history of the United States, none have risen to as high a level of corruption as has William 'Bill' Barr. Coming into the Trump Administration on the heels of the incompetent Jeff Sessions, and the corrupt Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder, he was perceived as a breath of fresh air. After all, he was a lifelong Republican, and supposedly a man of great integrity and dedication to the law. In actuality he was nothing but a plant by RINOS and the Deep State, though it took some time for that to become apparent. For awhile he appeared to be a Trump partisan, fooling many Democrats, but that's hardly a surprise, for Barr is a clever man and Democrats hardly the brightest lights to be found in Washington.

Some Democrats called for his impeachment, further attesting to Barr's suversive ability. The first evidence of his fraudulent intentions came when he assured the American People that Jeffrey Epstein had committed suicide in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Then came the Presidential Election of 2020,  the most suspicious in all American History. Prior to the election Barr had instructed his field agents to investigate anything they perceived as suspicious, subtly indicating to them that it really wasn't necessary. As the election swung first to Donald Trump, then in the wee hours of that night and in subsequent days, to victory for Joe Biden, allegations of fraud poured in,  but de Tar Baby, in this case the Attorney General, he doan say nuttin! Then when pressed a few days later, he declared that though there had been irregularities, they were insufficient to affect the outcome of the Biden victory. A quite remarkable conclusion from a complete non-investigation, and he's continued to spout that line ever since at every opportunity.

Now, seemingly out of the dark of night, an honest man has taken control of the social communication medium of Twitter, and has released previously hidden internal communications disclosing full blown conspiracy between Twitter, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Democrat Party to suppress all information detrimental to the Biden campaign prior to the 2020 election. It now appears highly likely that this collusion was also taking place with other social communication platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. A complete and thorough investigation is now to be expected from the incoming Congress. As a consequence of this explosive disclosure, I wonder what the Fat Fraud Barr will have to say now?

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

There's A Sucker Born Every Minute

December 2, 2022

Currency was at one time made of metal, which gave it intrinsic value. Then came paper currency which was backed by Gold, guarantying it's worth. More recently it is backed by the integrity of issuing governments, giving it value so long as trust in the government remained. The failure of paper currency backed by various governments, however, is replete with horror stories of dramatic failure. Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic come immediately to mind. Then along came an entirely new form of money, Cryptocurrency, which few had the slightest idea of what it was. It became the refuge of swindlers and con men, and greedy investors around the world flocked to it and have subsequently been relieved of billions. The recent failure of FTX, based in the Bahamas, a haven for swindles and illegalities for centuries, is now dominating the news.  

The CEO of this cryptocurrency exchange was the U.S. born and educated, Sam Bankman-Fried, who has just replaced Bernie Madoff as the greatest con man of all time. He is presently being detained in the Bahamas by their investigative regulators, though the fortunes invested appears long gone and unlikely to ever be recovered. Where these missing billions have gone is a problem for various governments to sort out. That various individuals involved with FTX have squirreled this money away in third world havens without extradition treaties is a distinct possibility. Bankman-Fried may well be detained, but unless he is firmly confined to a cell, escape from the Bahamas would be easily accomplished. The same fast speed boats that once ran narcotics to the U.S. mainland could easily be put to the same use to sprint him away, though the U.S. would hardly be a refuge. Liaison with an ocean going yacht would be his best bet, which could then carry him anywhere in the world. We'll see how all this plays out, and if necessary, we'll follow up with an article titled On The Lam.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Dishonor in the Court

November 30, 2022

The U.S. Tax Code is complex, and in the case of most large businesses requires the assistance of accountants and tax attorneys to insure compliance, as well as to maximize company profitability after taxes. Tax returns are then submitted to the Internal Revenue Service with payment. If the filing is judged correct that ends the matter. In many cases, however, there are questions to be resolved, requiring conferences between company and IRS representatives, followed if unresolved by a tax audit. If still unresolved the issue goes to Tax Court for final resolution. If it is determined that fraud is involved, the culprit may be fined and possibly sent to prison. In other words, the IRS is the Federal Government's authority to insure compliance with the Federal Tax Laws, and to insure collection. Congress is empowered to make the law but once done, it becomes the responsibility of the IRS. It is certainly not the responsibility of Congress to review tax documents that have been properly filed, approved, and paid.

This is what makes the recent ruling by the Supreme Court to grant the Congresses' request to have access to to the tax records of former President, Donald Trump so absolutely outrageous. In the first place a request of this nature has never been granted. This is a move by a highly partisan Congress to brand President Trump as a tax dodger by labeling his legitimate deductions as fraud by taking advantage of so called loopholes. That these deductions are completely in accordance the law makes no difference to Democrats, who will spin it in partisan fashion to their advantage.

Our Constitutional government is established with three separate legal branches to protect the citizens of the country from governmental outrage by one of the other branches. They are Administrative, Legislative, and Judicial. That the first two have been corrupted beyond belief is glaringly obvious. This makes it the responsibility of the Judicial Branch to prevent this outrage, but they have now abdicated that responsibility by approving this request, throwing all three branches into a state of corruption.

That the Justices that voted to approve this measure are devoid of honor is without doubt. They are not only devoid of honor, they are unfit to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, or for that matter, any court whatsoever. Once the new Congress is seated in January, they should be immediately impeached and removed from the court.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Simply The Best

November 22, 2022

Donald Trump is inarguably the best President since Ronald Reagan. In spite of having to fight conspiracies, lies, fraudulent attacks, and malfeasance, both from inside and outside government, he managed to a great degree to restore American Greatness in only one term in office.

To start with, his election saved the country from eight years of the corrupt Hillary Clinton, an accomplishment that should have earned him lifetime acclaim. In addition he secured the Southern Border, and cut the flow of illegal drugs across that border to a trickle. He removed the bottleneck of government regulations that allowed business and industry to thrive. Unemployment fell to it's lowest level in years, and employment across the ethnic spectrum rose to record highs. Inflation was held in check, and tax revenues rose due to lower rates of taxation. China was held responsible for the economic crimes perpetrated against American business and industry for years, and tariffs were raised to compensate. The domestic petroleum industry, which employs hundreds of thousands, achieved record production that keep fuel prices low with a surplus available for export. Deadbeat NATO allies were exposed, forcing them to pay their promised share of NATO expenses. A strong foreign policy held enemies in check and respect for our country was restored among allies.

When external threats to our citizens were discovery, the threats were neutralized, and our enemies trembled in fear when US drones were reported overhead. Then came the flu virus know as Covid 19, accidentally released from a Chinese biological warfare laboratory to spread havoc around the entire World. Chaos and confusion were the order of the day, and lies and exaggerations about the seriousness of the infection allowed voting regulations for the upcoming election to be drastically changed, often illegally, but the changes were allowed to remain in place. Mail in balloting and ballot harvesting led to irregularities and fraud on a massive scale. These changes were primarily in so called swing states, and to the detriment of the sitting President. All this, however, was still insufficient to stop the reelection of Donald Trump.

In the wee hours of that night everything changed in the swing states, with Trump holding onto a slim lead, large blocks of votes appeared from virtually nowhere over the next days and weeks, to swing the election in favor of Joe Biden. There should have been an investigation in massive detail of all the  numerous irregularities reported, but the tar baby, in this case the Department of Justice, he don't do nothing. And why not, you inquire? Why because the most corrupt and complicit Attorney General in our nation's history chose not to. He issued a statement, however, that though there were irregularities, they were insufficient to offset the result. How he arrived at this conclusion as a result of his noninvestigation should have bogged the mind of any thinking man, but Democrats accepted it as Gospel.

When you realize this is the same man that told you that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it becomes even more obvious that he is a liar of the first order. Then, on January 6th of 2021, the last opportunity to force an investigation of the result went out the window when the cowardly Vice President chose to accept the fraudulent election result, Joe Biden was sworn in as President and everything, Democracy included has been going downhill since.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

The Devil Went Down To Georgia

November 6, 2022

The Devil Went Down To Georgia was a #1 Country hit in 1979, doing very well on the Pop Charts as well. The song starts out with the title line, followed by, "looking for a soul to steal!" Well just last week, the Devil being unavailable, the Democrats sent their best possible replacement there, looking for an election to steal. The replacement they chose was none other than Barack Hussein Obama, and he was there to support their party's two race baiting candidates for Governor and Senator of the State.

Their candidate for Governor is Stacey Abrams, an African American with little to qualify her for the job other than she ran once before and lost, only to declare, once defeat was assured, that the election was stolen from her. Her only other claim to fame is writing juicy romance novels, but nothing to rival the greatest romance story of all time penned by a Georgian, Gone With The Wind. Her opponent Brian Kemp seems to be holding a secure lead in the race so it may soon be back to writing for her keep, other than continued race baiting, which has made !multimillionaires out of the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Obama himself.

The Democrat candidate for the Senate is present Senator, Raphael Warnock, also an African American, sometimes Preacher, and full time race baiter. His Republican opponent is a well known Georgia hero and Heisman Trophy winner, Herschel Walker. Walker is also an African American and a legitimate one,. He was born in Georgia in 1962, his parents are descendants of slaves in Georgia, and their ancestors were captured and enslaved in Africa, marched to the coast in a coffle, and held in a barracoon until a Slaver arrived to purchase them for transport to the New World. Those that survived treacherous Middle Passage, were then resold in Eastern and Southern port cities for a life of labor on the farms and plantations of the U.S.

It is highly ironic that the Democrat Party chose a complete phony to stump for Walker's opponent. Obama is anything but an African American, no one in his family was ever a slave, nor made the treacherous Middle Passage, or any of the other things that qualifies a legitimate African American. His father came to the U.S. as a scholarship student from his birthplace in Kenya. He impregnated Obama's mother and they were married shortly thereafter, though his marriage to his first wife had not been terminated, making him a Bigamist, and Obama illegitimate. Obama was born the following August, and a birth certificate attesting to his birth in Hawaii exists. There is suspicion, however of fraud in many quarters, and that his real birthplace was Kenya, which would have made him ineligible for the Presidency. Regardless whether or not he was born in Hawaii, a black man, mixed-race in Obama's case, is not automatically an African American just because he happens to be living in America.  The con game Obama has played that he is an African American has gone on long enough, and it's time for someone to call him out on it, and who better than Herschel Walker.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Goodnight Irene

October 26, 2022

The debate last night between Dr. Mehmet Oz and Lt. Governor John Fetterman for the open Senate seat from Pennsylvania was anything but that. It only exposed Fetterman's complete unfitness for the position. Fetterman had suffered a debilitating stroke several months ago and in spite of offering evidence from a Doctor that he is fit and able for the job, it only exposed the fact that this Doctor a nothing but a Quack, and was probably hired at Rent a Doc. Fetterman's hearing, comprehension, and speech are impaired, and full recovery and the time necessary are a huge question mar. The State of Pennsylvania can not take the chance of sending a man in this condition to Washington.

In fact, sending Fetterman to the Senate would only be adding insult to injury, the injury being the fraud sitting in the Oval Office, whose mental condition is as bad as Fetterman's, or worse. Unfortunately,short of an Act of God, the country is stuck with Joe Biden for two more years, if in fact, the country will last that long under his maladministration.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

The Creep

October 16, 2022

The disgusting, perverted behavior of President Joe was on full display Friday in California. While posing for a photo op after delivering some sort of speech at a community college, the Creep that is Joe Biden appeared. Like a Vampire who rises from his crypt after the setting of the Sun to go in search of attractive young female victims to sate his thirst for human blood, the Creepy Joe Biden appears whenever he's in arm's length of an attractive young female, and he grabs, gropes, and sniffs various parts of their bodies in his perverted lust. His comments while engaging in these activities are often bizarre, and his victims often exhibit signs of embarrassment, discomfort, or disgust. The examples of this perverted behavior are so numerous that they can't be discouted as accidental occurrence, when it is so obviously his Modus Operandi. While our domestic fake news media chooses to ignore these episodes, the rest of the World does not, and he is rightfully held up to ridicule in news outlets abroad, and in social media everywhere.

His disgusting behavior is not only in full view of the public, but has obviously been going on in his own home. A picture is in existence of his present wife Jill, sitting on his lap when she was son Hunter's thirteen-year-old babysitter, or was it a lap dance instead? After his first wife's unfortunate death in a traffic accident, who does he marry a year later but former babysitter,, twenty-five-year-old Jill. They have between them one daughter who is in and out of drug rehab.and a diary she left behind in a halfway house reveals she was made to shower with her father at a young age. Growing up in such a dysfunctional environment may well account for her later problems in life. There is also a picture o of him kissing his teenage granddaughter full on the mouth while on stage. That is normal?

In short, he is unfit to occupy the Office of President because of these acts of public indecency, as well as myriad other reasons including senility, incompetence, serial lying, dishonesty, corruption, and the fact that he may not have been honestly elected in the first place, though that may never be conclusively proven, it remains fact to the vast majority of intelligent, honest American Citizen.

Since the Biden Administration assumed control of our government it  has brought the country to the brink of disaster. They have taken a strong economy, a secure Southern border, a robust petroleum industry, a respected foreign policy, and a government as honest as President Donald Trump was able to make it under the difficult circumstances he encountered, into failure in every respect.  Our citizens are facing record inflation of a 40 year high; our Southern border is throw open to everything and everybody that wishes to cross including drugs of all descriptions, and potential criminals and terrorists from god knows where; a prosperous petroleum industry scuttled for the pipe dream of the Green New Deal; our foreign policy is a joke and neither friend nor foe respects us; and a government corrupt to the core that no honest citizen has any faith in whatsoever.

In the early days of flying, a tailspin meant certain death to the pilot until one courageous Major took his aircraft up above 15,000 feet and deliberately put it into a tailspin, determined to solve the problem of recovery or die in trying. Successful, the solution was taught from then on to every student pilot, and what once was once a death sentence became a simple maneuver to recover. Our country is now in a tailspin and no single Democrat has the solution, most especially the President. Vote for a Democrat in the forthcoming election at your peril, and the peril of our once great nation!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Please Mister Putin!

October 4, 2022

Please Mister Custer is a comical song released in 1960 that supposes to be the plea of one of General Custer's troopers who had a bad dream the night before and fears death and disaster in the operation planned for the following day. Of course it is a matter of historical fact that Custer led a battalion of cavalry into the Little Big Horn where they all met their deaths in battle with the Indians. This seems to be the similar attitude of the Russian citizens being conscripted into the army to join the fight against the inoffensive neighboring country of Ukraine. Though certain death is not necessarily the fate that awaits them there, it is a high probability. Since they would not be fighting an invading army, or repulsing one, it is hardly a patriotic war to them and consequently they are fleeing the country like rats leaving a sinking ship. No reasonable man would feel otherwise, but those that can't flee are being forced to fight for the vanity and ambition of the evil dictator ruling the country, Vladimir Putin, who cares not a damn for the lives of his countrymen. There are many Russians that support Putin's war in Ukraine, but they change their minds in a hurry if they discover they will actually be sent there.

Though deposing Putin would be  a good, solution there seems to be little way this can be done at present, leaving assassination as the ideal means of ending this evil war. This would not only end the war, but remove one of the most evil despots in world history. It might also give Russia opportunity to become part of the civilized world. Let us pray that some honorable man soon finds the courage and the means to carry out this noble act.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

The Cult of Thuggee Reborn

October 3, 2022

One of the most infamous and evil organizations ever known to man was the Cult of Thuggee in India. They were a professional gang of robbers and murderers who fell in with travelers, befriended and gained their confidence, then executed their evil plan and buried the bodies. They professed to worship the Hindu Goddess, Kali. They were eventually eliminated by English authorities and the menace was ended. Another organization exist today of similar depth of evil in the Religious Police of Iran.

A young Iranian Kurdish woman was apprehended just over three weeks ago by these Religious Police for improperly wearing a head scarf. She died a few days later, reported by Iranian authorities as consequence of a heart attack, but in actuality was murdered by these filthy perverts. As no autopsy was conducted we have no idea what abominations she was subjected to prior to her painful death.

Protests have erupted all across the country since as the government makes no effort to apprehend or punish the murderers. As a consequence the protests have only grown larger, and government actions to suppress the protests have been to murder over fifty protesters. Foreign denunciations of these government actions only reinforces the well known fact that Iran is ruled by as evil a regime as exists on this Earth. For the good of the unfortunate people of Iran,  and the benefit of World Civilization, this unmitigated evil such as is represented by the leaders of Iran, and especially in the person of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, should be blotted from the face of the Earth  In the meantime our own government is negotiating with Iran to restore the Nuclear Treaty, that had been cancelled by President Trump, which would allow Iran to develop a nuclear bomb, with which their avowed purpose is to destroy the State of Israel.

It is well known that Iran is one of the greatest sponsors of world terrorism. The director of this evil program was once Qasem Soleimani. He was assassinated in a targeted American drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq, on the orders of U.S. President Donald Trump. Subsequently an arrest warrant was issued by an Iraqi court for President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of Soleimani. The arrest warrant was for a charge of premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty on conviction. A reasonable response to this outrage would be to eliminate the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, by the same effective method by which the World was rid of Qasem Soleimani. When we had a President with the guts and determination to act decisively in benefit of Civilization and World Peace this could have been possible, but under the present administration of incompetence, ignorance, and weakness, nothing positive can be expected.

In the meantime the murder of Iranian protesters will continue and the repressive actions of the Iranian government, and the perverts of their Religious Police will continue unabated, and the civilized world will continue to shudder in horror.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

September 30, 2022

And so is a country! Joe Biden never had much of a mind to begin with, it's a proven fact he cheated his way through law school, and that's no sign of superior intelligence nor integrity. A man who cheats in law school is only continuing a habit established much earlier in life. He graduated college and law school with undistinguished grades, then remarkably, ran successfully for Senator in Delaware at the age of 29.

It was during this campaign he established a lifelong reputation for lying. In the Senate he was little more than a political hack, going for the most part in the direction the political winds were blowing. He was possessed with enormous vanity however, and to be honest, I've never seen a speaker more enchanted with the sound of his own voice. This characteristic inspired him to run for President twice, only to be humiliated in both efforts. It was during these campaigns his lack of original thought was revealed, when he was exposed for plagiarism and his numerous lies. This should have ended his career on the national stage, but Delaware astoundingly kept returning him to the Senate. Then along comes Barack Hussein Obama, the mystery man from God knows where, who chose Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate. Successful in the election, Biden's unremarkable eight years were noted for little more than his numerous gaffs. He didn't let the grass grow under him during all these years in Washington however, and began accumulating massive wealth for himself and his family. In the next Presidential go round, Democrat Hillary Clinton, the most evil woman ever involved in national politics, was defeated by Republican Donald Trump.

The next four years were distinguished primarily by two things, a successful national policy established by President Donald Trump, and unending and traitorous efforts by Democrats, the Deep State, RINOS, liberals, the media, big tech, and many others, to discredit and destroy him and his administration. In choosing a candidate to run against Donald Trump in his reelection campaign, and with Hillary Clinton being somewhat out of favor with Democrats, they reached deep into the well of failure and lack of accomplishment and chose Joe Biden. Realizing his deteriorated state of mind, they cleverly kept him locked in his basement bunker, while continuing their lying and slanderous attacks on Donald Trump. In spite of all this it became obvious during the afternoon of election day, that Donald Trump was winning. This called for fraud on a monumental scale during the dark of night to produce enough fake votes to swing the election back to Joe Biden. Though there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fraudulent and suspicious activities reported, no real investigation was ever conducted, and Biden was declared President. Hardly had Biden been inaugurated that the serious state of his declining mind was exposed, and he was not up to the task of either President or Leader of the Free World, and it becomes more and more obvious almost every time he's in front of a TV camera.

Now the state of our once great country is little better than the State of Joe Biden's mind, and it grows worse by the day. It has now become obvious to everyone with a level of intelligence above moron, that the administration of Donald Trump was a success, and that of Joe Biden a fraud and a disaster.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Time For A Real Revolution

September 29, 2022

Czar Nicholas, II, heredity ruler of Russia, was deposed in late 1917, just following the tragedy of WWI, leading to a Soviet takeover of the government. The Czar, his wife and children, were then held captive for some months until they were brutally murdered, disfigured beyond recognition, and buried in an unmarked grave in a forest. Unmitigated evil has ruled the land ever since, with the exception of the period when Mikhail Gorbachev was leader from 1985 to 1991, when he attempted to steer Russia into the civilized world. Unfortunately he failed, and Russia regressed to the previous state, and unmitigated evil again rules the land.

The current leader, Vladimir Putin, a man of boundless lust for power and fame, has launched an unprovoked attack upon the peaceful neighboring country of Ukraine in order to restore boundaries of previous Russian domination. His expectations of quick and easy victory "ganged aft aglay", and seven months into the war his army is in a quagmire of death and destruction.

Unwilling to admit defeat and loss of his absolute power, he is sending more and more Russian soldiers into almost certain death in desperate hope he can turn the tide of defeat. That the majority of the Russian people are opposed to this unjust war becomes more and more obvious every day. Russian soldiers, when opportunity presents, are surrendering to the Ukraine Army to escape Putin's slaughterhouse. Mournful church bells toll the funerals of the tens of thousands soldiers slain all across Russia, as parents, wives, lovers, children, siblings, and friends weep and moan. Thousands of families and conscription age men are rushing to the borders of neighboring countries to flee this evil, and protests are erupting all across the land. The borders are being closed and eligible men snatched and impressed into the army.

The protests are violently suppressed, with arrests of participants, including women, ruthlessly carried out. Jail terms of ten years are being threatened to all men attempting to avoid conscription, and soldiers that surrender. The time has come for a real revolution in Russia, all patriotic citizens should rise and strike at every opportunity. Putin and all his henchmen should be assassinated or murdered. All Russian officials aiding and abetting Putin's ruthlessly orders are deserving of the same fate. Let the reserves just called up turn on their officers and slay them, and surrender en mass to the Ukrainian Army. Let the evil cancer of Soviet Communism be wiped out in the same brutal manner as  was the murder of the Romanovs when it came to power. Bury every one of these evil scum slain in unmarked graves as befitting of enemies of civilization, and traitors to the Russian people. God damn the lot of them to Hell!

The time has come for every civilized country in the World to turn upon the Russian government with every means at hand. Turn also on every country aiding Russia in any way, whether it be supplying arms and ammunition, or continuing trade with this evil empire. Seize every ship upon the high seas flying the Russian flag or carrying Russian cargo. Sell these vessels and cargos for the benefit of Ukraine, and if unable to do so, torpedo and sink them. Though many are too blind or stupid to understand, Putin's Russia is at war with the free world and must be obliterated from the face of the Earth by any and all means possible!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

For Whom The Bell Tolls

September 27, 2022

 "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

The mournful sound of church bells tolling is now heard all across Russia. They are tolling the funeral services of the forty-thousand Russian soldiers killed in Vladimir Putin's war against the peaceful neighboring country of Ukraine. These men have not died repulsing a foreign aggressor, nor in counter attack to regain terrority lost in battle, no, they have all died in battle for the vanity and monstrous ambitions of their Dictator, Vladimir Putin, and they have all died in vain.

Russian losses in Ukraine have been staggering with over four times as many Russian soldiers killed as Ukrainians. Their wounded numbers are on the same scale, as are losses in weapons, ammunition, tanks and military vehicles, aircraft, and missilery. Replacement troops are becoming more and more difficult to find, with the jails emptied of prisoners willing to fight for a pardon, young men snatched off the streets in press gang fashion, and now a mobilization of 300,000 reserves. The unfortunate citizens have no heart for the fight, as wives and sweethearts are unwilling to see their men, mothers their sons, sisters their brothers, and children their fathers, perish in Putin's meatgrinder war. Russin men of military age are scrambling to get out of Russia by any means possible. Most legal exits have now been closed and the only means of escape now will be across little watched and guarded borders, but I expect thousands will continue to try. Putin has now toppled from his pedestal as the  most admired man in Russia to become the most hated. Hundreds of thousands would welcome opportunity to put a bullet in his black heart. If someone has  opportunity and courage to execute this noble act, even at his own peril, he would immediately become the greatest hero in all of Russian History.

Putin in his madness has come to resemble Hitler in his willingness to destroy his own country if his goals are not met. He is now threatening Nuclear War, not only against Ukraine, but countries supplying her with the means to to take this war even more aggressively against Russia. Every step must be taken by every civilized country in the World to supress Russia by every means possible. Similar action should also be taken against every country supplying Russia or providing her aid of any kind. This includes such countries as China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. The leaders of every one of these countries are richly deserving of the same fate as suggested for Putin. No more better time than the present to rain down Cruise Missiles upon the leaders of Iran and Syria. Death and destruction for these scum would not only be of value to the civilized world, but citizens of these unfortunate countries as well. I have no expectation any such thing would happen as many of the leaders of the so called Free World are so feckless and weak as to be nothing but craven cowards. Nowhere else is this description more accurate than of the fraudulent President of the United States. What the ultimate outcome will be remains to be seen, and we can only hope that enough good men do the right thing to achieve a positive outcome.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Remember The Alamo

September 24, 2022

Texas was first settled by various Indian Tribes over 10,000 years ago. First conqueror to invade the land was Spanish Conquistadors looking for gold but they didn't stay. Over time some successful settlements were established by the Spanish along the Rio Grande and the French in the East in the rolling hill country where they found the natives weren't hostile. Time went by and the land was ceded to Mexico, but never truly settled.

During this same period the Comanche Tribe acquired the skill of horsemanship from Pueblo Indians that had learned it from their Spanish masters. Soon, mounted upon the herds of feral horses descended from those ridden by the Conquistadors that had escaped into the wild, they became the most fearsome cavalry ever know in the Western Hemisphere.

They soon ruled the plains of Texas, which accounted for roughly three-quarters of the land and continued to do so for nearly three-hundred-years. They lived upon the vast herds of buffalo roaming the plains, and by raiding settlements along their borders and into Mexico. They became a deadly thorn in the side of the Mexican settlements which the Mexican Army could do little about. Mexico could march an army into the land in reprisal only to find their villages had disappeared and the Comanche horsemen only fell upon their flanks and rear to pick off stragglers and steal horses at night.

In effort to establish a buffer zone to protect their settlements they invited in the expanding population of Americans from the East, who came in search of land to settle upon. As more and more Americans flowed in, pushing back the Comanche as they came, they soon outnumbered the Mexican inhabitants.  

As time went by and the Anglos, as they came to be called, grew resentful of their Mexican overlords. Eventually they formed a government and declared independence from Mexico.

This, of course, drew in the Mexican Army to dispute the claim. The first engagement occurred at The Alamo, an old Spanish Mission and fortress in San Antonio. After a thirteen day siege the defenders lost the battle, most killed in battle, and others executed after capture. Only a few, mostly women and children, and a slave, escaped death. The cruelty exhibited by the Mexican conquerors and the fact that the Mexican General, Santa Ana, had ordered the bugle tune,  El Degüello, which meant no quarter for the defenders, played just prior to the attack soon became widely known.

The Army of Texans being assembled thirsted for revenge, and REMEMBER THE ALAMO became their battle cry. The next battle occurred at San Jacinto with the Army of Texans victorious, capturing General Santa Ana in the process. This marked the last invasion from South of the Rio Grande until the present day, though title to Texas remained claimed by Mexico until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican War.

The Republic of Texas, as it had proclaimed itself, remained independent after conquering the Mexican Army until they petitioned the United States, and became successful in becoming the 28th State in 1845. This of course gave them security from further invasion until the corrupt and incompetent administration of Joe Biden took control of the Government of the United States on January 20, 2021, when the Southern Border was thrown open to any and all Illegal Aliens wishing to enter.

The security from foreign invasion that was guaranteed Texas upon entry into the United States was revoked, and Texans feel rightfully betrayed and enraged.

Unwilling to stand still while hundreds of thousands of Illegal Aliens pour into the state, the Governor of Texas has begun bussing these invaders into the Democrat run so called sanctuary cities of the North, Washington D.C., and enclaves of rich Democrats. This is bringing home the outrage of this invasion to the scum responsible for it, and they are howling.

The State of Florida has now joined Texas in bussing these unwanted invaders away, and hopefully other Border States will soon do likewise, as well as other communities where they had been relocated in the dark of night by the Biden Administration. Remember the Alamo should become the rallying cry of outraged American Citizens until this illegal invasion is halted, and all Illegal Aliens are sent back from whence they came.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

The Thug Goes To War

September 21, 2022

The great generals of history can be counted using only two digits, the failed generals run into the thousands. The latest addition to this list of failures is none other than Vladimir Putin, Russian Dictator. He launched his unprovoked and criminal war against the peaceful neighboring country of Ukraine expecting a hasty victory, so he could gaze into his mirror, mirror on the wall, and see his dream come true, Vladimir the Great of Russia. Instead, Ukraine has fought his army to a standstill, and in addition to over forty-thousand Russian dead along with the commensurate number of wounded, he has lost thousands of tanks, trucks, military vehicles, aircraft, helicopters, artillery pieces, and stores of ammunition, explosives, and supplies. His dream, his reputation, and his legacy now lie on the dung heap of history. His army and his country have lost heart for the fight and he's resorted to clearing his jails for more cannon fodder, and they are being forced into combat with bayonets at their back. In his monumental vanity Putin sees himself as a great general but nothing could be further from the truth. His background and his life's work has been in the KGB, a criminal organisation to spy on other Russians, their modus operandi is fear, intimidation, jailings, abuse, torture, murder, and assassination. He is nothing but a crime boss, running the state with the same ruthless methods he learned in the KGB. His generals directing the war in Ukraine have all failed or fallen victim to Ukrainian steel and shot, and they seem to be of a class that has risen to prominence through political favor rather than ability. He has sacked many, as well as other officials, but no improvement has yet to be found. The methods his army has used are no different than what the Poles and Germans faced in WWII, rape, pillage, and plunder. Ground retaken by Ukrainian counter attacks, and intelligence intercepts, have exposed thousands of war crimes with more being uncovered by the hour. Recent setbacks of Russia forces have resulted in more Russian War Crimes including massive missile and artillery attacks on the civilian population of Ukraine. He is now threatening Nuclear War against Ukraine and countries supplying her. The civilized world must not stand still for anything less than complete Russian withdrawal from Ukraine, and full reparations to compensate and repair all the damage done there.

Many nations of the free world have stepped up to do their part in supplying Ukraine with weapons, ammunition, aircraft, supplies, and training. Many have also imposed sanctions on Russia and every little bit helps, but the free world nations need to step up the heat on Russia to full blast until the criminal regime now controlling the country is toppled. Many years ago our great President, Ronald Reagan, labeled Russia as the Evil Empire. Scumbags in our country, primarily Democrats and liberals, ridiculed him for it but he was 100% spot on. The same designation still appiles, and in Spades. There is no more evil man on the face of the earth right now than Vladimir Putin and civilized nations should not rest until he is burning in Hellfire. All war fighting assets now supplied to Ukraine should be increased to the maximum she can utilize. Sanctions against Russia should be maximized to completely strangle her economy and sanctions should also be imposed upon countries presently trading with Russia as well. International trade in Russian petroleum is the primary commodity supporting Russia's war effort. Bringing it to a halt should be a primary goal. Another military asset that should be supplied Ukraine are seaborne warcraft that could be utilized to stop Russian ships and cargo from sailing the high seas of the world's oceans. The free world should conduct siege warfare against Russia militarily, economically, and diplomatically until Russia surrenders and atones for her crimes.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Filthy Perverts

September 5, 2022

Over the past few years honest Americans have learned that FBI Agents are nothing less than thugs, pompous brutes and toadies with badges that allow them to do anything they want to American Citizens that opposes a corrupt Federal Government and the Deep State. This includes Swat Team raids on harmless citizens, with a fake news TV network standing by to record the outrage; arresting them in commercial airports, handcuffing and manacling them, then perp walking them to the paddy wagon and hauling them off to jail; and fabricating charges against them so they can spy on their political network. Now we learn that some of them are filthy perverts as well. The raid on Donald Trump's private residence was, unprincipled, unprecedented, and previously seen only in Third World Countries and Dictatorships. Not only did they show up in the dark of night, but they ordered that surveillance cameras be turned off, and his attorneys out of the building as well, to assure nothing they did while there was observed. They searched every inch of the building included the private quarters of his wife and son. What did they expect to find in his wife's panty drawer and son's collections of things young boys are apt to accumulate, the Nuclear Secrets they've implied Trump had in his possession? Trump and his wife were righteously outraged and she refuses to ever again wear her wardrobe that was pawed over and rummaged through by these filthy perverts. I hope she has her wardrobe properly washed and cleaned to remove any trace of filth left there by the perverts that pawed through them, and donated to underprivileged girls. Donald Trump's legal team has been able to convince an honest Federal Judge to appoint a Special Master to determine what of all items seized from Trump's estate was legitimately taken and what was stolen. I've no doubt the Justice Department will go in search of corrupt judges to nullify this legitimate decision and obey the orders of a corrupt administration.

If there's any doubt now about the complete and utter corruption of the Federal Government from the Biden Administration through the Department of Justice and the FBI it is now perfectly clear. If honest American don't rise in righteous indignation and go to the polls in November to return the Congress and Senate to Republican control honest government in our country may be gone forever.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

The Fat Fraud

September 2, 2022

The fat fraud, former Attorney General Bill Barr, is still invited in front of National TV cameras to spout more of his voluminous lies. Have Americans forgotten how he assured them that the Jeffrey Epstein murder was indeed a suicide? It was only the most suspicious death to occur in a Federal Penitentiary in a hundred years. He was a Deep State plant all along who was recommend to President Trump as a principled man that had briefly served in the George H. W. Bush administration in the same capacity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Once in office he played his part cleverly and well, even convincing many Democrats that he was a Trump ally, some of which called for his impeachment. He continued in his insidious role until the time came to strike, and like Brutus who stabbed Caesar in the back, he did the same to Donald Trump. Though there were two highly suspicious past Presidential elections, that of 2020 was the most suspicious in all U.S. History. More than suspicious, it was completely fraudulent and more evidence of this surfaces almost daily. This was the time for Barr to act and carry out the infamous act he had been sent to do by proclaiming the second monumental lie of his lifetime. With no substantiation of a thorough investigation to back him up, he declared that though there had been irregularities in the election process, they were insufficient to offset the rightful result. He claimed that he had authorized FBI Field Offices to investigate election irregularities that came to their attention. It was no more than a suggestion, and they quickly got the hint and did nothing. He did not order a full investigation of the hundreds of irregularities that had been reported which may well have exposed the frauds that took place. No, his order to investigate was nothing but a smoke screen.

Then, the evidence of crime and corruption that the Hunter Biden laptop had exposed was actively covered up by the media and government officials prior to the election by insisting to the American People that it was Russian disinformation. The Department of Justice and the FBI also played an active part in this coverup. All this occurred while Barr remained Attorney General, but he said not a word. Once the fraudulent election was over and Biden declared the winner, Barr's work was done, and rather than complete his term in office until properly replaced, he resigned two days before Christmas saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.

Since leaving office he continues to toe the Deep State line, lying about the legitimacy of the Biden election, and opposing everything supporting Donald Trump's valid claims of fraud. Since the infamous Gestapo raid on Trump's home he continues to support this illegal act by a lawless Department of Justice and FBI, further exposing himself as the fraud he is, and he has now secured a permanent spot among the greatest criminals and traitors ever to serve in the Department of Justice.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

An Ill Wind

August 31, 2022

"It’s an ill wind that blows no good.", is an old English saying meaning that a misfortune for some may be of benefit to others. A good example would be a ship blown upon rocks in a storm and wrecked that yields valuable salvage washed ashore. The most devastating wind to hit our country since the administration of Barack Obama was the fraudulent election of Joe Biden as President. All successful programs of the outgoing President that had led to a booming economy, energy independence, renewed international respect, a stronger military, and scrapping of disastrous China, Iran, and climate policies, have all been scrapped, and our country is now awash in disaster. Inflation is now at a forty-year high; recession is in the offing; domestic petroleum production has been scuttled and gasoline prices are double what they were before Biden took office; our military has deteriorated to dangerous levels of preparedness and recruits are becoming extremely difficult to find; our enemies in China, Iran, and Russia routinely thumb their noses at our foreign policy; and our once secure Southern border has been thrown open to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and drugs, sex trafficked victims, criminals, and potential terrorists are flooding into our country. Ordinary Americans are suffering; crime is epidemic in Democrat controller cities and states; and homelessness is out of control.

There are, however, individuals and groups that are benefiting handsomely from the situation. Cartels and coyotes are raking in fortunes from the money they charge for escorting illegal aliens into our country, many of whom are abandoned in desolate areas of the Southwest where many are meeting their doom; the lucrative drug trade has grown exponentially across this border and hundreds of Americans are dying daily from the effects of these illicit drugs, many of which are little more than poison; and China, where most of these drugs are manufactured, benefits the sales of these drugs and from every American death from talking them. Most ecstatic are the druggies in our country, drugs that were hard to find and expensive during the previous presidential administration are now plentiful and cheap. The fact that some may contain deadly toxins doesn't seem to bother them and they're dying in droves. Their attitude seems to duplicate that of President Joe Biden who is spending the majority of his time on vacation, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Birds Of A Feather

August 26, 2022

I have friends from Delaware who winter in Florida. One has a friend that lives in the exclusive neighborhood where Joe Biden has a home. He informed us that local contractors refuse to perform work around Biden's home because he never pays the bill. In other words he's a deadbeat. Why then is it surprisingly that he lets students who have defaulted on their college loans off the hook? They're deadbeats, birds of a feather!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

How Dumb Do They Think We Are?

August 23, 2022

Just a week ago the President signed into law the ill named Inflation Reduction Act. The bill was sponsored by the vain and not so bright Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin. It is a scaled down version of the Build Back Better bill which would have been an even greater disaster had not Manchin, showing some signs of good sense at the time, blocked it. Schumer and his Democrat cohorts sweetened the pot with sufficient bribes for Manchin to entice him to string along, so there he was, grinning like the Cheshire Cat, as Biden signed the bill and passed him the pen. As with most Democrat bills passed of late, it raises the inflation rate and the national debt as well. It throws money at Green New Deal nonsense to mollify the Looney Toon left of the Democrat Party. As a sop to the voters the prices of some prescription drugs are reduced to fool them into thinking the act is to their benefit.

When Joe Biden was certified as President the Inflation Explosion Act was set in motion. No damage could actually be done until he was sworn in and up to that point our nation was in good shape. Inflation was minimal, employment was high, gas was cheap and the domestic petroleum industry was producing everything our country needed with a surplus for export, the Southern Border was under control and illicit drugs were expensive because so little was getting through, and Iran was deterred from producing a nuclear weapon. Once Biden reached the Oval he began nullifying every positive move Donald Trump had made to set the country on the right track. Inflation is now out of control, with the highest rate it's been in over forty years. By economic definition the country is also now in a Recession. Gas has doubled in price and more, and our domestic petroleum industry has been chocked into nothingness, while necessary crude oil supplies are being imported, much of it from our enemies, at record rates. Layoffs are growing as businesses cut production and close factories. The Southern Border has been thrown open and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have entered our country, with thousands more crossing each day. They bring with them not only a desire for a better life, but many are unfortunate sex trafficking victims, others riddled with disease, many of them criminals or perverts, and some possible terrorists. Illegal drugs are pouring across the border, including massive amounts of Fentanyl, manufactured by our prime enemy, China, and it's killing hundreds daily. The Administration is reopening talks with Iran in order to restore the Iran Nuclear Treaty, which was a green light for Iran to eventually develop a nuclear weapon, with which they have declared they will destroy Israel.

Only a few months ago I lost a great friend and comrade from the Vietnam War. He died from a cancer caused by Agent Orange. During our last conversation he stated, "I'm circling the drain." Under the Biden Administration our once great country finds herself in similar predicament, CIRCLING THE DRAIN!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Democrats Hire A New Whore

August 22, 2022

She's not very pretty, so that's not the attraction. In fact she reminds me of the old joke that goes, "Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes all the way to the bone!" The whore I'm talking about is Liz Cheney, who pretends to be a resident of Wyoming but in actuality has been a resident of The Swamp all her adult life. The citizens of Wyoming rejected her last week by greater than a two to one margin in her race to continue representing the State in Congress, so come January she's out of a job. Didn't take long though, for her to find another. She got dressed up, put on powder and paint, slipped on high heels, sashayed to the corner, hiked up her skirt, and found herself a John. Her proud new customer is none other than the Democrat Party, a long time whoremonger. Her trick will be campaigning on behalf of Democrat candidates for Congress and the Senate whose Republican opponent believes, along with Donald Trump and the majority of Republican voters, that the election of Joe Biden was fraudulent. You go girl, but considering how badly you were shellaced in your most recent election it may not turn out  quite the way you and your John are hoping.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

What's Next, A Night of the Long Knives?

August 20, 2022

A not so impossible scenario given the corruption and criminality of individuals presently occupying the highest levels of government power in Washington, D.C., including the President, the Attorney General, and the Director of the FBI!

A very informative story about the FBI can be found in a chapter from the book,  Kingdom Of Fear, by Hunter S. Thompson. The story is, The Mailbox: Louisville, Summer of 1946, and it concers a visit to his house by two FBI Agents trying to implicate him, a nine year old boy at the time, of a crime.

"These thugs, these pompous brutes and toadies with badges & plastic cards in their wallets that said they worked for J. Edgar Hoover and that they had the Right, and even the duty, to put me in jail, because they'd heard a "Rumor in the neighborhood".

I learned a powerful lesson: Never believe the first thing an FBI agent tells you about anything - especially not if he seems to believe you are guilty of a crime."

What he had to say in 1946 still applies today except the thugs and pompous brutes now work for Christopher Wray, and their intent is to put the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, in Federal Prison.

The Gestapo like raid on the residence of Donald Trump a few days ago was only a prelude to their next move. Once they have fabricated charges against Trump and his associates with the volumes of personal material they stole during the raid on his home, along with whatever fraudulent material they planted there, FBI Swat Teams will be conducting Midnight attacks on the homes of Trump and his associates, to haul them away in shackles and chains to a Federal Prison, to await trial in Federal Kangaroo Court.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Never Trust A Liar

August 19, 2022

An old Italian grandfather, imparting the wisdom of his years to his grandson, informed him that; "You can sometimes trust a thief, but you can never trust a liar!" In my lifetime I have observed this to be quite true. The Russian Collusion story was a hoax. The Steele Dossier was a hoax. The Hunter Biden laptop is Russian Disinformation story was a hoax. Everyone, whether in government or out, in Congress, or in the media that told you these stories were true are liars. So why would anyone other than a Simple Simon ever believe anything they told you again?

There have been three highly suspicious Presidential elections in our nation's history, including the most recent. Donald Trump believes that election was stolen from him and so do many of our citizens. Possibly even a majority if you include those that believe it was but say otherwise for political reasons. There were hundreds of irregularities reported in the election process, only a few of which have been even cursorily investigated. It is highly unlikely that a thorough investigation will ever be undertaken to determine the truth of the matter. Trump's claim that the election was fraudulent has been labeled The Big Lie by the majority of media outlets, and Democrats, liberals, RINOS, and Big Tech are going along with it. Has it ever occurred to you that these were the same sources of the stories that The Russian Collusion story, the Steele Dossier, and the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian Disinformation story were all true?

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

A Nation in Transition

August 10, 2022

The fraudulent election of Joe Biden has, within only a matter of months, thrown our country into full blown recession. Biden and his administrative mouthpieces lyingly insist this isn't so. Transition is one of the terms they choose to label these periods of negative growth. Our nation is indeed in transition, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the economy. Our great country, once a beacon of freedom to the World, is fast becoming nothing more than a Banana Republic or a Third World Country. A Southern Border thrown open to millions of illegal aliens from Mexico, Central & South America, and God knows where else, has flooded the country with deadly drugs, sex trafficked victims, criminals of all descriptions, and the maintenance of all these unwanted invaders thrown upon the backs of the Taxpayer to the tune of billions of dollars. Glaring indications that many institutions of the Federal Government have been politicised to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency are too numerous to deliver a complete accounting here, but a few are as follows: the Russia collusion hoaxes; the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation hoax; two Impeachments based upon fraudulent accusations; the lies coming from Congressmen and Federal Officials in support of these fraudulent activities; and the Swat Team  arrests and raids on the homes of Trump Supporters.

The Gestapo like raid on the home of former President Donald Trump two days ago is conclusive proof that this is so. We can no longer trust any proclamations coming from Federal Officials, nor the honesty of any action taken by the Department of Justice or the FBI. Criminal actions previously taken by Government Officials have gone unpunished and are likely never to be. The elections in November are critical to the restoration of honesty in our government, and the Presidential election of 2024 even more so. If overwhelming Republican victory is not achieved in these two elections the result is apt to be civil war, and the only restoration of Justice in this country will be by the actions taken by Courts of Minute Men.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Fearless Leader

July 27, 2022

Where Is Their Fearless Leader When His Army Needs Him Most?

Just over six months ago Russia invaded the inoffensive neighboring country of Ukraine. The reasons given for her doing so were all lies, of course, and I won't bother enumerating them. The real reason was pure and simple, a land and power grab. Russian Dictator, Vladimir Putin, expected Ukraine to be conquered in short order, but her army has fought his to a standstill. "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley". The fighting in Ukraine has taken a heavy toll of Russian forces, with over forty-thousand of them slain with the corresponding number of wounded. The Russian soldier sees no point whatsoever in continuing this war, and morale and discipline are at dangerous low levels. Without a general mobilization replacements have become hard to find and Putin has resorted to emptying his jails to fill the ranks. Now is a time when his army is sadly in need of a boost of morale and enthusiasm. What a better time than for Putin to visit his troops at the front to rouse them to greater effort for the greater glory of Mother Russia and their own personal honour. Where, the World wonders, is he?

During WWII when the German invasion of Russia was going well, Hitler conferred with his generals at that front on several occasions. After the disaster at Stalingrad, a blunder entirely of Hitler's own making, he never visited the front again. The German Army fought on valouriously, but her generals knew the war was lost. Hitler, through his incompetence in military operations, and his disastrous orders and decisions, had destroyed the greatest army the World had ever know.

One of his generals on the Russian front had advised his trusted contemporaries and subordinates, that if Hitler visited his headquarters again, he intended to arrest and execute him in the hope of saving his country from further disaster. Sadly, Hitler never again visited the front. When the end of the war came it found Hitler hiding in his bunker in Berlin. Rather than go to the ramparts and die like a soldier with a weapon in hand, he chose the coward's way out, suicide.

 Hitler had been a soldier in WWI on the Western Front. He was also a powerful, inspiring speaker. Vladimir Putin has never faced combat or delivered a speech of any consequence. His background is in the KGB, Russia's Gestapo like organisation who's specialty is espionage, kidnappings, torture, assassination, and murder. This is the man that rules Russia with an iron fist, and no more evil man is living today on this Earth.

I expect Putin to remain safe in his Kremlin lair, well guarded against treachery, as he well knows an appearance in the camps of his disenchanted army could mean his death. The Free World can only hope and pray that somehow the Hand of God or man will stay his malignant life before  the whole World is plunged into recession, famine, and possibly nuclear war.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

A Successful Wartime Tatic

July 18, 2022

On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Germany invaded Poland from the west precipitating WWII. The attacks against Poland were unprovoked and undeclared and only for the purpose of dividing the country into two dominated regions as per previous secret agreement between the two aggressors. It was a brutal reign of terror that eliminated Poland as a military force in the war that soon engulfed the entire World.
On 24 February 2022 the Soviet Union again launched a brutal war of aggression against a peaceful neighboring country, on this occasion the country of Ukraine. In his naivete concerning military matters, being a former KGB Agent his line is more of spying, torturing, poisoning, assassinating, and murdering, he expected a quick victory much like what had been achieved in Poland. Ukraine, however, has put up one Hell of a fight and has fought Russian forces to a standstill. Fortunately Ukraine has received much support from the West in the form of sophisticated modern weaponry. Additionally they are receiving moral and financial support, and nations of the Free World have imposed sanctions against Russia, but much more is needed to turn the tide of Russian aggression completely.
Ukraine's only access to the World's oceans is via the Black and Mediterranean seas, and consequently have no great Navy as such. Russia, however, has a massive Navy and her vessels, products, and cargoes sail the World unimpeded. This is a situation that must not be allowed to continue.
It is time for Ukraine to begin issuing Letters of Marque. This is a time honored procedure for commissioning private vessels to seize enemy shipping on the high seas, escort them to friendly port where the ship and cargo are sold under the jurisdiction of an Admiralty Court, proceeds to be divided between the country issuing the Letter of Marque and the vessel owner. No Russian owned vessel, regardless of whatever flag of convenience she should be sailing under, should be immune from seizure, nor any vessel carrying Russian cargo. This would strike a great blow against Russia in the cause of freedom and justice for Ukraine as well as allowing brave and enterprising ship owners, captains and crews to reap rich rewards.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

America Loves A Hero

July 14, 2022

Bravery in dangerous and life threatening situations is a character trait universally admired and revered. In our country. The Minute Men that stood against the Redcoats; our great heroes of the two World Wars, Sergeant York and Audie Murphy, a lad who rushes into a burning building to rescue a child, all are recognized as heroes of their time. Even a man on the wrong side of the law can be hailed a hero if he is brave and stalwart in his actions. One such man was the bank and train robber Jesse James. When his criminal career was finally brought to conclusion it was by the hand of a man universally known and despised as The Dirty Little Cowar. Robert Ford committed the infamous act by shooting James when he was unarmed with his back turned.

Cowards are far to abundant in our country today, and the most despicable and despised are police officers that have failed in their duty to protect when innocent children were being murdered. The two most glaring incidents are the Parkland school shooting in Florida of 2018 and the Uvalde, Texas school shooting of less than two months ago. In both cases police officers stood cowardly by for an inexcusable length of time even when heavily armed, well backed up, and protected by body armor before finally moving to the scene of the atrocity to confront the killer. There is no excuse for their failure, and at the end of their days just as expressed in the words of the song High Noon, they will lie, "..a coward, a craven coward, a coward in my grave."

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

And They're Off

May 5, 2022

Only two days until the first Saturday in May, traditional date for the Kentucky Derby. To most Americans it is the most important horse race in our country, to Kentuckians everywhere, the most important race in the World. Some years there are one or two dominant colts that dwarf competition, in others, a wide open field of capable colts that are yet to be sorted out relative to ability. This is one of those years. The recent series of important races considered Derby prep races are sending seven impressive winners to Louisville, as well as six that were respectable seconds in the races, and three more that were thitd. They represent the finest racing in the States of Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, California, Arkansas, and New York. Then there's one from Saudi Arabia, one from Japan, and the Winner of the Tampa Bay Derby, all talented colts, and of the twenty, only one I feel has no business in the race. With a field of this size not all get a clear run, for there's always the chance of a a slow start or stumble out of the gate, bumping, interference, and running into a blind switch, so luck as well as skill and ability are at play. Luck as well as skill play a part in handicapping the race but I'm going to take a stab at it and predict these four colts in the order they will finish: 1st #3 Epicenter, 2nd #6 Messier, 3rd #10 Zandon, and 4th #12 Taiba. Good luck and may the best horse win!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

America, Rise and Act

March 3, 2022

Well before the conclusion of WWII in Europe, General George Patton recognized our real enemy. It was no longer NAZI Germany, they were beat, the real enemy was Communist Russia.. Her vast army was sweeping West against what little that was left of German forces in opposition, raping, looting, and destroying as they went. Patton wanted to advance his victorious army as far East as possible until they met Russian forces, a move which would have saved millions from Russian destruction, domination and slavery, including Berlin. Unfortunately, however, a line of demarcation had been agreed upon at the Yalta Conference by an ill and weakend President Roosevelt, and General Eisenhower, commanding the Allied Armies insisted upon its adherence. Eisenhower was indeed a splendid administrator, but his decisions as a General often proved disastrous. To cite the major ones, including the aforementioned, they were the failure to close the Falaise Gap which would have trapped the bulk of the German Western Army and brought a much earlier conclusion to the war, and his throwing logistic support to General Montgomery's Bridge Too Far debacle rather than Patton's victorious Third Army, which would have brought an end to the war in 1944. Once hostilities ceased and Germany surrendered, Patton was in favor of turning the German Army East and keeping them fighting, which would have driven the Russian back to the boundaries of her own country, for which he was labeled insane, and worse, by liberals, politicians, and Communist in own country. The Cold War and the present terrorist attack on the free country of Ukraine prove how right he was.

On March 8, 1983 President Reagan labeled Russia an Evil Empire, for which he was ridiculed by Democrats, liberals, and appeasers. The ongoing War Crimes in Ukraine in the unprovoked war against her by Russia proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the correctness of his declaration.

The war in Ukraine is partly being financed to the tune of $70 Million per day by purchasing Russia's oil. This is an atrocity, having our own country financing an unjust war and the concurrent war crimes ongoing there. Russian oil should be embargoed, and none should be allowed sold anywhere in the World. If politicians won't put a stop to it, it's time for the American People to rise up and do the job. Ships carrying Russian oil should not be allowed to enter U.S. ports. Port workers should strike and refuse service and offloading of this oil. Ship's crews should strike and refuse to move ships carrying it. Truckers should refuse to haul it, and no petroleum company should buy it. Of course this will drive the price of gasoline up, and every penny in price rise creates a drop in Biden's approval rating.

A simple solution is at hand however, immediately remove restrictions placed on our domestic petroleum industry and restore full production as it was under President Trump, and open the Keystone XL Pipeline. Americans would again be able to afford gas for their cars and the Evil Empire will be driven further back against the wall.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2022

Teaching Children to Hate

November 29, 2021

America has produced a number of grear songwriters, most notably Stephen Collins Foster and Woody Guthrie. Not far behind them ranks the late Tom T. Hall. Of his many memorable songs his absolute classic is Watermelon Wine. It's a story of an old man who reveals the important lessons he's learned in life, "Ain't but three things in this world that's worth a solitary dime but old dogs and children and watermelon wine" To narrow it down to a most pertinent issue of today the following line applies, "God bless little children while they're still too young to hate" Children are the most precious asset of Civilization, and their molding into future citizens is the most critical task of society. The sole purpose of this so-called Critical Race Theory is to teach children to hate. The situation as it exists today finds children of all races going to school and playing together happy and companionable, and they'll continue to grow up this way but for the interference of the Race Baiters. Unfortunately the Race Baiters are manifold, and reap rich rewards for spreading their message of hate and discontent. Who are these Race Baiters you ask? Not only the shameless hustlers like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, and their ilk; many media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN;  organizations such as Black Lives Matter;  and social media censors of truth like Facebook and Twitter. The primary, and absolutely worst of all however, is the Democrat Party. The con job they continue to foist on our black citizens is the claim that but for their crucial intervention, the Republican Party would put them back in chains. The purpose, of course, is to convince them how well off they are with welfare, food stamps, assistance to unwed mothers, and other government giveaway programs so they will continue to vote for candidates of the Democrat Party. They want to continue to promote Racism in perpetuity to insure their continued dominance of the country politically until the end of time. Until this malignant and despicable activity is stamped out once and for all there will never be true racial equally in our country.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Thirty Pieces of Silver

November 7, 2021

Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. Realizing the enormity of his crime he attempted to return the money but to no avail. In shame and disgrace he hanged himself. Thirteen modern betrayers have committed a similar act, but this time against the American People it was their sworn duty to protect, and the party they so falsely represented. What the sum of their booty was it must have been substantial, for their political careers are at an end and they are no longer welcome in honest society.

The so-called Infrastructure Bill does nothing to improve life in our country, it is a pure and simple Democrat boondoggle bill, it rewards the undeserving, penalizes the hard working, honest taxpayer, and generously rewards the politically connected contractors that will execute the so-called Build Back Better program of Joe Biden.

The betrayers are as follows: Reps. John Katko (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ), Fred Upton (R-MI), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Don Young (R-AK), Tom Reed (R-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), and Rep. Dav id McKinley (R-WV). Like Judas they will come to realize the enormity of their sin, and whether repentance leads them to  the extremity that Judas chose, they deserve no better.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Tarnished Hero

October 18, 2021

General Colin Powell has died, ostensibly due to the effects of Covid-19, though it seems everyone of an age liable to die for any number of usual reasons other than murder or automobile accident is declared to have died of the dreaded Wuhan Flu. He had a storied career, rising through several administrations to the positions of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State. During the Gulf War he is credited with the “Powell doctrine” of using overwhelming, disproportionate force against any enemy, but this is nothing more than the ancient military doctrine, so well expressed by General Nathan Bedford Forrest as, "Get there first with the most." His undoing came when as Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration he appeared before the United Nations to perpetrate the lie that Saddam Hussein possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction. Upon discovering he had been fed fraudulent information by the Hawks in the Bush administration, his honor besmirched, he fell out with them. In his undisguised ire, however, he fell out with the entire Republican Party and became a willing tool of the Democrats, supporting in subsequent elections, the campaigns of Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. Additionally he was a constant critic of Donald Trump. He became a Benedict Arnold to Republicans everywhere, and they universally despised him. He remained a tool of the Democrat Party, but a tool is not really a friend. His final days became a bitter draught to swallow, and he died an unhappy, disillusioned man. At the end he may well have lost much of his will to live. Watch the Democrats clamor for his body to lie in state in the Capitol, just as they did for another of their tools, RINO John McCain.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Standars of a Man

September 30, 2021

"To ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. This was the ancient law of youth. Old times are past, old days are done; but the Law runs true, O Little son!"

Fair enough standards to expect of a man, they are the standards I’ve set for my grandsons. How many of our Presidents do you think would measure up? I’d venture that Ronald Reagan was the last accomplished rider, though the Bushes have probably sat on a few horses, and Clinton, Obama, and Biden have likely ridden a few on the Merry-Go-Round. As for Marksmanship Reagan attended the Cavalry Shool and it was part of the curriculum. The Bushes trained as Pilots and Aerial Gunnery was a big part of the course. Clinton, Obama, and Biden may have popped a few balloons at the Carnival but that would be the extent of it. As for Truthfulness, every President since Reagan with the exception of Donald Trump has lied to the American People, with Biden presently setting a mark I doubt will ever be broken. To sum it up the American People aren’t doing a very good job of choosing the Leader of our Country!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

They Drank The Kook-Aid

September 16, 2021

The California gubernatorial recall election was unsuccessful and the state remains the most incompetently administered in the Union, with a Governor incapable of occupying the position of Dogcatcher. That's about par for the course however, the man in the Oval Office isn't capable of being a Wal-Mart Greeter, the Secretary of Defense has lost eighty-five billion dollars in inventory and not fit to run a 7-11, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of I wouldn't trust as a school crossing guard. Overall the entire country has never experienced such corruption, incompetent administration, and failure to achieve desired objectives. A massive turnaround will have to occur in next year's elections, or the path to Third World status that Democrat administrations have had the country on since the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson will be unstoppable.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Will They Drink The Kook-Aid?

September 14, 2021

In 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana, cult leader Jim Jones convinced 909 members of his cult to drink Cyanide laced Kool-Aid. All died. Today in California citizens of the State face a similar decision. In the Gubernatorial Recall Election will they behave as sheep, like the victims in Jonestown, drink the Kool-Aid and vote to retain the present Governor, or will they act as responsible men and women and cast their vote for a replacement?

Gavin Newsom is inarguably the worst sitting Governor in all the fifty States since the resignation of the disgraced Governor Cuomo of New York. As well, he is inarguably the worst Governor in the entire History of California, and there have been some doozies. California, once the Golden State that beckoned millions to the Pacific Coast, is now a total mess. Anyone living there with eyes to see is well aware of that, so there's no need in providing a list of the disasters. Newsome is so desperate to retain his undeserved position that he's called upon lying scum, both in state and out, to come to his rescue. Leading element of the media spreading untruths and malicious allegations against his primary opponent is the Los Angeles Times. Hollywood, a den of vice and iniquity, has paraded many of her glittering stars of the Silver Screen out in his support. To top all this, the two biggest losers and untrustworthy individuals in the Country, President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris, have also appeared in his support.

Retention of Governor Newsom leads only to further deterioration and ruin of a beautiful State. Successful recall offers Californians hope for a better future. It is a no-brainer for San Diego Beachlife Magazine to throw wholehearted support in favor of recall.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

All In Vain

September 13, 2021

After twenty years of war, launched as a result of a massive terrorist attack on US territory, it has come to conclusion. Only temporarily however, for when you completely fail to defeat an enemy, one dedicated not only to the defeat of your country, but your entire way of life, they are certain to return to the field of battle. In addition to failing to defeat them, they have been left with massive amounts of military equipment with which to carry on their war. The cost of the defeat is incalculable. Though it has already cost Trillions in US Dollars wasted, the Butcher's Bill continues to accumulate, not only in lives lost, but shattered bodies, broken dreams, fatherless homes, homeless shelters, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, and numberless other ways that rip the fabric of civilization. Any war not resulting in destruction of an enemy's ability to make war, and the will to do so is a failure. The Taliban, and all other militant Islamic governments and movements, will remain an enemy of civilization until the day they are completely eradicated from the face of the Earth.
 
After three days of TV, starting with the disgrace of defeat in Afghanistan, and the cowardly withdrawal leaving women and children behind; followed with replay of the 9/11 attack and memorials; I wound up last night watching Charlie Wilson's War. That movie, based pretty soundly on the book of the same name, illustrates how successfully the tribal war against the Russians was conducted, and how abjectly we failed to follow up with the pennies of prevention that has cost the pounds of cure that failed to save the patient. Afghanistan is again in control of the Taliban, and all our other enemies are clamoring to support, assist and cooperate with them. It bodes ill for the future of our country in every way imaginable.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Lessons for Leaders

September 10, 2021

A military officer worth his salt prepares for war from the day of his first commission. He must train physically for the ardors of combat, but as well he must train his mind for the complexities of battle. Though much can be learned from realistic field exercises, he should study past battles to learn the tactics and strategies that succeeded, and as well to understand those that failed. Future statesmen, as well, must look to lessons of the past, knowing full well that ignorance of history leads to repetition of past mistakes. General George S. Patton, though nicknamed 'Old Blood and Guts', was well versed in military history. Abraham Lincoln, was well read in history and the successes and failures of previous Presidential administrations. The present leaders of our country are hardly cut from the same cloth. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, brags of reading Lenin, Mao, Critical Race Theory, and wanting to understand White Rage, rather than classics such as; Jackson's Valley Campaign, Lee's Lieutenants, A Rifleman Went to War, Lucky Forward, That Kind of War, and Street Without Joy. His military advice to the President, if any, is apparently ignored completely. I doubt that President Joe Biden has read a serious book in his life, and his handling of the surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban, while abandoning American Citizens and allies prior to pulling out in the dark of night, indicates if he's studied any leader at all it's Emperor Nero of Rome.

Our country is in a state of crisis and our present leadership is only leading us further down the path to total ruin. Biden needs to go ASAP if not sooner, and he needs to take his whole Cabinet and military hierarchy with him!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The World's Greatest Army

September 10, 2021

Every time the subject is mentioned by government officials or in the media, our army is described as the World's Greatest. Due to technological advances it no doubt possess the greatest weaponry yet  know to man, but to describe an army as great when it just abandoned Afghanistan under cover of darkness to a ragtag band of cutthroats, leaving behind our own citizens and allies, not to mention billions of dollars in military equipment, is utter nonsense. An army becomes great due to the mettle of it's soldiers, and the caliber of it's leadership once it achieves great victory on the battlefield.

The last time this occurred, so far as an American Army is concerned, was in Korea. Our military services are at present virtually leaderless, and until tested in battle, it's impossible to gauge the quality of our men at arms. I wouldn't bet on a positive outcome in any engagement with a powerful nation at the present time. The last American General that could legitimately be described as great was Matthew Ridgeway, who, after brilliant service in WWII leading Paratroopers, rose to real greatness in Korea, when he pulled MacArthur's fat from the fire. He halted an army under assault by Chinese hordes and in full rout, stabilized and held the line, then turned back to the offensive. Ordered to hold the line at the 38th Parallel, he proceed to inflict massive casualties on the Chinese and North Korean armies running into the millions. He should have worn Five Stars.

The only US Army to achieve greatness in WWII was Patton's Third Army. Though our men fought valiantly and achieved victory in other battles, none approached such brilliance in maneuver, nor captured such ground or number of captives. The greatest army of WWII was without doubt the German Army. They had well trained, disciplined soldiers, and brilliant leadership in Generals Manstein, Rommel, Guderian, and Kesselring. No single nation could have stood against them, but Hitler's ordered attack on Russia, and declaration of war against the U.S. doomed them to failure.

The Japanese had fanatical soldiers but only one great General in Yamashita. The Russians had unlimited manpower and U.S. industry to supply their war machine but only one great General in Zukov. For the U.S. Army to return to WWII level of competence would require a massive shakeup of leadership, and a level of realistic training not seen since the Louisiana Maneuvers.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

"Whom the Gods would destroy they first make great."

September 6, 2021

The above does not apply to Joe Biden he was never great, the highest level of achievement in his lifetime being mediocrity, and rarely even that. The circumstances that placed him where he is today would have been inconceivable fifty years ago when there were yet men of good character, interested in doing right for their country, in the Democrat Party. Sadly those days are long gone. There is not a Democrat in Washington I would trust with my back turned, or leave anything of value in a room with one of them unwatched. Sadly many Republicans are no better, with Mitt Romney being a glaringly example of the scum of which I speak. A split Republican ticket gave us eight years of corruption by the Clinton administration, followed by eight years of incompetency and a fraudulently initiated war by a Bush administration, then another eight of corruption by an Obama administration that made the Clinton years look almost petty. Fortunately the electorate of the country began to wake up, and thwarted the dreams of the evil wife of the previous Clinton, and an honest and determined man occupied the Oval Office. In a blind rage, the parties that had been part of the three previous administrations, and their supporters, turned against him. The corruption that had set in by placing individuals in Cabinet positions such as Reich, Cheney, Ashcroft,  Kerry, Holder, Lynch, and Clinton,; FBI Directors such as Mueller, and Comey; and Intelligence Directors the likes of Clapper, and Brennan, had insured that many individuals of their ilk remained in high position in these departments long after they had gone. When Donald Trump took the reins of government in his hands he soon found to his dismay that there were few in Washington he could trust to tell him the truth or do the right thing. He proceeded by trial and error to locate individuals capable of replacing the corrupt individuals that had to go. Nor could he ever turn his full attention to the job at hand for having to fight off false accusations of Russian Collision, pursued by a Kangaroo Court, under the direction of a thoroughly corrupt Special Counsel, who finding himself incapable of finding the least shred of viable evidence, turned to malicious accusations of Obstruction of Justice. Then followed two Impeachments, based as usual on false accusations, and all the while these lies were aided and abetted by Democrats in Congress, and a fraudulent media. This cabal also enlisted the conspiracy of the so-called Masters of the Universe of High Tech to censor and suppress all truth that would be of benefit to the President. In spite of it all, they found on election night they would not legitimately be able to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump They then turned to their corrupt conspirators in a half-dozen States to find the fictitious and fraudulent ballots necessary to upset Trump's victory, which brings us to the question of why a man with such lack of achievement, honesty, integrity, and decency was chosen as the Democrat candidate. Well, for the very reason that Obama had chosen his as his Vice President running mate in the first place, he wanted no man with any of the characteristics Biden lacked that might thwart his plan of corrupting the Three Branches of Government, and destroying the position of the U.S.  as a World Power. Biden was perfectly happy to spend eight years flying around, being fetted and fed, while all he had to do was a bit of glad handing and making meaningless speeches, while kissing and sniffing the hair of attractive women and little girls, and playing golf. And after all, with Hillary Clinton being warmed over bread whom few in the party retained enthusiasm for, the only other option was Bernie Sanders, a dingbat Socialist whom Democrat leaders had no stomach for. And so, eight months into a Biden administration we find a government that mirrors his own lack of anything smacking of honesty, integrity, or leadership ability. We have a border crisis the likes of which the country has never seen, runaway inflation, an energy shortage and these are just the least of our worries. We have a hostage crisis in Afghanistan that dwarfs the Iran hostage crisis. The Iranian hostages after all eventually came home safely, and though lives were lost in the aborted rescue, they were but a handful compared to those slain and maimed already in rescuing our citizens and allies in Afghanistan, yet thousands remain, and with door to door executions presently going on there, no telling what the number will eventually become. The cowardly retreat from there is a stain upon our military reputation as disgraceful as the slaughter of innocent Indians at Wounded Knee. The billions of dollars worth of military equipment left behind makes the pallet loads of unmarked cash flow on Obama's order to his Islamist brothers in Iran look like chicken feed. The surrender of Afghanistan to the terrorists of the Taliban insures it is again a safe haven for terrorism and it is only a matter of time before this terror is again unleashed upon the West. Our allies in the free world no longer trust us and fear for the outcome ahead. Our military is now a laughing matter to our enemies in the World, and our power will be tried, and likely thwarted, at every future opportunity. If we have to wait until 2024 to see a return to honest and competent government, much of the World will already be in a state of ruin. If there is light at the end of the tunnel, it is a long, long way off!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

In Dishonor and Disgrace

September 2, 2021

For the first time in the proud history of U.S. Arms, an American Army has cowardly left the field of conflict, stealing away under the darkness of night, and withdrawn completely from the theater of operations, vowing never to return. Left behind in this cowardly surrender are thousands of U.S. Citizens and Allies, and billions of dollars worth of sophisticated military equipment. Those of our citizens and allies left behind, and fortunate to escape murder or execution by the savages holding them prisoner, will be held for ransom, as our victorious enemy extracts additional billions of dollars from our treasury. That this has been the most ill managed military operation in our nation's history, only illuminates the fact that our military leaders have degenerated to a point of woeful incompetence and inability. Unlike giants of the past like Generals Washington, Jackson, Scott, Grant, Pershing, Marshall, and Ridgeway, we are left with pigmies such as Austin, Milley, and McKenzie. Our once Terrible Swift Sword is cast aside  as our army flees the field of battle. In time the men responsible will lie craven cowards in their graves, but the stain upon our escutcheon will remain forever.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Back To Bastogne

August 21, 2021

A friend of mine with considerably more sense than anyone in the present administration, remarked last night that every plane flying into Kabul should come loaded with troops and equipment. He is absolutely right! The Kabul airport has been turned into another Bastogne by an incompetent Biden and officials in his equally incompetent administration. Troops there are holding a small perimeter surrounded by an enemy unbounded by the Geneva Convention and fighting under the Black Flag. American citizens and Afghan allies are scattered throughout the city and country, hiding in fear for their lives and in desperate need of rescue. Where is the General McAuliffe to hold his position at all cost until a brave and resourceful General Patton and his Third Army come to the rescue? Regardless of the numerous lies coming from Biden and his sycophants in Washington, the situation is dire. The Taliban can attack with mortars, rockets, and any other weapon at their disposal while our troops are powerless to reply because the perimeter is surrounded by a city full of innocent civilians. Can the military leadership so desperately needed still be found in our armed forces? If Secretary of Defense, and former General, Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, are any example the answer is a resounding no! Biden claims we are in constant contact with the Taliban and they are allowing our citizens and allies to pass through their lines en route to the airport, but this lie is almost immediately refuted by the Secretary of Defense. Our position should be immediately fortified and reinforced, and as many innocents as possible must be flown out. Then the General commanding should call the Taliban leader to parley. It should be made abundantly clear to the Taliban that if our citizens are allies are not granted safe passage they will be rescued by force. Any Taliban standing in the way of the rescue will be ruthlessly slaughtered. For any American or ally killed or missing, ten Taliban will be killed or hanged. They should be given a minimum amount of time to comply. In the meantime all checkpoints, rally and assembly positions of the Taliban should be zeroed is for surprise simultaneous attack by artillery, mortar, and helicopter. Any Taliban captured during the rescue should be identified and held for future hanging. As with the only solution to a dog gone mad is destructions, the only solution to ridding the World of the Taliban and Radical Islam is by similar methods.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Hell Bound Train

August 19, 2021

Biden lay down on his White House bed.
Having seen Afghan allies lying dead.
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain,
To dream that he rode on a hell-bound train.

The engine with murderous blood was damp
And was brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp;
An imp, for fuel, was shoveling bones,
While the furnace rang with a thousand groans.

The boiler was filled with swamp water green
And the devil at the throttle was happy and keen;
The passengers were a most motly crowd--
RHINOs, Democrats,  and Liberals Loud.

Rich men in broadcloth, beggars in rags,
Handsome young ladies, and withered old hags,
Yellow and black men, red, brown, and white,
All chained together--O God, what a site!

While the train rushed on at an awful pace--
The sulphurous fumes scorched their hands and face;
Wider and wider the country grew,
As faster and faster the engine flew.

Louder and louder the thunder crashed
And brighter and brighter the lightning flashed;
Hotter and hotter the air became
Till the clothes were burned from each quivering frame.

And out of the distance there arose a yell,
"Ha, ha," said the devil, "we're nearing hell!"
Then oh, how the passengers all shrieked with pain
And begged the devil to stop the train.

But he capered about and danced for glee,
And laughed and joked at their misery.
"My faithful friends, you have done the work
And the devil never can a payday shirk.

"You've bullied the weak, you've robbed the poor,
The starving brother you've turned from the door;
You've laid up gold where the canker rust,
And have given free vent to your beastly lust.

"You've justice scorned, and corruption sown,
And trampled the Constitution down.
You have drunk, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied,
And mocked at God in your hell-born pride.

"You have paid full fair, so I'll carry you through,
For it's only right you should have your due.
Why, the laborer always expects his hire,
So I'll land you safe in the lake of fire,

"Where your flesh will waste in the flames that roar,
And my imps torment you forevermore."
Then Biden awoke with an anguished cry,
His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high

Then he prayed as he never had prayed till that hour
To be saved from his sin and the demon's power;
And his prayers and his vows are all in vain,
For he'll never get off the hell-bound train

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

River Deep, Mountain High

August 16, 2021

Of all the magnificent songs sung by Tina Turner, River Deep, Mountain High, is probably her greatest. The song has no bearing on the present article however, other than the title so aptly describes the gross incompetence of the Biden administration. From His Fraudulence himself in the Oval Office, right down to the most, low level of his government appointees, it is the shoe that fits them perfectly. After being missing in action for nearly a week while the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated from disastrous to catastrophic, he now appears to enlighten the nation on the situation and his aggressive response thereto. While he remained hidden, his brain trust, an oxymoron if ever there was one, has devised the response for him to read from the teleprompter, absolving himself of all responsibly for this debacle. He has just delivered this response for the White House Press Corps and national broadcast. In this farcical presentation he applauds himself for always doing the right thing with regard to the War in Afghanistan for over twenty years, though often overruled by less competent authority. He adds that he is absolutely correct in withdrawing troops when he did, and vows never to send another one of America's youth to shed blood in any similar endeavor, completely ignoring the fact that he's just sent 6,000 troops back to Afghanistan to pull his fat from the fire. He also promises to rain down fire and brimstone on the Taliban if they so much as harm a hair on the head of any single American during the completion of this withdrawal, and this no doubt has the Taliban quaking in their sandals (though they should all be well booted once they get at the vast storehouses of uniforms and equipment left behind). Not only has he failed monumentally in anticipating and preparing for this catastrophe, his Intelligence Agencies, his Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his Secretary of State join him in this failure. The only reason the Justice Department and the FBI has not played a role, is they're far too busy conducting the greatest manhunt in the History of the World, in order to arrest and charge every Trump supporter who was within a half-mile of the Capital on January 6th, with all the petty crimes of which they may be guilty, but far more serious ones up to and including Insurrection and Treason if possible. Corrupt Attorneys in these agencies are working round the clock on this endeavor.

By dint of their grossly incompetent performances, the heads of the CIA, NSA, State and Defense Departments, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should all be immediately dismissed. In true Democrat Presidential fashion this would effectively pass the buck by shifting blame to others, but being the great Biblical Scholar that Biden pretends, he's aware of the admonition, "Let him that is without sin first cast the stone!" He will likely let sleeping dogs lie rather than have any of them strike back with legitimate assertions of their own.

Putting all his fraudulent folderol aside, as Captain of the Ship of State, the order he should be giving is, "Attention on deck, attention on deck, now  close and batten all doors and hatches, seal all watertight doors, and stand by for heavy weather! " The country is heading directly into the path of a Hurricane!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Buck Stops Here

August 15, 2021

President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk saying; "The Buck Stops Here", which meant in plain language that he, took full responsibility for his decisions and for the actions of the U.S. Government. He was the last Democrat President that had the backbone and integrity to stand on that principal. All Democrat Presidents since have, to some degree or the other, found reason to blame their own disasters, as well as other misfortunes and woes, on a previous Republican President or Republican Congress. Most notoriously Kennedy, who blamed Eisenhower for the failed Bay of Pigs disaster; Obama, who used this ploy time and again, in spite of his many failures being of his own devising, and now Biden, blaming Trump for all his failures, and especially, the present disaster ongoing in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has been the Crossroads of Empires for centuries. It was the bridge that must be crossed to send a conquering army into India the Jewel of the Orient. Many tried, and a few, very few, succeeded, but Afghanistan remained a land unconquerable by no other means than maintaining an overwhelming standing army there. The British tried and were disastrously driven out. Russia tried, and with massive U.S. involvement, were defeated and driven out by the Afghan Tribes.

Afghanistan is a country centuries behind the modern World. They are a Tribal People, largely uneducated, and embracing the brutal and repressive Religion of Islam. The U.S. used this to our advantage in driving the Russians out, which was in many ways a payback for Russian involvement in Vietnam. Essentially it was a 'Guns and Butter' policy. We'd supply the weapons and ammunition to fight the Russians, as well as food, clothing, and supplies to keep their women and children happy. The trick was in the balance, we would supply only enough to hold the Tribes in balance otherwise they'd turn on each other like the Hatfields and McCoys. It worked, and after suffering massive casualties and destroyed equipment, the Russians left with their tail between their legs. Unfortunately our Congress failed, as they so often have, in following up to help the country stabilize and rebuild. We left them with nothing but a country in ruins after years of brutal warfare. The Tribes then turned on each other in a fight for control, and in the process destroyed most of what was left. Enter the Taliban to take advantage of the power vacuum and seize control, and once they did, Afghanistan became the breeding ground for Worldwide Islamic Terror. The World ignored them until the ignorant savages began to destroy centuries old Works of Art because it offended their Muslim beliefs. So back into the picture comes Uncle Sam, not only to save them from the evil Taliban, but to bring to them the enlightenment of Democracy, and to usher them successful into the 21st Century. How abysmally that has failed.

How did this happen you ask, why didn't we return to our successful strategy of utilizing the Tribes? Well, George W. Bush, a President of little intellectually capability, turned to the voices of the Warmongers surrounding him, "Send in the Army!" they said. Though many great military leaders deplore war, and turn to it only as a course of last resort, others embrace it as the path to promotion and glory, and the latter group prevailed. Additionally, the Military Industrial Complex grows fat on supplying a deployed army, and its supporters were right there at Bush's ear in the person of his Vice President and several in his cabinet. Then the State Department reared its ugly head, insisting that the old days of working with the Tribes must go, we must bring the enlightenment of Democracy to Afghanistan. Yes, the old ways won't do, every citizen must have a vote, women and children must be educated, there must be a national government supported by a national army. Well we see how well this has worked, the national government has flown and the national army disbursed like chaff before the wind.

What is the solution I have no idea, it certainly won't come from the Biden administration, and in Afghanistan the brutal repression will go on, murders, beheadings, and rapes are now the order of the day. Women are forced back into the burka and a life of serfdom, and girls will again be available for forced and arranged marriages as young as ten years of age. The Dark Ages have returned to Afghanistan and Evil now rules the Land!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Body That Wouldn't Die

August 14, 2021

There was a Science-Fiction movie released in 1962 titled The Brain That Wouldn't Die, the story of a woman's head, kept alive after being severed from the body in an automobile accident. A somewhat similar situation exists today in real life, where we have the case of a human body remaining alive long after the brain has died. If you doubt the veracity of my story I can only refer you the TV in your own living room where the case is on display almost daily. The case I refer to is that of Joe Biden, ostensibly the President of the United States. The most recent evidence of the condition of his brain is a statement he made only two days ago regarding the recall effort being made to remove California Governor, Gavin Newsome from office. It follows:

“Governor Newsom is leading California through unprecedented crises. He is a key partner in fighting the pandemic and delivering economic relief to working families and helping us build our economy back better than ever. He’s taking on the climate crisis and standing up for the rights of women, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community,”

“He knows how to get the job done because he’s been doing it. And to keep him on the job, registered California voters should vote no on the recall election by September 14 and keep California moving forward."

It is public knowledge that the most ill run States in the nation are New York and California, and the only reason California is not the absolute worst is because of New York, where the Governor has just resigned as a consequence of his criminal negligence, incompetence, and malfeasance in office. California's Governor Newsom is only marginally less dreadful and the World knows it.

The dead state of Joe Biden's mind has been in evidence for a long time, and though his body remains alive it is functioning only marginally, requiring long periods of rest between activities, and must be led from place to place, and when required to speak needs the assistance of a teleprompter or earpiece to stimulate a garbled and mumbling reaction. How he was ever allowed to occupy the office he finds himself in can only be explained by the criminality and corruption of the Democrat Party.
With the body that wouldn't die occupying the Oval Office, we have a Ship of State without a rudder, and with ill winds in full force, and shoals in close proximity in the foreign threats and disasters looming, economy in free fall, inflation at record heights, and waning public confidence, catastrophe looms in the offing. Only the hand of God, or Donald Trump, can save the Republic.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Who Says Cheaters Never Win?

August 1, 2021

It is well documented that Joe Biden cheated his way through Law School, his classmates there have attested to that. With this in mind I'd expect his cheating began much earlier in his schooling, but that's beside the point now. In choosing the field of politics as his profession, his propensity to cheat became an asset. To this lesson learned early in school, he added Plagiarism and Lying, and though found out on several occasions, as he never was the sharpest pencil in the box, it hasn't stopped him to this day. With forty-seven years feeding at the public trough as Congressman, Senator, Vice President, and now President, he has become a wealthy man. His wealth, however, did not come from savings of his salary or astute investments, but rather from influence peddling, which has made him and his family members fabulously rich. Taking a cue from former Democrat Presidents Clinton and Obama, who have become fabulously rich with no accountable source of income, Biden has contrived to add his name to this list. Now, since it has been contrived to place him in the Oval Office, ostensibly as President of the United States of America, accomplished through the same method that got him through Law School, Cheating. Oh I know Democrats, fake news outlets, and RINOs dispute this fact and have branded it The Big Lie, but every intelligent person in the country knows Biden became President as a consequence of massive fraud at the polling place, and the honest of them admit it. Now we are faced with the problem of removing him from office, and as a first step, an audit is underway in Arizona, and proposed in other States where massive fraud is suspected, but every impediment possible is being throw in the path of success by those that have everything to lose. In the meantime, with every positive accomplishment achieved during the Presidency of Donald Trump being cancelled or nullified, our once great nation is now in an accelerated state of decline. Our susposed President in his advanced state of dementia acts much as Nero did, who fiddled while Rome burned.

Being told what to do, what to say, and when to shut up, he is led about from place to place like the feeble old fool that he is. As a consequence of all the criminality and corruption that has gone on in this administration and the previous two Democrat administrations as well, honest citizens in the country are in a state of boiling discontent. The last time such a state occurred it rose to boil over state, and a massive Civil War occurred, the effects of which still plague us today. The arrogance, smugness, and complacency of Democrats in Washington only adds fuel to the fire under the boiling pot. I am not Nostradamas and can not predict the ultimate outcome, but whatever it will be it will not be pretty, and the country and the free world will suffer woes unimaginable.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Cuba Libre!

July 23, 2021

Cuba is again in turmoil and distress. Years of government corruption and maladministration have starved and oppressed the population into a growing clamor for relief. Cries for America to come to the aid of the Cuban People are rising. Corrupt Cuban governments have been overthrown before, both from without and within. In 1898 after years of revolt in remote parts of the country against brutal Spanish rule, the U.S. declared war against Spain. The war was soon over after strong U.S.Military action in Cuba and the Philippines, and the colonial empire of Spain came under U.S. administration. Unfortunately, Cuba, like many other former Spanish colonies, proved incapable of long term self government. A succession of despotic dictators followed and continues to the present day. During the early 1950's the Cuban Communist, Fidel Castro, fomented a revolution against Cuban Dictator, Fulgencio Batista. A guerilla war was begun in remote mountains of the country, eliciting much worldwide sympathy and support. During the war Castro portrayed himself as a Cuban Patriot, intent only in freeing the Cuban People from oppression and restoring honest government, keeping his Communist intentions well hidden. On December 31st, 1958, Batista fled Cuba for exile and Castro took control of the country. Receiving acclaim and recognition from foreign governments, Castro basked in a honeymoon glow until his true Communist intentions became obvious. He began seizing property of large landowners, appropriating and nationalizing all foreign property and businesses, and instituted socialist control of all economic activity. Arbitrary jailings, torture, and execution of anyone disagreeing followed. Wealthy Cubans deprived of their land, property, and businesses, began to flee the country for the U.S. and Spain. Disenchanted with Castro's failure to deliver on his promises, and his oppressive policies, the Cuban middle-class soon followed, then eventually the poor as well. Braving the perilous voyage across the shark infested waters of the Florida Straits, and murder on the high seas by the naval blockade Castro had thrown up to prevent his citizens from fleeing. Florida had become the land of hope and promise.

Opposition to the Castro regime was not long in forming among the Cuban expatriate community in Florida. Political and paramilitary groups soon formed and it wasn't long before covert boat runs to Cuba began, inserting agents, equipment, and supplies, delivering weapons and explosives, and carrying out refugees. The Eisenhower administration soon took notice of the rising menace at the Southern doorstep. The CIA, a patriotic and honorable department at that period in U.S.History, soon formulated a plan. A military force of expatriate Cubans would be recruited, trained, and equipped. They would then be landed on the Cuban shore, and supported by U.S. air and naval force, while they established a foothold and initiated the counterrevolution against Castro. It all started with an airstrike to nullify the Cuban Air Force before the Cuban Brigade was landed. The initial air strike was successful but the cat was out of the bag and the World became aware of the U.S. involvement, and World opinion turned against the invasion. The landing of the Cuban Brigade went off on schedule but the continued air support promised was cancelled by President Kennedy, who had been inaugurated three months prior to the operation. Without the promised air support, and with the two vessels sunk containing the required backup ammunition and communication equipment, the brigade was left to their own resources to repel the counterattack they knew was coming. For three days they fought bravely on, until completely out of ammunition, the living that remained were forced to surrender. Kennedy, setting the precedent for all future Democrat Presidents, blamed the disaster upon the preceding Republican administration. He claimed he had been poorly briefed about the operation, and had he been aware of it's shortcomings he would have called it off. This, of course, was a complete lie meant to cover up his own cowardly failure to deliver on the promised air support, but the adoring American public and the fawning press bought it.

What if? is a question that has been asked many times since the Bay of Pigs debacle, and is just as valid a question today as it was sixty years ago. Cuba remains today in the clutches of a corrupt and brutal government, and without outside military intervention, it is destined to remain that way, and the unfortunate citizens there will continue to starve, suffer, and die.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Trickle Down Incompetence!

July 12, 2021

An incompetent in the Oval Office gives us an incompetent administration and none worse than the following three. The Carter administration gave us the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the disastrous rescue attempt, along with numerous lesser failures. The George W. Bush administration gave us a complete failure of the occupation of Iraq under his designed Supreme Authority, Paul Bremmer; and an equally disastrous response by FEMA immediately following Hurricane Katrina. His FEMA Director, Michael Brown, with little or no emergency disaster experience, proved totally incapable of the job almost immediately after being assured by the President that "You're doing a good job Brownie!" Replaced by Lt. General Russell Honre, who took over utilizing the 82nd Airborne, law and order in New Orleans and surrounding Louisiana was soon reestablished. Now we have a President in the brain deficient Joe Biden, proving himself in only six months to be even more incompetent than the previous two. Of the numerous crisis's presently confronting him, the open hemorrhage at our Southern Border is by far the worst. A flow of illegal aliens, including murderers, criminals of all ilk, unaccompanied children, sex traffic victims, drugs of all descriptions, and possible terrorist, are coursing into our country like an open arterial flow. To add insult to injury, Biden appointed his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to take charge of the crisis, and for nearly 100 days, in spite of numbers pleas by Republicans and Democrats alike for her to visit the border to access the crisis firsthand, she did nothing. Nothing until Donald Trump announced his own border visit and in order to beat him to the border 93 days after her appointment she traveled to El Paso. Though El Paso is indeed a border city, it's at least 100 miles from the crisis epicenter, and the visit turned into nothing more than a photo op. With no end in sight Biden could easily call on General Honre, or another man of his proven ability, to take charge, but that would cut the ground from under his incompetent Vice President, and dramatize his own incompetence for appointing her in the first place. When it comes to what may happen next your guess is as good as mine.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

It Ain't No Lie!

July 11, 2021

An old Italian grandfather, imparting the wisdom of his years to his grandson, emphasized to him, "You can sometimes trust a thief but you can never trust a liar!" In my own life I have found this to be true. Which brings us to the subject of what Democrats, RINOs, liberals, and all of the fake news outlets are calling The Big Lie. The Big Lie being Donald Trump's claim, that the election was rigged and the Presidency stolen from him. We are constantly bombarded with their story 24/7. Their problem is at the very least one-third of Americans believe Donald Trump, and the percentage is probably much higher if you throw in all those that believe it but are reluctant to say so. If their story is true this could all be put to rest by one simple expedient that would restore harmony throughout the land and bipartisanship in the Halls of Congress, just conduct an impartial audit in every state, county, and district in question. This is the one thing, however, that they don't want to do, and are fighting efforts to conduct these audits with ever legal, and illegal, blocking method they can devise. The Truth, as they say, will set you free, but in this case, The Truth would throw the entire country into revolt, with no method of restoring the rightful President and his administration short of armed overthrow, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Democrats would have to go to jail.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Oh Justice Where Art Thou?

July 5, 2021

“Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans", by T.R. Fehrenbach is a marvelous book well worth reading. Not only for the accurate and detailed accounts he lays out, but also for the sheer pleasure of reading a fabulous story. In the book the account of the murder of Indian Agent Robert Neighbors is told. Neighbors had just accompanied the forceable, and brutal, relocation of Indian Tribes into Oklahoma by the Texas Rangers. Upon return, while in conversation, he was approached from behind by Ed Cornett, a man he'd never met, and shot in the back. I now quote directly from the book: It was "not possible" to bring Cornett to trial. But on the other hand, it was not permissible on the frontier to shoot a white man, even an Indian Agent, in the back. John Cochran and Ben R. Milan got together some "Minute Men." This group convened a "court" in April, 1860, months after the murder, and went after Cornett. He "made fight" on Salt Creek, as one of the members of this posse said, and all accounts agree that Ed Cornett was brought to justice without benefit of judge and jury.”

It is obvious beyond a shadow of a doubt that if criminals are to be indicted, arrested, and brought to trial in this country our Citizens must look elsewhere than the Department of Justice. The most high profile individuals in Federal Custody over the past twenty years are as follows:

Whitey Bulger: Mobster and Murderer, sentenced to life in prison, he was murdered there by inmates unknown with the connivance of prison officials.

Bernie Madoff: White Collar Criminal, massive Ponzi Scheme operator, died in prison.

Martha Stewart: Innocent victim of an FBI setup, served her sentence.

Lori Loughlin: Actress and Producer, victim of.a con scheme to get her daughter into an exclusive university, another FBI setup, served her sentence.

Jeffrey Epstein: Pedophile and Sex Trafficer, murdered in Federal Custody prior to trial, knew too much about high profile Deep State connected individuals and had to be silenced. 'Dead men tell no tales!'

Ghislaine Maxwell: Girlfriend and Procuress for Jeffery Epstein, held in custody and denied bail, only pimp in country denied bail, harassed constantly in hope she'll be driven to suicide, must be silenced for same reason as Epstein, final outcome pending.

There you have it, not a politically connected or high ranking government official in the lot. No need to name them, every honest man in the country knows of whom I'm speaking. As in the murder of Robert Neighbors, only way justice will be served is through the actions of Minute Men. If you look to the Department of Justice for action you will be waiting for all eternity!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

You can fool some of the people all the time!

July 1, 2021

“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

The above is a famous quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. The absolute truth of it is beyond question. We can obviously group most Liberals and Democrats with the people that are fooled all the time. The most recent glaring examples are the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory. That both are utter fabricated nonsense is obvious to anyone that has any real knowledge of American History, but the aforementioned are buying them hook, line, and sinker. TheIr mouthpieces in the fake news are going right along with them in spreading this disinformation nationwide. The sole intent and purpose of these contrived subjects is to further Racism in the country as a tool to advance Democrat political hold on various minority groups that they play to their benefit in elections to continue, and hopefully cement, their control on power.
The stupidity and gullibility of most Americans is beyond question. Twice they elected Barack Hussein Obama as President of our country. That he was completely unqualified by what little we were able to learn of his background, by his radical unAmerican associations, and his own utterances and and ghost written books, should have been obvious, but yet he was elected. The fact that his two opponents Republicans chose to oppose him were men of such small stature also played it's part. During his eight years in office the country was subjected to the most corruption and criminality that America has ever endured. He advanced the evil of Racism to a level not seen since the violent days of desegregation in the 50's and 60's. To add insult to injury the evil that he spawned lives on after him in his judicial appointments, a multitude of government employees, good military officers and men forced into retirement and replaced with sycophants and yes men, and the scum from his administration continuously spouting his lies from fake news platforms. And this is not to mention his own lies and racists comments he advances every time he's in front of a TV camera.

The present administration, fraudulently elected, and allowed to get away with it, is nothing but a continuation of Obama's maladministration, and in fact, the brain-dead Joe Biden, may be getting his orders from none other than Obama himself. Not content to live in splendor, financed by the fortune he amassed from God knows where, Obama continues to inject his poison until our entire political system is septic, and the evil system he spawned can rule dictatorially over a repressive police state for eternity.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Plant

June 30, 2021

The most well known, and most successful, Double Agent in history was Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve Disciples of Jesus, who betrayed his Master to the Sanhedrin, which led to the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Many other Double Agents have played their nefarious part in history up to and including the present day.

The two most infamous Soviet Spies that played a crucial role in betraying Allied plans during WWII and the Cold War were Richard Sorge and Kim Philby, both of which were planted in positions of great responsibility that gave them access to intelligence requiring the highest level of security.

Richard Sorge was a German born in Russia, though his family returned to Germany when he was quite young. He grew up a patriotic Germany who received the Iron Cross for his service in WWI. Disillusioned by war he became a Communist, eventually becoming a Spy for Soviet Secret Service. He bounced around Europe and Asia in his positions as a Journalist and in 1929, on orders from Moscow, joined the NAZI party and played his part well in appearing a fervent member. Ordered later to Japan he secured the position as prime correspondent for Germany's leading newspaper. His position, knowledge of the Japanese language and mindset, and appearance as a loyal NAZI, soon gave him access to Germany's military atache and free run of the Germany embassy. With this access and additional information from his circle of spies and informants, he was able to provide critical intelligence to his Soviet masters. Found out in 1941 he was tortured into confession and hanged in 1945.

Kim Philby was an Englishman that became a Communist while a student at Cambridge University along with four of his fellow students. His outstanding efforts as a Journalist enabled him to join British Intelligence during WWII and he climbed the ladder to high positions during the war and subsequent Cold War. During this period he constantly provided valuable information to Moscow. Falling under suspicion he left the intelligence service and returned to his position as Journalist, later receiving a declaration of innocence from the Prime Minister. Again coming under suspicion, he was able to tip off two of his fellow Cambridge spies prior to their arrest that allowed them to escape to Russia, and he soon followed, where he lived out his days.

Donald Trump assumed the Office of President with a strong business background but a far from perfect knowledge of the intricacies of Washington politics. This led to his appointing many officials that had to be replaced for falling short on performance. He also underestimated the disloyalty of many in government service from previous administrations. Constantly attacked within and without, he had to fight for every inch of gain that improved the strength of our country and the lot of American Citizens. His second most disastrous appointment was of Jeff Sessions to the Office of Attorney General. Sessions had been an early supporter of his campaign and seemed a wise choice with his strong background as a Prosecutor and U.S.Senator. He proved a disaster, an incompetent fool who was putty in the hands of disloyal officials in the Justice Department. He had to be fired but far too late. The damage he did there, like evil, lives on long after him. After arduous search for his replacement, the President settled on William 'Bill' Barr. Barr was a Republican, a Conservative, a strong advocate against crime, and he had already occupied the office for fourteen months during the Bush administration. With that background the Democrats strongly opposed him in the Senate but he was ultimately confirmed. At first he seemed an ideal appointment when he soon brought the fraudulent Mueller investigation, which had been based on a a total lie, to conclusion, exonerating President Trump in the process. Just as Richard Sorge had played the part of ardent NAZI, Barr played the part of a strong supporter of the President, when all along he was a member of the Deep State. This should have become obvious when he assured the Country that the murder of Jeffrey Epstein while in Federal custody was indeed a suicide. Only recently have we learned that when the President wanted to fire the inept and dishonest Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, Barr threatened to resign, thereby protecting a fellow Deep State operative. When the election of Joe Biden occurred with the benefit of massive fraud of a magnitude never previously see in this country, Barr declared that though there had been irregularities, they were not of sufficient volume to have offset the Biden victory. This statement was entirely off the top of his head, because there had been no investigation whatsoever by the FBI or the Justice Department of the voluminous frauds observed and reported. His nefarious work done on behalf of the Deep State, and rather than serve as our Country's Head Law Enforcement Office until properly replaced, he retired just before Christmas citing a desire to spend time with his family. Now he's trying to cash in on his treachery with a book spouting the same lie that you hear daily from Democrats, RINOs, and Fake News, that the Biden victory was completely legitimate and the Trump claim that he won is nothing but a lie. Barr has proved himself the most corrupt and dishonest Attorney General in the History of the United States and should be reviled and despised by every decent American until the day he dies.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

License to Kill

May 22, 2021

In 1952 British Author Ian Fleming began writing Spy Novels based upon his experiences as a Naval Intelligence Officer in WWII, and upon the experiences of other Secret Agents he had known. The first book, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and became a sensation. The book centered on the exploits of Secret Agent James Bond of MI6. The success led to eleven other novels and two short story collections up to 1966, when Fleming died, and the book's popularity soon took the stories to stage and screen. Of the books many fans one was none other than President John F. Kennedy. The character of James Bond has become one of the most famous in literature, and the series of books and movies continues to this day, with other authors continuing to write the novels. James Bond was most famously portrayed on the screen by the great Scottish actor, Sean Connery. He became the idol of adventure loving boys and romantic young women the World over. Bond's identifying number in MI6 was 007, pronounced as Double O Seven. The 00, or Double O, indicated he was licensed to kill in his service of the Crown when the situation warranted. This part of the stories, though fictional, was only utilized upon foreign enemies of Great Britain and Civilization at large.

In more recent days it has become obvious that a genuine License to Kill has been granted to Agents of the present U.S. Government. During the events of January 6th this year, in Washington, D.C., one of the many trespassers that wandered into the Capital Building, was shot and killed. She was a Lady from San Diego, Ashli Babbitt by name, who had come to Washington that day to show support for President Donald Trump, the President that had been defeated in the recent election by the most massive fraud ever to occur in U.S. Politics. She, at the time was unarmed and presenting no physical threat to anyone. She was attempting to crawl through a broken window into another part of the building. Without warning of any kind, an unidentified Capital Police Officer leveled his weapon, and at point blank range, shot her in the throat, killing her within minutes. It was in no way for protection of the Capital Building, nor of Congressmen and other government officials in the building, it was nothing less than cold blooded murder. The Officer, however, was neither charged nor suspended, and though his name has been kept secret by the government to this day, it has been revealed by private investigation. The assassin is Capital Police Officer David Bailey, and he has been completely exonerated by the Justice Department, declaring the act completely justified in the performance of his duty.

Unlike the fictional 007 designation of James Bond that represented a License to Kill, this present licensing of U.S. Agents to kill is deadly serious, and unlike James Bond, who only slew foreign enemies in defense of his country, the present authorization allows for the murder of political opponents of the present Administration. There is blood on their hands, not only of the present Administration, but of everyone in government service that approved and condoned this foul deed, and the ghost of the murdered Ashli Babbitt cries out for revenge.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

All I Know is What I Read in the Papers

May 22, 2021

And the rest of the famous Will Rogers quote goes, " …and that's an alibi for my ignorance."
When the topic on the news is something you are familiar with you realize how inaccurate the reporting often is, and many times dead wrong.

On the first Saturday of this month the Kentucky Derby returned to its traditional spot on the calendar after a year of interruption due to the Chinese Flu. It was a glorious day for racing, and the crowd was in an ebullient mood. It promised to be a good betting race, as there was no one overwhelming favorite and several colts were given a fighting chance. Bob Baffert had an entry, as he has most years going back over twenty years, and he's won the race six times, tying him for the record with Calumet's Ben Jones. This year though, his colt, Medina Spirit, wasn't so well fancied, being fifth on the odds board. He had started the year as the #3 Derby prospect in Baffert's talent loaded stable. However, his #1 went out with injury, then #2 turned in a disappointing effort in the Arkansas Derby, so a colt that had sold for a mere $1,000 as a yearling came off the bench.

The field was away without major incident, though there is always some bumping and jostling in a field of twenty horses. Baffert's colt hustled immediately to the lead under the masterful hands of Champion jockey Johnny Velazquez. He continued his lead as the race progressed through the first turn and into the backstretch, fending off challenges all the way. As the field rolled into the stretch the battle began in earnest. Medina Spirit remained on top but two colts were breathing down his neck. Try though they may, the leader refused to yield and crossed the finish line a half-length to the good. This victory broke the tie with Ben Jones and made Bob Baffert the undisputed Derby Winning Trainer of all time with seven victories.

It was a happy time for the winning connections for just over a week, then came the unexpected news, Medina Spirit's blood test had come back positive for the drug, Betamethasone. This alarmed Baffert no end, because he knew the colt had never been treated with the drug, which is a therapeutic used to reduce swelling in an injured joint. The next day he was viciously attacked by Churchill Downs management, rushing to judgement in the extreme, and accusing him of cheating. Additionally they declared all his horses ineligible to race at the track until further notice. Almost immediately, and based upon no evidence whatsoever, he was attacked by knee jerks in fake news for doping his colt to stimulate greater effort. Nothing could have been further from the truth, Betamethasone is in no way a stimulant, it is a pure and simple therapeutic medication, and it is allowed for use in racing horses up to the two weeks prior to a race. How he got the medication in his system was the mystery, until subsequent investigation revealed he had been treated for some time for a fungal infection on his hindquarters right up to the day before the race with a topical salve called Otomax. As it turns out, the salve has a minuscule amount of Betamethasone in the mix. Chemical testing procedure have been refined to the point that a grain of salt in the sugar bowl can be detected, but to imagine this has any noticeable effect would be ludicrous.  By the same token the miniscule amount of Betamethasone in the Otomax had no effect whatsoever on the outcome. Unfortunately drug regulations are written by racing bureaucrats, with little or no input from veterinary science. Consequently, a regulation that might be made reasonable and fair, is carried to the extreme for a trace of a drug that had zero effect on the race. The colt won the race fair and square, and entirely on his own courage and ability. To disqualify his victory would be a travesty of justice. To put the matter in layman's perspective, it would be like denying a man a Gold Medal in the Olympics because he had been using a salve for his Athlete's Foot.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Fix of The Century

Definition of fix

: to influence the actions, outcome, or effect of by improper or illegal methods

The 20th Century Fix

March 26, 2021

In the World Series of 1919 the Chicago White Sox of the American League were strongly favored to defeat the Cincinnati Reds of the National League. There was, however, dissention on the White Sox team due to the stinginess of the owner of the club and his highhanded treatment of the team. Professional gamblers approached some of the more disgruntled members of the team and persuaded them to throw the series in exchange for a substantial cash payment. Be aware that professional ball players of that era received nothing like the huge salaries of today, and an inducement of this sort was a much greater temptation. As for the gamblers involved, odds are so determined that the bookmakers taking the bets are guaranteed a reasonable profit regardless who wins. When the defeat of one team is preordained, however, their profits become astronomical. Without going into intimate details of the fix and the subsequent results, the Reds won the series, and the gamblers made money hand over fist. The players involved were found out and prosecuted for their part in the fix, however, a verdict of Not Guilty came down when pertinent evidence of the players guilt mysteriously disappeared, The players didn't get off Scott Free, however, as they were subsequently banned for life from professional baseball. The affair became known as the Black Sox Scandal, and is unquestionably considered the Fix of the Twentieth Century.

The 21st Century Fix

The Presidential election of November 3rd, 1920, began honestly enough, and by late evening it was seemingly obvious that Donald Trump would be comfortably reelected. Odds makers in Las Vegas reacted by shifting odds on the outcome of the election in favor of the Trump ticket, while the day had started with the Biden ticket a slight favorite. Surprisingly however, vote counting in a number of battleground states was simultaneously halted for the night. When vote counting began again the following day, and in the few days after, massive numbers of votes for the Biden ticket mysteriously appeared. The sheer volume of these votes defied all reason, whether by statistical analysis, the judgment of voting experts, and numbers of voters relative to numbers registered. On top of this evidence the exclusion of poll watchers and steps to obscure their view, video observation of suspicious activities during vote counting, mysterious deliveries of ballots, irregular movement of U.S. Postal Service trucks carrying thousands of ballots from state to state, and indications that voting machines had been tampered with to switch votes from Trump to Biden, all added up to massive election fraud. Subsequent legal efforts to obtain observable vote audits, and void Unconstitutional changes of voting rules prior to election day, all were thwarted by corrupt or cowardly Judges and government officials. No verifiable audits of ballots in states where massive irregularities took place has occurred, or likely ever will. Top this with the reluctance of cowardly Republicans to fight for honesty in the election process, and a media so corrupted that they ignored all evidence of fraud and proclaimed Biden the unquestioned President elect, and continue to trumpet the claim that the election was entirely honest to this day. When the Attorney General proclaimed that though there were voting irregularities, they were insufficient to overcome the outcome, a statement made with little or no investigation of the irregularities having occurred, you knew the Justice Department was just as corrupt as the day Donald Trump first took office. We now have the two complete frauds occupying the highest offices in the land and every honest and decent American is a victim.

The first fraud was to the benefit of the gamblers orchestrating the fix. The second was to the benefit of corrupt politicians and government officials that had been robbing the public treasury for years and had seen their cash flow cut off by an honest Donald Trump. The victims of the first fraud were the men that bet on sporting events, and there were hundreds of thousands of them all across the land. Victims of the second fraud were every Citizen in America and everyone anywhere in the World looking to America as a Beacon of Freedom.

A look at the betting on the election also gives substantial evidence of fraud. It is obvious that Las Vegas gamblers and odds makers had no idea the fix was in when polls opened on election day. Biden was a slight favorite at that time but once vote counts and results began coming in, odds shifted to favoring Trump and reached the highest point at 10:30 pm on election day when Trump's win probability hit 88.57 %. That was the high water mark, and once the vote counts began coming in again the following morning, and as of 7:30 a.m Biden’s odds had him at 90% probability to win the presidency. What investigators should have looked at, were substantial bets coming in for Biden when Trump's chances of winning appeared greatest, and that would take you straight to the parties who were privy to the fix. So far as I know this hasn't been done.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Let The Disaster Begin

January 25, 2021

The fraudulently elected President of the United States, Joe Biden, is moving at warp speed to nullify every positive accomplishment made for our country over the past four years. Of course he's not calling the shots, he just reads what he's told to say from the teleprompter. God knows what evil manipulators are pulling his strings. Nevertheless, enemy foreign states, the bane of civilization the World over, have rushed to congratulate him on his susposed election to the position as Leader of the Free World. That includes China, that strives to dominate and rule the World both economically and militarily; Venezuela, led by a man as evil and incompetent as anyone in recent history, who is slowly starving his citizens to death in a manner not seen since Joseph Stalin ruled Russia; and Iran, that will soon have the green light to continue development of a nuclear weapon for their avowed purpose of destroying Israel, our staunchest ally in the World. Also overjoyed are U.N. Agencies salivating over the soon to be opened floodgates of U.S. Taxpayer money into the trough from which they feed. Millions of this money will be allocated as blood money for the murder of unborn babies in the womb. He has cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, that would have funneled Canadian crude oil to American refineries to the massive benefit of both nations, throwing thousands out of work. And this is only one step in his avowed purpose of destroying the fossil fuel industry for the specious purpose of halting, and reversing global warming. Illegal aliens, many of them criminal or perverted, have been ordered released unaccounted for into the general public. Boys can again be girls, free to compete unfairly in women's athletics, and to use whichever rest roon they desire. Obama, and others from his criminal administration will now rest easy knowing they will never be called to account for their crimes and their Treason.The Justice Department, the FBI, and Federal Prosecutors will turn from the pursuit of Justice, much neglected since the Clinton administration anyway, to the criminalization and persecution of the administration's political enemies. America is no longer a beacon of freedom and justice to the world's unfortunate that are shackled and chained in their own lands, she is just another Third World Country, ruled by tyrants and thieves, and for sale to the highest bidder!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

You Are Not To Be Trusted

January 19, 2021

Federal Goons are vetting the National Guard, all 25,000 that are there in Washington to protect the incoming President and his administration from a Citizenry that is fully aware that his election was a total fraud. The men of the Guard, the majority of them, have served our country honorable in the various wars in which our armed forces have been engaged over the past twenty years or so. If these men can’t be trusted whom can be? The men of the Guard are part of the Armed Forces of the United States, answerable only to their military superiors, not to a bunch of goons sent in to interrogate them. Commanding Officers of the various State Guards in Washington should refuse to participate, and if ordered to do so, Governors of their States should protest vehemently and demand their return to their home states. Men of the Guard should refuse to answer a single question from any FBI goon that confronts them. This is a damnable outrage comparable to what happened in NAZI Germany prior to WWII, and everyone should be aware of it.

God damn the incoming Biden administration and everyone involved in aiding and abetting this totally corrupt and fraudulent election that has created the greatest crisis our Citizens have faced since the War Between the States!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

All You Need To Know

January 16, 2021

In looking at gun sales in the U.S.you are being fooled if you're buying the lies told you by most politicians and the media. Handguns are purchased primarily for personal defense, rifles and shotguns, though sometimes for defense, usually for hunting and sport shooting. Take a look at the following graph and think about the reasons for the accelerated rate of purchases of weapons over the past twenty years.

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Though there are numerous spikes in the graph related to alarming incidents, take only into consideration the general trend. From 1995 through 2008, sales grew at a steady rate. In 2008, the year Barack Hussein Obama was elected President, the purchase rate grew significantly. Was this because Americans felt less safe under his administration perhaps? The rate dropped around 2012, then rose again sharply in 2016. Was this because of fear of Donald Trump and his administration, or a consequence of the rise in crime and violence, primarily in Democrat controlled states and cities? Now, with Trump voted out of office due to a vast conspiracy and a fraudulent election, hangun sales are through the roof. It can't be they're buying these guns because they're afraid of Donald Trump, he'll be gone in four days. Could it be they fear the incoming President and his administration? I do!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Dirty Little Coward!

January 13, 2021

When Donald Trump and Melania descended the escalator in Trump Towers and he threw his hat in the ring for the Presidential race, he entered an environment with which he was only peripherally familiar, the world of national politics. He forged straight ahead, undeterred by the obstacles ahead, and ultimately was swept to victory, dashing the dreams of the despicable Hillary Clinton to become President of the United States. An electorate, fed up with the lies and broken promises of Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party, threw their support to Trump and sent him to the White House. In abject defeat Democrats realized that they not only had underestimated him, but they had fallen for their own lies about his unelectablity. Their machinations against him had began even prior to his primary victory, but they soon rose to levels not seen since Medieval Europe. No sooner had his hand come off The Bible after taking the oath of office, that the lies, the accusations, and the vitriolic attacks began. Undeterred he continued, making every effort to deliver on his promise to make America great again. He made mistakes, of course, especially in selection of men necessary to achieve his objectives, but strove to replace them with more capable executives. Thwarted at every turn by corrupt individuals in the Judiciary, Government, and the Media, he yet made great progress, and America became stronger, safer, more respected, and economically sound. Had the country not been struck by a deadly virus emanating from a Chinese biological warfare laboratory, the corrupt vote counts that were used to deny his victory on November 3rd could not have succeeded.

One of the beloved songs of my childhood was The Ballad of Jesse James, verses of the song go as follows:

"Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man,
he robbed the Glendale train.
He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor,
with a head, and a heart, and a brain.

Jesse had a wife, the joy of his life,
three children they were brave;
but the Dirty Little Coward, that shot Mr. Howard,
has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

It was on a Saturday night, Jesse was at home,
talking with his family brave.
When Robert Ford came along, like a thief in the night,
and laid Jesse James in his grave.

It was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward
I wonder how he did feel;
For he ate of Jesse's bread, and he slept in Jesse's bed
Then he laid poor Jesse in his grave.

The people held their breath when they heard of Jesse's death,
and wondered how he came to die;
It was one of the gang called little Robert Ford
He shot poor Jesse on the sly."

Jesse James was living in St. Joseph, Missouri with his family under the alias of Mr. Howard and contemplating full retirement. His brother Frank had already left the business and moved to Tennessee. Robert Ford had conspired with the Governor of the State to kill Jesse for the reward, and as his brother Charlie had been on one robbery with the James Gang, was welcomed into the home as a guest. He bidded his time awaiting his opportunity to commit his foul deed. In the living room one evening Jesse noticed a picture had gotten dusty. He took off his gunbelt, stepped onto a chair and turned to the wall to dust the picture. With Jesse unarmed and with his back turned, Ford seized his opportunity and shot his host in the back and killed him. Ford thus became the standard for treachery and cowardice, and is known to this day throughout the World as the Dirty Little Coward.

Donald Trump restored the Republican Party to greatness and many rose to office because of his accomplishments and support. Many owed the successes of their political careers to Trump. When his reelection victory was stolen from him in November every Republican in the country knew it. They should have arisen en mass to support him and press for reversal of the outcome. Sadly only a handful proved worthy, and when Congress convened to receive electoral votes from the various States and they rose in opposition to votes from the States where the frauds had occurred, the cowards in the Republican Party refused to join them. Their acquiescence in approving the fraudulent election result places them in the same company as Robert Ford. Dirty Little Cowards the lot of them.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Round Up The Usual Suspects!

January 11, 2021

Today finds the FBI out in full force all across the country arresting persons identified as having entered the Capital building on January 6th subsequent to breaching of building security. As they have been doing since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, they are putting on a big show for public consumption. All this goes on while the real criminals in the country sleep soundly in their beds, knowing that the only man who could have required they face punishment for their crimes will soon be gone from public office, likely forever.

The FBI has been involved in criminal activities since the days of Hoover, but only in recent years has it directed it's efforts toward suppression of Presidential authority, and attempts to have him removed from office by their criminal manipulations. Hoover was only interested in maintaining the power and prestige of his organization that he played the greatest part in molding, and in remaining at it's head for life. Subsequent Directors, of corrupt and immoral character, with underlings of their ilk raised to positions of power in the organization subordinate only to the Director's,  have perverted the organization into a virtual Gestapo at the service of it's political masters. No more is it an organization for the detection and suppression of crime.

We have just witnessed the greatest crime in the history of our Republic, far greater in fact, than the war against Saddam Hussein, launched upon the fraudulent claim that he possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction. The present crime was committed against ever man, woman, and child in America, and innumerable generations yet to come. The crime was the blatant theft of a lawful election result, and the soon to be inauguration of a corrupt and total fraud.

The election on November 3rd began honestly enough, and by late evening it was obvious, even to oddsmakers in Las Vegas, that Donald Trump would be comfortably reelected. Surprisingly however, vote counting in a number of battleground states was simultaneously halted for the night. When vote counting began again the following day, and in the few days after, massive numbers of votes for the Biden/Harris ticket mysteriously appeared. The sheer volume of these votes defied all reason, whether by statistical analysis, the judgment of voting experts, and numbers of voters relative to numbers registered. On top of this evidence the exclusion of poll watchers and steps to obscure their view, video observation of suspicious activities during vote counting, mysterious deliveries of ballots, irregular movement of U.S. Postal Service trucks carrying thousands of ballots from state to state, and indications that voting machines had been tampered with to switch votes from Trump to Biden, all added up to massive election fraud. Subsequent legal efforts to obtain observable vote audits, and void Unconstitutional changes of voting rules prior to election, all were thwarted by corrupt or unwilling Judges and government officials. No verifiable audits of ballots in states where massive irregularities has occurred or likely ever will. Top this with the reluctance of cowardly Republicans to fight for honesty in the election process, and we now have two complete frauds that will assume the two highest offices in the land, all rubber stamped by Congress.

The FBI and the Justice Department have played their parts throughout Trump's term in office. A brainless twit of an Attorney General allowed a fraudulent Special Counsel to be appointed for the sole purpose of trying to frame the President with the lie of Russian Collusion. With no evidence whatsoever against the President they finally had to give it up, though they managed to frame several of the President's associates on phony charges, and they wrapped it up with equally phony allegations of Obstruction of Justice against the President, that they claimed they could not obtain sufficient evidence to convict on the charge because it had been destroyed or hidden from them. Multitudes of demands for legal access to documents held have been stonewalled, redacted, or deleted and destroyed. The Hunter Biden laptop that came into the possession of the FBI almost a year ago, remained hidden from view, though containing evidence of criminal misconduct by Hunter Biden and his father, until the plan for the fraudulent election was executed. Now after the violent entry into the Capital when insufficient security was in place, though sufficient security was on hand but deemed unnecessary by incompetent officials, there are serious allegations that ANTIFA in Trump supporter disguise made up a big part of the assault and forced entry, I seriously doubt any will be located other than by private means. The FBI will go after the low hanging fruit, including the many peaceful protesters that just wandered in for a look around when they saw the doors wide open.

With more outrages against the President, his supporters, and Conservatives in general taking place by the minute, it's looking more and more like the only way Law, Order, and Justice will ever be returned in our country will be by armed rebellion by honest patriotic Citizens.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

He Is Near, He Is Hard By The Door!

January 9, 2021

The title of this message is a quote from the 24th Chapter of Matthew, and it pertains to the coming of the Antichrist. January 20th marks his return. His coming was twelve years earlier, when Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated. Great efforts were made during his years of criminal administration to completely destroy our country, and it was only slowed and somewhat prevented because Republicans controlled the Senate. With Democrat control of both Houses, and an administration composed of Socialist, Communist, and traitorous scum, many from Obama administrations, every positive reversal of the damage done by Obama and his accomplices by the Trump Administration will be nullified and reversed, and the rapid destruction of our Constitutional rights, and our Country's power, prestige, and economic might, will again go into sharp decline.

When the illegitimately elected President Biden, and Vice President Harris take the oath of office on The Holy Bible on January 20th, meaningless words to them, the destruction will commence before the Sun goes down. The crime that was committed against every man, woman, and child in our Country during the wee hours of November 4th and the few days afterwards, will be complete. The last chance to prevent the execution of this crime vanished on January 6th when Congress met in joint session to receive electoral votes of the various States. Cowardly and corrupt Republicans refused to stand in opposition to the corrupt votes of the States where the fraudulent votes had overcome the Trump victory, and a cowardly Vice President refused to exercise his Constitutional Right to return the decision of States with opposing slates of electors to the respective State Legislatures for decision. When men stand in cowed silence and concession, evil prevails, and commencing on January 20th Hell will again be in session!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Fat Fraud Comes Out Of The Closet!

January 7, 2021

William Barr was Donald Trump's Attorney General for one year, ten months, and nine days before he resigned rather than do his job. Not that he'd ever done much of a job there anyway, but he sometimes presented a pretty good facade. The first inkling that he was nothing but a fraud occurred when Jeffrey Epstein, the most high profile prisoner in Federal custody, was murdered on his watch. Epstein died alone in his cell, unobserved, unmonitered, and under most suspicious circumstances. No one believed it, not his personal attorneys that met with him daily, not the World famous Forensic Pathologist that observed his autopsy at Biden Family request, nor his former companion and procuress Ghlislaine Maxwell that had likely known him better than anyone. However, after a supposedly thorough investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department, Barr declared it was indeed a suicide. The second inkling was when the reelection of Donald Trump appeared imminent, when out of the dark of the night and in subsequent days came massive troves of votes, for his opponent, Joe Biden that threw the election the other way. No legitimate and honest man in the nation believed Biden's victory legitimate,  but Barr, the Justice Department, and the FBI did nothing. Oh Barr issued a statement that Federal Prosecutors could look into the matter in the States they were responsible for, but they quickly appreciated his real intent and did nothing. When queried by reporters Barr declared that while there had been irregularities in the voting process they were not of sufficient number to alter the outcome. None in the news media was bothered enough to inquire into the evidence that may have substantiated his declaration, if, in fact, any existed. Now, the day after the most peaceful protest in our nation's history gathered in Washington in pursuit of Justice on the day Congress met in joint session to certify the electoral vote counts of the States, he declares, "The President's conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and his supporters!" No, you fat fraud, the office betrayed was the office of Attorney General in which you corruptly sat until your abrupt resignation. Every honest Republican and Trump supporter in the country should be aware that you were never anything other than a clever tool of your masters in the Deep State. You have indeed come out of the closet and your name will now live in infamy as the most corrupt of the many corrupt individuals to have infested the Office of Attorney General!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

Now Is The Time For All Good Men
To Come To The Aid Of Our Country!

January 4, 2021

I know of not one intelligent and honest man that believes the victory of the Biden/Harris ticket was legitimate. Intelligent, and dishonest men know it just as well as the aforementioned, but,for whatever traitorous, corrupt, or perverted reason, declare otherwise. If they're successful in perpetuation of this fraud we have seen the end of honest government in our lifetime. Taxes will become sky high for all but the freeloader, and especially for the most productive; the Southern Border wall will become a seive and the land will overflow with illegals, criminals, and drugs; our now powerful military will wither on the vine and become a joke to powerful Chinese military forces; China will again become the World economic powerhouse; the successes of the Trump Administration will be undone and the disasters of Obama reinstated; the agreement for Iran to develop nuclear weapons, and the Paris Climate Accord, reinstated, and worst of all, Criminals of the Obama Administration will escape prosecution for their crimes. The so-called Justice Department, that has failed America for decades, will again become (Government) Organized Crime, and the Witch Hunt will begin for legally owned weapons, Donald Trump, his friends, and members of his family. The time will come when the only resource to Justice will be for honest men to act, as they did so many years ago after the foul murder of Robert Neighbors in Texas, and in Athen, Tennessee after WWII against corrupt county officials.

January 6th is now D-Day in Washington, D.C. when the joint session of Congress convenes to receive electoral votes from the States. The five States where the fraudulent votes overcame a Trump victory will be in contention because of dual slates of electors. Regardless of outcome we will learn that day which Republicans are honest, have a spine, and can stand on their hind legs and fight, and which are craven cowards or closet members of the Deep State. No decent American should ever have any regard or use for the latter. The time has come for all honest Americans that love their country to stand with their President and fight for our land!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2021

The Man Who Knew Too Much!

December 29, 2020

The life of Jeffrey Epstein remains shrouded in mystery. The source of his vast wealth; the goings on at his private Carribean estate, aka Pedophile Island; his celebrity friends activities when visiting his estate or his various residences in various places around the world; and most especially the circumstances surrounding his alleged suicide while in Federal custody. The FBI has raided his numerous properties, seized business and bank records, and questioned all his numerous employees, gatering vast accumulations of potentially incriminating evidence in the process, and all we know is he had a painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress. His alleged suicide is universally disbelieved, and the only support for this story comes from government officials, including the recently retired Attorney General, Bill Barr. Epstein's attorneys, that met with him daily, do not believe it; the world renowned Forensic Pathologist who participated in the autopsy at request of the Epstein family found his injuries far more consistent with murder than suicide; and his now infamous procuress, Ghislaine Maxwell, herself in Federal custody, denied bail, and fearing for her own life there, neither believes it suicide. The so-called Justice Department, in recent years under control of corrupt, and/or incompetent administration, has become a place where evidence goes to disappear and die, especially if it concerns a member of the Deep State. If however, you are on their Enemies List like General Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos, you will be set up and prosecuted to the maximum. High profile individuals without political connection are also their prey, like Martha Stewart and Lori Loughlin.

Jeffrey Epstein knew far too much, he knew where all the bodies were buried so to speak. He was a pervert and a pedophile and there's no telling what evidence he'd accumulated against his high profile guests that shared his predelicions. When he unexpectedly fell into legal custody, thinking himself safe when he flew into the country from France, and was formally charged with massive crimes and denied bail, they knew they were in trouble. What if he talked? No one was more alarmed than former President Bill Clinton. His predilection for underage girls went all the way back to his Arkansas days when he attended the notorious parties at Dan Lassiter's. He had made twenty-six flights on the so-called Lolita Express to Epstein's island and no one thinks he was there to play Crockey or Tiddlywinks. Individuals that have crossed the Clintons have suffered various degrees of ill fortune up to and including accidental death. No one had more dirt on Bill Clinton than Jeffrey Epstein and Clinton knew it. Draw your own conclusions!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION!

December 14, 2020

This afternoon Attorney General, Bill Barr, answered that question, he preferred to resign in disgrace rather than be fired for failure to do his job. When the chips were down he folded like a cheap suit. He failed, not only the President, but the American People as well, whom it was his sworn duty to protect. In effect he played his part in the fraudulent election of Joe Biden by keeping hid verifiable information on an investigation into the criminal dealings of Joe Biden's son Hunter that in all likelihood implicate his father, the President Elect. Worse, when the election was stolen in the wee hours of night by criminal activities in the States of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, he failed to launch a serious Justice Department investigation, commenting only from the sidelines that though there were voting irregularities, he saw nothing that would overturn the result. The evidence of just that is overwhelming, but Attorney General Barr mimics the old Groucho Marx line, "Who're you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" Well Bill, I didn't come to town on a load of turnips, and neither did at least 83% of Republican voters, I'll go with my lying eyes! By resigning Barr also dodged demands to appoint a Special Counsel to look into election irregularities, which if one is not appointed, opens the almost certain eventuality that every crime committed since Barack Obama became President by himself and the criminals in his administration, will be swept under the rug and unpunished in a Biden Administration. Former Attorney General Barr will eventually, to borrow a line from a beloved song, "...lie a coward, a craven coward, in his grave!"

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

ONLY A FOOL, OR A LIAR!

December 12, 2020

Only a fool or a liar will tell you that Joe Biden is the legitimate winner of the Presidential election. Donald Trump was well in the lead in all states he was expected to win, but most importantly in the battleground states as well, when vote counting mysteriously stopped in several of these states as if in concert. This happened, however, when most of us were snuggled all safe in our beds, and when we awoke we discovered that out of the dark of the night scores of votes had come in for Biden, giving him victories in battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, and giving him victory in the Electoral College, which fake news immediately touted as legitimate and declared him the President Elect. President Trump immediately declared it fraudulent and was immediately attacked by the Democrats and fake news as a sore loser. His declaration, however, was a snowball that started rolling downhill that has since become an avalanche. Evidence of fraud is now overwhelming, not only sworn eyewitness testimony, but video observation, statistical and mathematical  analysis, with expert investigation of Dominion voting machines for possible fraud yet to be completed. So where does this leave the Attorney General, Bill Barr? The Justice Department sat on the Hunter Biden laptop for nearly a year, when it contained veritable evidence of corruption, not only implicating Hunter Biden, but his father, Presidential Candidate Joe Biden as well. This information only came to light after the election when Biden had been declared winner. Barr's explaination is the Justice Department does not release information on an ongoing investigation that might impact a campaign. Then he declares, in spite of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, that in spite of some election irregularly, that it would not effect the outcome. He is obviously a plant in the Attorney General's office, and in spite of his efforts to portray himself as honest and impartial, he is an agent of the Deep State, George Soros or worse. Donald Trump is the legitimate winner of the election and should be recognized as such by all honest Americans. Recognition of a Biden victory places the United States in the category of many Third World Countries where election results are never indicative of honest result. I stand with Donald Trump, legitimate winner of the Presidential Election, and all honest Americans should do likewise and stand in opposition to a fraudulent Biden victory.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

A Rewrite of an Old Woody Guthrie Song!

by "John Edwin Roberts"

December 11, 2020

THE RANGER'S COMMAND

Come all of you Trumpers all over this land.
I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command:
To hold a six shooter, and never to run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns.

I met a fair maiden whose name I don't know;
I asked her to the polling with me would she go;
She said she'd go with me to watch the tallies go up,
And drink that hard liquor from a big victory cup.

With Trump well leading as Midnight drew near,
We went to our bedrolls with a felling of cheer;
And the thieves broke on us in the dead hours of night;
She 'rose from her warm bed, a battle to fight,

She 'rose from her warm bed with a gun in each hand,
Said: Come all of you Trumpers and fight for your land,
Come all of you Trumpers and don't ever run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

KNOW YOUR ENEMY!

November 16, 2020

The enemies of our country are not all foreigner adversaries such as China, Russia, and Iran. There are domestic enemies equally as evil, treacherous, and ruthless. You need only to look at the supporters of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this election campaign to identify them. The campaign of Donald Trump had an entirely different base of support. He did have a number of well heeled supporters, primarily those interested in the security and future of the country, but the vast majority were ordinary Americans who turned out in the millions for his rallies, and contributed small amounts to the campaign. The Biden supporters were cut from entirely different cloth. Start with the henchmen of Obama, who on orders from their boss, began spying on the Trump campaign even before he was the designated Republican candidate, and well before the election swept him into office. Unable to prevent his taking office they immediately began plotting to undermine his administration and drive him from office. With the aid of conspirators in the media, the so-called Deep State,  and scum of the earth disguised as Republicans, the unremitting attacks began. Unsuccessful in driving him from office with fraudulent Russian Collusion claims and the appointment of a corrupt Special Prosecutor, they turned to an equally fraudulent Impeachment on testimony of government officials as rotten as any traitor that ever lived. Unable to drive away his support with their lies, and his upcoming reelection seemingly impossible to prevent, they resorted to rigging the vote results so blatantly it should have embarrassed a Third World Dictator. This conspiracy brought out the big enemies with billions in financial support. Start with the big banks, the same ones that used to pay a respectable rate of interest on your money they loaned out, that now pay virtually nothing and charge you exorbitant rates for even the most insignificant transaction. Next is Wall Street, that raked in billions by outsourcing American jobs to places like China, where Coolies can do the work for pennies on the dollar, never mind the futures of hard working Americans ruined in the process. Next comes Big Tech, run by vermin the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, that used their fraudulent social communication platforms to censor truths the Trump Campaign attempted to lay out for view of American voters. Playing their part were the RINOS, who have sabotaged the Trump administration at every turn. Not to forget Hollywood, the tinsel town that brings debauchery, lust, vulgarity, and filth to your TV screens nightly, and considers themselves the hallmark of culture and class, when in fact they're little better than the scum they portray on the Silver Screen. Last but not least are the Never Trumpers, conceited trash that allow their hatred for the President to override the love of their own country. These are your enemies, don't forget them, if the Democrats succeeds in their efforts the steal the election you will become their victims, and the only thing protecting you will be your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and they'll be coming to deprive you of that with every corrupt scheme they can devise.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

DO THEY THINK WE CAME TO TOWN ON A LOAD OF TURNIPS?

November 8, 2020

In the Democrat primary for the Senate in Texas in 1948, Coke Stevenson, a thoroughly decent, honest, and capable man, led Lyndon B. Johnson, the exact opposite of Stevenson in decency and honesty, by 854 votes. Mysteriously, six days after the election, Box 13 showed up from a precinct in Alice, Texas with 200 votes for Johnson, throwing the victory to him by 87 votes. Every one of these votes was fraudulent but in the court battle that followed the result was certified.

The exact same thing has happened in this Presidential election where we see the significant leads the President had in Democrat controlled battleground states began to disappear dramatically in the wee hours following Election Day until Biden has overtaken the President in nearly all of them and passed the threshold of 270 electoral votes required for victory.

The fraudulent election of Lyndon Johnson to the Senate led ultimately to the Oval Office, where he became responsible for the two of the biggest disasters in U.S.History, the Vietnam War and the Great Society Program.

If a Biden victory is certified the consequences could be equally dire. Biden himself is in serious mental decline, unable to complete a lengthy sentence without aid of a teleprompter. His Vice President, Kamala Harris, is a woman of easy virtue who's career in politics has been advanced by use of this lack of character. God only knows who's pulling the strings on these two pupets, quite possibly George Soros, the most evil man on Earth.

It is overwhelming obvious that fraudulent votes have been the margin of victory for Biden, and if allowed to stand, should never be accepted as legitimate by any decent and honest American! 

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

What A Heck of a Mess!

March 18, 2020

The Chinese Flu has precipitated the greatest financial crisis in our country since the Great Depression. As with the Depression, America was unprepared, both crises presented unexpected problems, and proper solutions have to be devised as the crisis develops. The President, in spite of numerous lies to the contrary, and on advice of the best medical assistance available, is dealing well with the problem. What many fail to understand is this is not the ordinary flu, it is a deadly mutation, especially to certain segments of our society, and is highly contagious. By closing places of public assembly and requesting people to quarantine themselves to their homes it is hoped the spread of the virus can be contained until a vaccine is made available. The race now is on to develop a vaccine as soon as is humanly possible, and every effort of the medical community is dedicated to doing just that. Take advantage of this quarantine to teach your children the many practical lessons they aren’t learning in school; to read the books you’ve been meaning to read for years; to clean up your own back yard; to take care of home repairs; to plant a little garden in your back yard in case this quarantine goes into summer and fall; and to improve your cooking skills since going out to eat is presently out of the question. America pulled through two World Wars, the Cold War, the Depression, all by keeping a positive attitude and cooperating with authorities until life returns to normal.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

Still Rotten To The Core!

February 16, 2020

The criminal, and traitorous organization know as the FBI wants to see Roger Stone sent up for 9 years to die in prison. Their former #2 man lies and is let off the hook entirely. So much for ‘equal justice under the law!’

Here’s an interesting story from History where legal authorities behaved similarly.

“Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans, by T.R. Fehrenbach is a marvelous story and well worth reading. Not only for the accurate and detailed account he lays out, but also for the sheer pleasure of reading a fabulous story. In the book the account of the murder of Indian Agent Robert Neighbors is told. Neighbors had just accompanied the forceable and brutal relocation of Indian Tribes into Oklahoma. Upon return, while in conversation, he was approached from behind by Ed Cornett, a man he'd never met, and shot in the back. I now quote directly from the book: It was "not possible" to bring Cornett to trial. But on the other hand, it was not permissible on the frontier to shoot a white man, even an Indian Agent, in the back. John Cochran and Ben R. Milan got together some "Minute Men." This group convened a "court" in April, 1860, months after the murder, and went after Cornett. He "made fight" on Salt Creek, as one of the members of this posse said, and all accounts agree that Ed Cornett was brought to justice without benefit of judge and jury.”

It may well become necessary in our country for the "Minute Men" to ride again!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2020

FQuid Pro Hooey!

November 6, 2019

American education has deteriorated to the point that the general populace is so woefully ignorant that many will believe almost anything they are told on the evening news, including the garbage spewed by the likes of Rachael Meadow and Don Lemon. Take for instance the present hoax being spun in Washington, D.C. that the President is guilty of High Crimes and Misdemeanors as outlined in the Constitution. Well what is his specific crime? Why Quid Pro Quo of course! Most people have never heard of Quid Pro Quo or know what it means, and they certainly have heard never of anyone arrested for it. Well just what in Hell does Quid Pro Quo mean anyway? Well, in layman's terms it means 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours', a practice utilized in trade, barter, business dealings, political compromise, and foreign policy since time immemorial. The Democrat controlled House of Representatives is presently considering Articles of Impeachment in secret hearings and evidence given by politically selected witnesses in a fashion worthy of the Secret Chambers of the Soviet Union. If the House votes to Impeach, a foregone conclusion since it is controlled by the thoroughly corrupt Democrats, the case will then move to the Senate for trial. If the President is found guilty in the Senate, he will be removed from office. Of course if there is a crime there has to be evidence, and in this case the supposed evidence is being submitted by a person unknown, and identified only as a Whistleblower.  He is protected by something called the Whistleblower Law, a law enacted by Congress so that waste, fraud, and corruption in government operations could be exposed, and the person offering up the evidence could not be fired, or otherwise retaliated against by government agencies. He was originally supposed to have direct knowledge of the offenses, which of course must then be proven. In the present case against the President, the Whistleblower has no direct knowledge of anything whatsoever, he claims he heard it through the grapevine, though the possibility exists that it is fabricated from whole cloth. Now in a Court of Law, this is known as hearsay evidence, and is inadmissible. In the twisted logic of this Whistleblower nonsense, however, this evidence is not only admissible, but the man accused is not allowed to confront his unknown accuser as in a Court of Law, nor to cross examine him for truth. That this is sheer nonsense should be obvious to almost everyone with a functional brain and the Whistleblower thrown out on his ear, but sanity and good sense are no longer the order of the day in Washington, and the hoax continues in the round the clock news like a broken record.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998 - 2019

Hillary, You're Pissing On My Boots!

In 2008 Barak Obama wrested the Democrat nomination for the Presidency away from Hillary Clinton. Obama won it fair and square ...after a fashion, the dirty tricks learned in Chicago trumped those learned in Arkansas, and he carried the day. It was a humiliating defeat for Hillary but she put on a good show of accepting it gracefully, and promised to throw her support to the party. Defeated she may have been, but it in no way lessened her lust to occupy the seat in the Oval Office. She sought, and received, the position of Secretary of State in the Obama cabinet. This was a wise move on her part because it kept her in the public eye, and through clever manipulation of press releases and other means, created the illusion that she was doing a remarkable job. Fact of the matter is, she did nothing remarkable at all, and accomplished very little. What she did that was remarkable was log more airline miles, days spent out of the country, and number of glowing press releases, in the history of the office. She resigned after Obama's first term in office to concentrate her efforts on winning the Democrat nomination for the Presidency in 2016. She left the office in the hands of a perfect stooge knowing he could never better her record there. For three years she moved serenely along the campaign trail, solidifying her position as the darling of the Democrat party, while her husband turned his attentions to living the high life out of sight of his otherwise occupied wife, and further enriching himself through fat speaking fees and shady dealings only now coming to light.

Though the Clintons and Obama have always professed mutual respect and support, the truth is they despise each other. Their relationship could more accurately be described as a Mexican Standoff. Obama needed the Clinton's support in order to pursue his nefarious goals as President, and Hillary needed his to bolster her position as Democrat Party favorite for the Presidency in 2017. The Clintons are no fools however, they already knew prior to the revelations of Edward Snowden that the government was spying on ordinary American citizens and lying about it. Hell, they did it themselves while Bill Clinton was both a Governor and President, destroying reputations, fortunes, and lives in the process. Hillary had no intention of putting herself in a position where Obama could know about, and monitor every move that she made. Imperiously, she refused to utilize the mandated official communication system in the State Department, creating her own. Here, so she thought, she was safe and secure from Obama's prying eyes. Unfortunately for her it turned out to be a glaring mistake, one that has now come back to haunt her.

There remained one little fly left in the ointment, the calamity of Benghazi during her tenure at State.  Her bad judgment played a large part in the lack of security which led to her Ambassador and three other Americans being brought home in flag draped coffins. Had this disaster not occurred, her schemes may well have carried to fruition and her march to the Presidency come off without a hitch. This issue, however, has dogged both her and Obama from onset, and continues to this day. The glaring mistakes made that could have prevented it, the in competencies in reacting, along with the lies and cover-ups to misrepresent, camouflage, and hide the truth of it, would, if known, destroy the both of them. This makes certain that the Mexican Standoff between them remains, for if one goes down, the other will surely follow.

The lies and cover up started almost immediately after the Benghazi debacle, and they are well enough know and documented elsewhere that I won't bother to list them. Reporters were curious at first, but most soon bought the administration's line and dropped the issue. The President dismissed the matter as, "... bumps in the road." When called to testify before a Congressional panel Hillary declared, "What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?" Further efforts by the Senate to uncover the truth of Benghazi were stonewalled and delayed by The State Department and the Obama administration.  Political objectives continue to obscure the truth, and though it was accepted that mistakes had been made, these were ascribed to low level government employees, and the high government officials actually responsible walked away without even a slap on the wrist.

In the House, however, it is a different story. The stonewalling continues but the bulldog efforts of Rep. Trey Gowdy to get at the truth are bearing fruit, and this in spite of the despicable efforts of Rep. Elijah Cummings to foil the work of their committee. Here, it was discovered that Hillary had not used the official government communication system mandated by law for her official correspondence, but her own personal and private server. Also mandated by law are that all that all official communications be retained and kept secure for oversight if necessary, and the House committee rightfully demanded those pertaining to Benghazi. There was a little problem here however; all these communications were stored on the server installed in the private residence of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Here began another series of lies and cover-ups. Hillary volunteered to produce all emails pertaining to official business, declaring that no material marked Confidential was contained therein. And produce them she did, a pitifully small number, saying that everything else was of personal and private nature, and she had deleted them. Emails, however, do not exist only on the device on which they originate, they are stored on the server, the recipient also has a copy, and others may as well. These missing emails are beginning to turn up, and they put the lie to most of Hillary's declarations on the matter. The server is now in the hands of the FBI, but all indications are that all emails have not only been deleted, but that the server has been professionally wiped clean of all information whatsoever. Summonses by the House Committee to get those involved in setting up, maintaining, and servicing this private system to testify are now going out. One of Hillary's co-conspirators has already notified the committee that if required to appear, he will plead the Fifth. The whole scenario brings to mind a wonderful line by Sherriff Ed Earl in the play, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, "Boys, I got myself a pretty good bullshit detector, and I can tell when somebody's pissing on my boots and telling me it's a rainstorm."  Well, Trey Gowdy knows Hillary's pissing on his boots and he intends doing something about it!

John E. Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

THEY SET A HOOK FOR DONALD TRUMP
BUT HE REFUSED TO TAKE THE BAIT!

By: John Edwin Roberts

August 9, 2015

Fox News bills itself as ‘Fair and Balanced’. On Friday evening we discovered they are anything but. In the first debate of candidates for Republican Presidential nominee, the loaded questions they threw at Trump, the initial one ostensibly for all participants but in actuality directed only at him, were nothing less than blows below the belt.

There are presently seventeen Republican candidates. The leader of the pack is Donald Trump with a double-digit lead over his nearest rival. The bottom seven or so trailing rivals all hover around 1%, and haven’t a snowball’s chance in Hell of being the candidate. There are only a half-dozen serious rivals; nevertheless all seventeen were trotted on stage for this so-called debate. Most of the trailing candidates, perhaps all, would like to see Trump out of the race, but his up-front statements on the problems this country faces have struck a chord with the American People and he now enjoys massive support. Many of the trailing candidates have viciously, and aggressively, attacked Trump, rather than outlining their own qualifications or attacking the likely Democrat nominee, which they should be doing. When he responds in counterattack, they declare him angry, unprincipled, and vicious. They remind me of the tattletales most of us despised when we were in grade school. Trump, we are told, does not represent the Republican Establishment, whatever that is, but apparently it means business as usual, and that only increases his support by those that despise the present situation in Washington.

The opening question boiled down to would the candidates all take a ridiculous sort of Huck Finn Pirate’s Oath to fully support the Republican nominee, regardless whom he may be, and not to mount an independent campaign were he not. Well, Trump is the only candidate that could effectively mount an independent campaign, none of the rest could do so and even draw 5% support, so for them it was a non question. For Trump it was a trap, because the threat of his mounting an independent campaign, whether he actually intends to or not, is the only thing keeping other candidates from mounting more vicious attacks against him. He wisely declared, “No!”

Then there comes another foul, this from Megyn Kelley, another of the so-called ‘Fair and Balanced’ team. Did she want to know how he intended to solve the massive, and numerous, problems confronting this Nation considering his lack of in-office political experience? No! Did she want to know how his programs, and principals differed from those of the Democrat Party, and how they would be an improvement? No! She wanted to know if a disparaging offhand comment he’d made years ago about a disgusting woman with whom he’d had some differences, represented his attitude towards all women everywhere. It was without doubt, the most asinine and ridiculous question I’ve ever heard mounted in my years of following these so-called debates, and believe me; I’ve seen some doozies. He handled the question well, and, as he should, dismissed it with the contempt it deserved.

The reaction of intelligent people who watched the debate was surprising, surprising anyway to Fox News. They thought they’d scored a coup and struck a massive blow to the Trump campaign. Most viewers saw it just the way I did and considered it not only unfair and totally biased, but reprehensible as well. The claim of Fox News to be ‘Fair and Balanced’ is now exposed as nothing but a hoax. The gloves are now off, and it’s every man for himself and I’ve an idea that the way Donald Trump will fight back against his enemies will be anything but effete and pusillanimous! Thursday night, we saw the kind of Commander in Chief capable of standing toe to toe with Putin, Khomeini, and Kim Jong-Un. Trump, a welcome relief from our community organizer and sensible people feel that.

Regards,

John Edwin Roberts - Editorialist & World Correspondent at Large

San Diego Beachlife Magazine

THE BRAYING JACKASS

By: John Edwin Roberts

June 22, 2015

The braying jackass of the Democrat Party brays yet again, “I am frustrated, and you have every right to be frustrated, because Congress doesn’t work the way it should,” His complaint falls on deaf ears, even the blind and corrupt loyalists of his own party are throwing their hands in frustration and ignoring his bitter words. No, Congress doesn’t work the way it should, or rather how he feels it should, which means it doesn’t dance to the tune of his socialist and utopian fiddle. Since the early days of his promised 'Hope and Change', 'Transparency', 'A New Start', and similar blather read from his ever present Teleprompter, his record is nothing but an economy in chaos, racial animosity not seen in decades, loss of national respect and prestige in the world, a thoroughly weakened and demoralized military, a war in the Middle East spiraling out of control, a Cold War rekindled from the embers of the heady days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and disaster after disaster after disaster. He has failed in every effort he has made save bringing the country to the lowest ebb since the dark early days of WWII when the totalitarian states were on the march and victory, if perceived, was a dim light at the end of a tunnel. This country is the weakest she has been since the dark days of The Depression, when our leadership was lost in the wilderness and groping for a way. Even in the dark early days of WWII the country could rally to the words of a strong and virile President, knowing he wasn't lying, and leadership of our Army and Navy second to none. Sadly we have another nineteen months of this national tragedy before us until we may be freed of this monumental mismanagement and blight. In the meantime steel yourselves for more fleecing by a corrupt federal government that rewards indolence, incompetence and sloth, taxes that only go up, a dwindling retirement account, and health care costs unparallel in our history. We can only hope that after this next election this country can make a turn around and stride forward with purpose and determination, but given an electorate that followed a pied piper off a cliff, not once but twice in the past eight years; we could face a similar, or worse, fate in 2017. God help us!

Regards,

John Edwin Roberts - Editorialist & World Correspondent at Large

San Diego Beachlife Magazine

Why Romney Lost The Election

By John Edwin Roberts

In the marvelous essay on Boxing, My One-Eyed Coach, by George Garrett, you will discover the most succint explaination of combat in the boxing ring that you will ever find. "...to win in boxing you had to hit the other guy. To hit the other guy you had to move in close enough for him to hit you. No other way. One of the immutable lessons of boxing was that there was no free lunch. To succeed you had to be at risk. You had to choose to be at risk. That choice was the chief act of will and courage. After that you might win or lose, on the basis of luck or skill, but the choice itself was all that mattered."

Romney was an underdog in this most recent Presidential contest from the very begining. His wealth, his aloofness, his religion, all alienated many; and of course the parasites, the indolent, the n'er do wells of the country, all on the government dole, were firmly in the Obama camp for fear of loosing their unearned pittance. As well, the brain-dead liberals, those who still clung to the Opium dream of 'Hope and Change', remained onboard. It was an uphill battle for Romney for all these reasons, not to mention the inherent advantage to Obama of incumbency, and the almost universal willingness of the media to pervert their message to sway all possible support to the President.

A ray of hope. however, shone through in the first debate. Obama, completely defenseless without his teleprompter, was severely damaged by Romney's superior knowledge and concise explanations. He was staggered and on the ropes. Now, if ever there was a time, Romney should have moved in for the kill. Obama was vulnerable for so many reasons, the failed economy, Fast and Furious, and of course the coverup and lies related to the Beghazi debacle. Romney should have hit him then with everything he had. Sadly he did not, he went into a defensive crouch, and tried to coast to victory on the points he had accumulated in Debate #1. He failed abysmally, at best drawing in Debate #2, and was nowhere in Debate #3. Obama regained the lead, and with much questionable activity at many polling places in crital states, swept to victory.

Obama now basks in the glow of victory, and the country looks ahead to the most bleak future envisioned since our noble forbears embarked on that great national adventure, The American Revolution. Romeny must now look himself in the mirror ever single day of what remains of his miserable life, and reflect on the lesson that Mr. Garrett so eloquently expressed at the commencement of this article, and ones that Romeny failed completely to comprehend.

John Edwin Roberts
Editorialist & World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

Will You Stand idly by while America is destroyed?

January 22, 2012

I was in South Carolina for the first time many years ago. While there I met only one native I considered really intelligent, a guy named Fowler. He wound up the financial head of the Democrat Party, and though I didn't admire his association, I could hardly deny my previous evaluation was correct. We are now faced with the monumental ignorance and stupidity of most South Carolinians that I observed all those years ago, they have chosen Newt Gingrich as their Republican nominee for the Presidency. Though undoubtedly clever, this man is the most unprincipled of all the Republican candidates and the most unelectable. He is in the same league with Bill Clinton, the Hero of the Democrat Party, as a man without principal, moral compass, or worthwhile purpose in life other than self promotion, enrichment, and aggrandizement. If he becomes the Republican candidate for the Presidency, the details of his censure by the Congress will be laid out for all the World to see, and they won't be pretty. As well, the Republican Party will be domed for the next four years, and the country perhaps forever. Aiding and abetting this monstrous possibility was the endorsement of Gingrich by the Governor of Texas, as monumental an ass as we've seen in a Presidential campaign for many years. We can only hope that the voters in the State of Florida will not be as gullible, stupid, and/or foolish, as those in South Carolina, and Gingrich can be stopped there. If not, God help us!

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998

The Monroe Doctrine...

September 18, 2009

'Whatever happened to the Monroe Doctrine I so well remember studying in school? I learned it was one of the most important diplomatic moves ever made by the US, backed as it was by threat of force. Basically, it guaranteed the Western Hemisphere would be kept safe from the further ravages of Colonial rule and the meddling interference of European Nations. It has actually worked pretty well until recently. Oh there was that little tin pot dictator in Mexico who lasted a few years while the US was engaged in civil war, but that was sorted out before we had to step in and do it ourselves. After that came the Spanish American War, when we kicked Spain out of what was left of her colonial empire, and the Western Hemisphere was at last free of foreign oppression. Then, in recent times, a Communist regime came to power in Cuba, a regime still in power in spite of all US efforts to the contrary. It didn't take long for the Russians, our mortal enemies since well before WWII, to commence their meddling there. Before we knew it they had ballistic missiles in Cuba capable of reaching US targets with nuclear warheads. That was eventually put a stop to by the US agreeing to withdraw missiles from Turkey. President Kennedy was acclaimed a hero for his actions during that crisis, whether he deserved to be or not. Cuba then became a full, fledged puppet of the Kremlin, dancing to her bidding, and performing whatever tasks might be assigned. One of these tasks was to send an army to Angola. It's mission, to fight and destroy democratic opposition to the establishment of Communist rule there. To insure this effort wasn't botched, Russian generals were placed in charge. Once the misguided and incompetent Jimmy Carter was replaced, and a capable and intelligent administration in place, that plan was set awry, and Cuba's military power there destroyed. Lately the Cuban government is treated more a friend than an enemy by Washington, and we jail our former allies in fighting this evil regime on spurious and trumped up charges. Now we see the rise to power of another Communist Dictator in our hemisphere, the disgusting Chavez of Venezuela, Again the Kremlin sees fit to meddle in this hemisphere in direct violation of the Monroe Doctrine, and they are openly supplying weapons of mass destruction to Venezuela. These weapons are not defensive, weapons meant to safeguard the country against hostile neighbors, of which there are none, but offensive, with which aggressive warfare can be waged on neighbors who disagree. Is this not a clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine? It certainly seems so to me, but the man in the White House says nothing, and does nothing. In fact, the only aggressive action he is taking in this hemisphere is bullying the legitimate government of Honduras. The Secretary of State is his primary agent in this intimidating and thoroughly immoral effort. The President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, attempted to circumvent the Constitution there, and make himself a virtual dictator, in the same fashion that Chavez did in Venezuela. The Supreme Court there, in full compliance with the law, ruled these efforts Unconstitutional, and under direction of the Vice President, the military removed the President from office and escorted him out of the country. His fellow Dictator Chavez immediately raised a hue and cry for his reinstatement, quickly seconded by other Socialist and Communist leaning governments the World round, as well . own government and the UN. Obama is now using every diplomatic and economic means available to reinstate this criminal President of Honduras. It is in times like this when I am ashamed to be an American!'

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire!”

October 29, 2008

A few weeks ago I began receiving e-mails pertaining to allegations that Barak Hussein Obama, Democrat Candidate for President of the United States, does not meet the Constitutional requirements that would qualify him for the office. It is alleged that Obama was actually born in Kenya, his father's native land, and not in Hawaii, as he claims. I at first brushed these allegations aside as feeble attempts at disinformation. I have since begun to change my mind. In the first place, I can't understand why this requirement that a candidate for President must be a natural born citizen of the United States does not required verification at filing. As a natural born citizen of the United States myself, I have been required to produce my birth certificate any number of times. In fact, I thought it was a matter of public record, not a piece of privileged information that could be released only at the discretion of the party concerned. As well as I can recall, I have had to produce my birth certificate, or certified copy thereof, many times. I had to produce it in order to obtain a Social Security card, a driver's license, to enlist in the US Navy, and to obtain a US Passport, this last time after already having produced it for two other departments of the US Government. I believe I have had to produce it a several other times as well, but can't at the moment recall exactly what for.

Since this controversy began Obama has remained silent on the entire matter, but his refusal to address what appears to be a rather simple request has aroused suspicions that there may indeed be truth to the allegations. Subsequently, the uproar not having subsided, the Obama campaign has released a digital copy of what they purport to be his birth certificate. This copy, however, is so patently phony, that no intelligent person is buying that. I have examined the copy myself, and declare it a complete and transparent hoax.

As I think more on this subject, I recalled that Obama made a trip to Hawaii just a month or so ago to visit his grandmother. Seems he hadn't seen her in over two years, and she, the one person who has done more for him than any other on this earth. Perhaps the trip was for public relations purposes, voters wouldn't like it if he gave the appearance of ingratitude for all his grandmother's sacrifices on his behalf. Then perhaps there were other reasons as well? A few days ago he's back again, seems now his grandmother is gravely ill, and this may be his last earthly visit with her. Later information revels he'd taken a gang of lawyers with him on the trip, a rather curious group of traveling companions, considering you're on the way to visit your grandmother on her deathbed. This, however, is soon cleared up when the Governor of Hawaii announces that all records pertaining to Obama are under lock and key until after the election. Funny a man insists that hospital records pertaining to his birth and his birth certificate be kept under governmental lock and key? Since these allegations obviously won't go away with all the documents pertinent to the issue being kept in hiding, it puts in focus the expulsion of the author, Jerome Corsi, from Kenya a few weeks ago. He was summarily kicked out of that country on an obviously trumped up charge of working without a permit. I had no idea that authors are required to get work permits when visiting foreign lands, but then, after all, they may be gathering information pertinent to their livelihood? I suppose next time I go abroad I must be sure to have appropriate work permits in place less I face similar expulsion. Of course the fact that Obama, who has connections in Kenya through relatives on his father's side of the family, rather nefarious ones at that, could have had nothing to do with this. Hogwash! Kenya is the very place where Obama is alleged to have been born and there may be records there that Obama can't keep hidden. He definitely didn’t want Corsi snooping around there and finding out anything!

All my life I’ve heard the saying, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Well I smell smoke! I think now that Obama was indeed born in Kenya and is frantically trying to suppress that fact until after he’s elected President. I think the gang of lawyers he took to Hawaii with him is there to sit by the bedside of his grandmother and insure she talks to no one other than immediate family and friends, and that no indiscrete questions are put to her. I think that Obama will take every step possible to keep the American People ignorant of the truth prior to his election and inauguration. Afterwards, for the truth is eventually bound to come out, he will depend upon the Democrat majority in the Congress, a group to which the Constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, to keep him from being thrown out of office. He may well succeed.

John Edwin Roberts - Editorialist & Correspondent at Large

Stand By For Heavy Rolls!

October 11, 2008

In the US Navy, when severe sea conditions are to be expected, the announcement is made throughout the ship to, "Stand by for heavy rolls!" Our entire nation had better stand by for heavy rolls, because regardless of the outcome of the upcoming election, they will be encountered. Present indications are that Obama, the supposed harbinger of change, will win in a landslide. Much of the voting population has been convinced that the present administration is totally responsible for the present financial debacle, and the incompetent Bush Administration has been hung around McCain's neck like a millstone. Many have been convinced that Obama actually represents a change for the better, and will vote for him no matter what evidence may be presented to the contrary. Should Obama prevail, the celebrations will start immediately among the so called African American segment of the population. That will shortly be followed by drunken revelry, rioting, looting and wanton destruction. This segment of the population, as a consequence of one of their own being elected, will feel themselves above the law and proceed accordingly. In some major cities law and order may break down completely. Law-abiding citizens should take all precautions to safeguard their lives and property. In the unlikely event that McCain should win, the same result will accrue; only the first step will be omitted entirely, the second will be drunkenness only, before proceeding with rioting and the other remaining steps. Another certainty, in the unlikely event that McCain should win, is the Democrat Party will make the assertion that the election has been stolen, further enraging an already irresponsible segment of the population.

In addition to all law-abiding citizens taking necessary precautions, all local, state and federal authorities should be prepared as well. All law enforcement personnel should be mobilized and staged in proper location to proceed when called upon to deal with the lawless. Most states should mobilize their National Guard as well, and establish command posts to properly coordinate all forces at hand. Any official who does not take the steps necessary to prevent and stamp out lawless behavior will be guilty of criminal negligence.

Once lawless conditions are underway, do not expect the media to exert any influence to quell this disturbance. As with the Rodney King situation, they will only show film clips, or portions thereof, that will act as catalysts to the conflagration. The present financial crisis may well be aided and abetted by a civil disturbance of monumental proportion.

Remember, forewarned is forearmed, all responsible Americans take heed!

John Edwin Roberts - Editorialist & Correspondent at Large

THE RATS ARE LEAVING THE SINKING SHIP!

May 11, 2008

The primary election results in Indiana and North Carolina failed to bring a close to the drawn out fight for the nomination between Obama and Hillary. It appeared, for a time, that the party would go to convention with neither candidate holding the number of delegates required for unanimous conformation. It also appeared that the final determination would be made, not on the convention floor by the rank and file, but by the so-called superdelegates. Now these superdelegates are supposedly Democrat Party members of the highest standing, Jimmy Carter sorts, far above partisan politics and dedicated only to the ideals of the party and the best interest of our nation. Well anyway, that's what they're supposed to be. The whole idea seems a bit elitist to me, after all, isn't the Democrat Party supposed to be the 'one man, one vote' party, the party opposed to behind the scenes connivings and decisions made in smoke filled rooms? It looks more and more though, like business as usual. Some of the superdelegates, who've been pledging their troth to one candidate or the other, come Hell or high water, are now scampering down the lines like rats leaving a sinking ship. Under pressure from supporters of Obama, many are willing to abandon poor Hillary and leave her to sail her ship alone. (I wonder if husband Bill will eventually joint this crowd?) It's been a good show so far, much better than the run of the mill campaign. It's perfectly obvious that Obama and Hillary don't care the least bit for each other, and their version of 'The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat' has been a sight to behold. Let's hope this show isn't over yet, but it's looking more and more like it soon will be.

The recent primaries in Indiana and North Carolina were a split decision. Hillary won Indiana by a narrow margin, but North Carolina was a blowout for Obama. Indiana was interesting, as it is claimed that Hillary's narrow victory was influenced by Rush Limbaugh, a conservative entertainer with a popular radio show. I can't see how the Democrat Party can complain about this,  as they've been using Hollywood Bubble-heads to campaign for their causes for years, but they all up in arms about it nonetheless. There were also some shenanigans in some of the "African-American" districts in Gary, Indiana, reminding me of Chicago when Kennedy was elected, or Texas during LBJ's first Senatorial campaign. The clamor was short lived however, and the media has apparently forgotten all about it. Many were surprised that Hillary did so poorly in North Carolina, as her husband Bill campaigned vigorously for her there. Bill, as you probably know, has been a staunch friend of the "African-American", having done much for them when he was President, and claiming, in fact, to be "The First African American President of the U.S." This would seem a rather preposterous statement on the face of it, but he's been able to make preposterous statements all along and get away with them. Bill Clinton's assistance to the "African-American" has indeed been substantial, and he certainly had some reason to expect their support, going so far as to take it for granted. Well Bill, all bets are off! He's been repaid, as the"African-American" has always repaid those that assist them, with ingratitude and contempt. In North Carolina they ignored Hillary completely and turned out in droves to vote for the candidate of their own race. Now does this really surprise anyone? In major cities all across the US, once the "African-American" has achieved a majority of voters, they have elected their own. This has given us some of the worst run cities, and most corrupt political machinery since the infamous days of the Nineteenth Century. If Obama indeed becomes the Democrat Party's candidate for President, they will turn out again, along with the liberals of this country, who conform to the letter to what Malcolm Muggeridge so accurately described in his magnificent report on 'The Great Liberal Death Wish'. They could well get him elected. If so, the decline of the U.S. as a World Power, which has been underway since the great Ronald Reagan left office, will continue unabated.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998

Lagos, Nigeria - December 12, 2007

Stable security conditions which had existed for some months in the offshore coastal waters of Nigeria near the mouth of the Escravos River were shattered in the early morning hours of December 10th by piracy. Chevron Nigeria, Ltd. operates extensive offshore oil fields here, where two vessels under contract were boarded by pirates. The pirates assaulted the vessels by speed boat with automatic weapon fire, machetes and knives. The vessels were boarded in turn about an hour apart and apparently no alarm was raised until after the pirates had escaped with their booty. Crewmen and workmen on the vessels were roughed up and terrorized, as the pirates relieved them and the vessel of all easily transportable property, including cash, jewelry, computers, and cell phones. No other information has been released, and it is not known at present from whence the pirates came. Incidents of this sort continue to make this country the most dangerous place in the world for oil field workers. The Nigerian Government has been ineffective in dealing with the problem, and the US Government appears unconcerned, tied up as they are in imbroglios elsewhere. Fortunately no serious bodily harm was done to any of the victims and no hostages taken, but this only serves to illustrate how vulnerable these offshore workers are, and what little has been done to improve the security situation.

John E. Roberts
Editorialist and World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine ® 1998

April 3, 2007

Classmates,

Bob sent me the appended article nearly a year ago, having apparently taken it at face value as being a stride forward in the uniforming of military personnel. I took one look at it and realized it was a disastrous idea, advanced by a so-called task force that knew absolutely nothing about the working part of the term working uniform. I meant to comment on it then, but until now have not taken the time to do so.

Any article of apparel containing polyester fabric is trash. I do not wear it, nor do I allow my grandchildren to wear it. In the first place, polyester is a sort of plastic, and when it burns, it melts. If it's on your back it melts right into your flesh. In the second place, if you've ever gone outside your air conditioned office in the tropics wearing such apparel, you know it's not only hot, much hotter that practical cotton fabrics, but it sticks to your skin most uncomfortably. Obviously these stuffed shirts sitting on that board never had to work in a hot engine room or on deck under a broiling tropical sun. Those of you not in your dotage should recall how uncomfortable that dress blue uniform we wore in parades became once June Week drew nigh, and that was only wool, without the addition of polyester.

I went through boot camp a long time ago, forty-eight years ago in fact, yet I still recall two lectures presented to us there that stick in my mind to this day. First was a lecture on damage control, and the importance of controlled flooding. The example cited was either a German battleship or heavy cruiser. She was holed through and through, and sinking, but as she went to the bottom, and with her main deck awash, she was on an even keel and all batteries were still firing! The second lecture concerned the sailor's cotton working dungaree uniform, and the practicality and inherent safety of it. Not only is cotton the most cool and comfortable of fabrics, it is safe. In a flash fire from a volatile vapor or gunpowder explosion, it acts as a wick, absorbing the heat of the flame. A graphic photograph was presented, showing the naked backs of four sailors exposed to just such an explosion. They had 2nd & 3rd degree burns on the backs of their necks and hands, but the skin underneath the cotton shirt was unharmed even though the shirts had been completely burned off their backs in the flame! That made a believer out of me!

Nearly all of us served in Viet Nam where the working uniform was cotton khaki for officers and chiefs, and dungarees for enlisted, or else wore the jungle fatigues, which were all 100% cotton. These uniforms were practical, easily cleaned, comfortable, and inexpensive. These uniforms can also be folded once washed and dry, and put under the mattress on your bunk, and come out nearly as smooth and military as had they been pressed.

Since I left the Navy another incident comes to mind, similar in misconception to this present proposal. The Army adopted synthetic fabric into it’s field uniform and went to war with it in Panama. It had no doubt been chosen because it wore well, did not fade, lasted longer than cotton fabric, and did not wrinkle, all desirable characteristics from a Hollywood soldier's outlook. The only thing wrong was once the men got into the jungle wearing them they were dropping like flies from heat stroke and exhaustion. The uniforms were then, most sensibly, replaced. They should never have been adopted in the first place!

I have recently read a marvelous book, Queen Victoria's Little Wars, by Byron Farwell and I recommend it highly as there are parallels there to our present difficulties in Iraq & Afghanistan. It also made mention of how soldiers of the Indian Army dressed entirely differently from those in the Queen's Army in India. The Indian virtually invented the practical cotton fabric, i.e. madras, seersucker, etc. They incorporated these fabrics into their practical tropical uniforms and could never understand why the Queen's soldiers wore such uncomfortable wool clothing in that clime.

I might also add, cotton is a 100% American product, and in the section of the country from whence I come, once King. In fact, some of my forebears once raised the crop. I wear it with comfort and great pride!

Regards,

John Edwin Roberts
Editorialist & World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

Mr. Roberts is responding to the following article which apeared in.

Navy newsstand - "The Source for Navy News"

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=22519

CNO Approves New Navy Uniforms
Michael Foutch | March 03, 2006
Washington D.C. - Outfitting the Sailor of the future took
another step forward last week when Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
Mike Mullen approved plans for a single working uniform for all
ranks and a year-round service uniform for E-6 and below Sailors.
Based on recommendations made during a comprehensive briefing by
Task Force Uniform Feb. 24, Mullen agreed to production of both
a BDU-style working uniform for all Sailors E-1 to O-10 and a
more practical, year-round service uniform to withstand day-to-day
classroom and office-like environments where the service uniform
is typically worn.

“These are good uniforms, designed to support the modern
Sailor,” said Mullen. “Durability, safety, ease of wear and cleaning
were all factors that weighed heavily on my mind, as did, quite
frankly, the survey data and the opinions of wear testers. This
wasn’t a popularity contest by any stretch, but we would have been
foolish not to consider the opinions of the men and women who
will wear these uniforms.”

The BDU-style working uniform, designed to replace seven
different styles of current working uniforms, is made of a near
maintenance-free permanent press 50/50 nylon and cotton blend. Worn
with a blue cotton t-shirt, it will include an eight-point cover, a
black web belt with closed buckle, and black smooth leather
boots, with black suede no-shine boots for optional wear while
assigned to non-shipboard commands.
“When I walk down the piers, I see a Sailors standing watch as a
pier sentry in January and it's 30 degrees and freezing rain,”
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/AW) Terry Scott said.
“You have to ask yourself, does the uniform that we currently
issue protect us, and the answer is no.”

To meet the all-weather requirement, the new working uniform
will include several cold weather options, such as a unisex
pullover sweater, a fleece jacket, and a parka. It will also be made in
three variants, all in a multi-color digital print pattern:
predominately blue, with some gray, for the majority of Sailors and
shipboard use; and a woodland digital pattern and a desert
digital pattern for Sailors serving in units requiring those types of
uniforms.

“The intent of TFU always has been to give our Sailors a uniform
in which they can work comfortably everyday and is more
appropriate for the joint environment in which we operate,” Scott said.
“Even better, we’ve created a uniform that’s also easier to
maintain, is longer lasting, helps reduce the size of the sea bag,
while at the same time recognizing the tradition and heritage of
serving in the Navy.”

The service uniform for E-6 and below is comprised of a
short-sleeve khaki shirt for males and an over-blouse for females, made
from a wash and wear 75/25 polyester and wool blend, with
permanent military creases, black trousers for males with belt less
slacks for females and optional belt less skirt, and a black
unisex garrison cap. Silver anodized-metal rank insignia will be worn
on shirt/blouse collars and cap. The service uniform will also
include a black relaxed-fit Eisenhower-style jacket with a knit
stand-up collar and epaulets, on which petty officers will wear
large, silver anodized-metal rank insignia. Those entitled to
wear gold chevrons will continue to wear gold chevrons on the large
metal rank insignia on the jacket.

“In our research, we found the group most dissatisfied with
their present uniforms were E-6 and below,” Scott said.
The manner of wear for both of these new uniforms remains under
development by TFU and will not be effective until guidelines on
prescribed wear are incorporated in the Navy Uniform
Regulations.

“There are a lot of concerns about the manner of wear for the
working and service uniforms that we need to address, so we have a
smooth transition when the time comes,” TFU Director
CNO-Directed Command Master Chief Robert Carroll said.
The working uniform and service uniform are not expected to be
available for purchase and wear until late fall of 2007, after
which they will be introduced to Recruit Training Command and
eventually distributed to the rest of the fleet. Details on when the
uniforms will be available for purchase and wear at specific
geographic locations will be released at a future date.
Until the new uniforms are available for wear, all existing
uniform regulations will apply. During the expected two-year
transition period, Sailors will be required to maintain a complete
inventory of sea bag items with each reflecting a professional
appearance.

“We want our Sailors to keep a professional appearance,” Carroll
said. “We don’t want people wearing worn-out uniforms because
they’re waiting for the new ones to hit the shelves.”
Once the working and service uniforms are adopted, Sailors will
receive a uniform maintenance allowance appropriate to support
purchase and wear.

The announcement of the new uniforms, Carroll said, is the
culmination of a three-year project that began with the charter of
Task Force Uniform to deliver a proposal to reflect the
requirements of a 21st century Navy. An analysis of a fleet-wide survey
conducted during the summer of 2003 led to the creation of
concepts for working and service uniforms for a wear test and another
fleet-wide survey last summer.

“I just can’t say enough about how meticulous and thorough TFU
Director Master Chief Rob Carroll and his team approached their
work,” stressed Mullen. “The process they established and
maintained was rock solid -- measured and analytical. They looked at
hundreds of options, studied countless pattern and color designs,
and fretted over every minor detail, from button style to
stitching. I am enormously proud of their effort, and every Sailor can
be, too.”

The work of TFU will not stop. Next on the agenda is to evaluate
additional uniform options, such as reviving the traditional
Service Dress Khaki uniform for chiefs and officers, conducting
research on the feasibility, cost and distribution of a
service-wide physical training uniform, consider adoption of a ceremonial
cutlass for chiefs, and investigate adopting a more practical
service-wide, all-weather coat that would provide a better military
appearance.

“The bottom line for me in making these decisions,” said the
CNO, “is culture. Uniforms reflect our culture -- who we are --
what we stand for. I've said all along that no matter which way we
go, I want Sailors to look like Sailors. I really believe these
uniforms pass that test.”

BREAKING NEWS from NIGERIA

0530 2 APR 07 local time - NIGERIA

Boss,

I hope you are breaking this story, as you should be the first in the US to recive accurate information regarding the incident.

The area in which Chevron's fields are located in this area is just a few miles off the beach near the mouth of the Escravos River. Chevron has a base camp and processiig facility at Escravos. The vessel seized by the pirates was assailed by approximately a dozen boats, some dugout type fishing craft, others speedboats, and the pirates were well armed. They attempted to take the boat upriver with the material barge in tow but went aground at the mouth of the river. Fortunately they only roughed up the crew and did not take them captive and hold them for ransom. Obviously the grounding prevented that option. They stole all they could carry off, even making a return trip for more booty, but the tug captain was able to alert Chevron authorities on another radio once they'd left the barge in the first instance. It was hours before the pitifully ineaduaquate security force provided by Chevron arrived on the scene. The boat is presently immovable, the towing cable being wound in one of the ship's screws, and the swells are presently causing the towed barge to bump against the tug. Divers will have to clear the prop before the tug can be moved. Indications are it was an inside job. Cell phones are now prevelant in the 3rd world, and information of the ship's vulnerability must have been passed to the pirates in that the boat caried no security force aboard.

More to follow.

Your humble reporter,

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

0030 2 APR 07 local time - NIGERIA

Just awakened, vessel getting underway to close on lay barge Cheyenne. Tug boat Gulf Fleet has been siezed by militants in same general area. Tug had just delivered a deck onboard a materhal barge which she was towing that was set on a platform a couple of days ago. Our security onboard (of somewhat dubious value) is alerted and we have gone to darken ship to give better night vision to them. I have instructed them to shoot to kill if militants approach this vessel. I will advise as events unfold.

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
April 14, 2004
Pensacola, Florida

Dear Sir:

A GRAVE MISTAKE

It has now become perfectly obvious to all but the most blind of observers, that though the Bush Administration had an excellent plan for the defeat of the Iraqi Army and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, they had little or none for the occupation and administration of the country afterward. General Jay Garner was not long at his post as administrator before he was ordered relieved by Paul Bremer. Whether
Garner made significant mistakes, or just fell afoul of the Bush Administration, I don't know. One thing I do know, however, is that he did not make the catastrophic mistake that his successor has, a mistake that has led to utter chaos in Iraq and a situation bordering on civil war.

In ancient times a defeated army was dealt with in one of two ways, they were either put to the sword or led away in chains. In more recent times, only those
unfortunate armies surrendered to the Russians in WWII suffered a similar fate. As generals became more enlightened and capable, their defeated foes were often welcomed as comrades in arms for future campaigns. This became the policy of both Alexander and Caesar, two of the most successful generals in history. In more recent times, defeated armies were retained in camp, and even under arms in certain situations, until conditions in their conquered territory was satisfactory to allow for their return to civilian life. The free world allies in WWII retained the vast majority of their German and Japanese prisoners in military formations for a
considerable time after the conclusion of hostilities. The only successful instance I know of a defeated army that was released in their home country prior to the
establishment of military and administrative authority was the Southern armies at the conclusion of the War Between The States. Armies are, after all, not of
themselves evil. They may be led by evil men, and directed to perform evil tasks, but in the main, armies are composed of young men performing the tasks required of a soldier. Kept in place, a conquered army can become a very useful tool. For one thing, disarmed and in place they are capable of little mischief. Under close supervision and direction they can be set to useful tasks, with the bad apples in their ranks being identified and weeded out as necessary. Turned loose, with little skills other than those of the soldier, they soon join the ranks of the unemployed and a society in disarray. "An idle mind", they say, "is the Devil's workshop.", and none, I believe, will argue with this old saw. Many of these summarily discharged soldiers were shortly turned to evil purpose by the persuasions and cash payments of the
henchmen of Saddam Hussein yet on the loose, or fell in with the warlords who mask their evil ambitions under the guise of religion.

It is now a bit late to reverse course and recall the Iraqi army, that would be too much loss of face for the administration, and too much fodder for the Presidential aspirations of John Kerry. The US must now either bite the bullet and fight and destroy the forces that oppose them, or take the course of the cowardly Clinton, who, after the debacle in Somalia, declared victory and withdrew his army in humiliation and disgrace.

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
February 17, 2004
Pensacola, Florida

Dear Sir:

The response of the Lexington Police and Fire Department to the 911 'shooting and wounding' call at Adams Lane on Friday the 13th, was incompetent to the point of being criminally so. Not the individual officers that responded, including the unfortunate ones shot, but the persons in those departments responsible for Operations. When the rescue unit arrived, and the two paramedics proceeded to render aid to the victim, why weren't the Lexington Police there as well with guns drawn? This is the procedure in any competent law enforcement organization when confronted with a domestic violence shooting incident. I suppose they were busy eating donuts and plotting their next drunk driving entrapment. Shortly thereafter, hundreds of law enforcement personnel did begin converge upon the area, cordoning off all access and closing the adjacent Interstate as well. Poor Fontaine Hutchinson, and one of the paramedics remained lying in the yard, both apparently dead, though no one could say for sure. You should never assume anything in this sort of situation, as any competent Battlefield Surgeon will tell you. soldiers have lain on the battlefield for days after being wounded, and though thought dead, been found to be alive when assistance was able to reach them. The police should have immediately driven an armored vehicle into the yard, shielding the shooting victims in the process, and removed them. If no vehicle had been available they should have ringed the house with sharpshooters, fired in tear gas, and then if the lunatic didn't immediately surrender, storm the house with the SWAT team and take him out with stun grenades and live fire. What should they give a damn about a shooting suspect when his victims might be yet alive, especially so when he was impeding assistance to the victims? On top of it all he'd just murdered a fellow officer! Not this bunch of bumblers, they then proceed with attempts to get the lunatic to come out of the house and surrender. Nearly six hours transpire in useless conversation before they finally fire tear gas into the house and smoke him out. Any chance that either of the victims might have been saved is by then obviously long gone. At one time the Lexington Police Department had brave, competent and resourceful Officers, obviously no more!

Now this murdering lunatic will spend the remainder of his life in the insane asylum, all at taxpayer's expense, of course, and the families of the unfortunate victims will have to console themselves with police insistence that they were both killed immediately when shot, and that nothing could have saved their lives. Well of course you can believe the police, they never lie. ....Yeah, right!

Thoroughly disgusted,

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
February 14, 2004
Lexington, Kentucky

KANGAROO COURT FOR MARTHA STEWART!

Martha Stewart, a successful, intelligent, entrepreneurial lady, has had her name dragged through the mud, and her well deserved reputation trashed, for a crime she didn't commit. The US Government is now conducting a kangaroo court, in a monumental attempt to put her behind bars, and all for the glorification of the (so-called) Justice Department and a group of slick and slimy prosecuting attorneys assigned to the case. The media has aided and abetted this outrage to the fullest by keeping her name and picture in the forefront of news and portraying her as a criminal. "The truth", they say, "shall set you free.", but it obviously doesn't sell newspapers, so don't go looking for it there. The real criminal in this case has never even been mentioned, nor even hinted at in fact. He remains unnamed and unindicted, and from the looks of things, will go scot-free, while others suffer underserved consequences for his crime. The story goes like this, and pay particular attention, because you've never gotten it in true format from either the media or the government. I'm also going to lay it out for you right here, without all the legal gobbledygook and extraneous and unnecessary details. Sam Waksal had a company called ImClone. It was a drug company, and as such, it developed, well drugs of course. One such product was a cancer fighting agent which had been submitted to the FDA for approval, a sometimes long and laborious process. The FDA at some point decided it was ineffective. (A decision that has since been reversed, a typical government action.) That information, supposed to be of utmost secrecy until released to the general public, was leaked to Sam Waksal prior to this public release by someone within the FDA. Who leaked it to Waksal we don't know, but he's the crook that betrayed the public trust and the man that should be serving ten to twenty years in the slammer, not Martha Stewart. Now it gets tricky, the information Waksal had is known as 'inside information' for obvious reasons, and if you have it, you are required by law to keep it secret and not to profit by it. Waksal doesn't keep it under his hat and tips family members to unload the stock. Now get this, Sam Waksal doesn't tell Martha Stewart, he doesn't tell stockbroker Peter Bacanovic either, he only tips his family, but Bacanovic gets wind of it by virtue of noticing that Waksal's family is unloading the stock, and he puts two and two together. After all, this is his job, he's a stockbroker, he's supposed to have a feel for the market, as well as a responsibility to his clients to advise them effectively on their stock transactions.

Well it looks to Bacanovic like something has gone wrong at ImClone if Waksal's family is unloading their stock and that it may soon drop in value, perhaps drastically. Now Martha Stewart is his main client as well as a friend, he makes vast amounts of money as commission off her stock transactions, and he retains this 'bread and butter' client because he gives her good advice. He therefore orders his subordinate, Douglas Faneuil, to inform Martha that he expects ImClone to drop in value and advise her to sell her stock before she has incurred a loss.

Now Martha didn't get to where she is in life by being dumb, and so she immediately instructs Faneuil to unload her holdings in ImClone. Well it isn't very many days later that it becomes obvious that all this ImClone stock had been most suspiciously sold right before the stock dropped to nearly nothing in value. It obviously doesn't take too much perception to realize that the Waksal family members that unloaded
their holdings must have gotten that information from Sam. Well Sam soon fesses up, and right now he's serving seven years in a federal prison for his crime, but he doesn't implicate Martha Stewart or Peter Bacanovic, despite government entreaties that he do so. Waskal doesn't implicate them because he told them nothing, and even though the government offers him leniency in return for this implication, he refuses. Well by now Stewart and Bacanovic realize they're in
trouble, not because they've actually done anything wrong, but because it looks bad, and much of Stewart's fortune as well as Bacanovic's reputation is built on public trust. At this point they cook up this cockamamie story about an agreement to sell the stock once it dropped below a certain value, and they so inform FBI agents assigned to the case. Of course Stewart realizes now this was a very serious mistake. It used to be that you could lie to anyone in this country you wanted to, so long as you weren't under oath. It might not have been the proper thing to do, but you couldn't go to jail for it. Well that's all changed, our all knowing Congress has passed a law making anything you say to a known FBI agent the same as it were testimony under oath. (Of course the FBI itself isn't held to these high standards, and regularly lies with impunity to the American Public, the Congress, and whomever. Otherwise the criminals responsible for the murders at Ruby Ridge and the immolation of the children at Waco would be in jail.) Martha would have been far better off using the Clinton Defense of "I don't remember." She'd also have been better off if she'd read Hunter S. Thompson in her spare time, who says, "Never believe the first thing an FBI agent tells you about anything - especially, not if he seems to believe you are guilty of a crime." In the meantime the government has gotten to Bacanovic's assistant, Douglas Faneuil, and forced him to recant his previous testimony. In fact, they've got his so scared he's willing to say anything they want him to in order to convict Stewart and Bacanovic. If the jury is willing to accept this testimony by a notorious liar, perjurer, and doper, I suppose poor
Martha and Bacanovic are soon off to the penintenary.

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
January 2, 2004
Lexington, Kentucky

We are all well aware of the interruption in international air traffic in recent days. Flights from France and Britain have been canceled or delayed, and
one flight, at least, was escorted into US airspace by armed fighter jets ready to blast it out of the sky should it attempt to travel any path other than it's approved flight plan. The plane was then held on the ground for nearly three hours before passengers were allowed to deplane. The explanation given was that several passengers on the flight had similar names to terrorists on the FBI's International Watch List. After questioning, all passengers were released, all apparently having been properly identified and found to be harmless travelers. Now we learn that the French Government has made complaint that faulty intelligence is involved in the cancellation of at least one flight. On this flight a child was one of the suspects, his name having triggered suspicions. The FBI is apparently unaware that the names Mustafa, Abdul, and Mohamed are as frequent in the Middle East as are Tom, Dick and Harry in the US. The other suspected passengers were completely innocent as well. (I wonder if all suspected passengers were checked to see if they were carrying Almanacs?) Of course it staggers the imagination to think that any terrorist on an International Watch List would travel into the US using his own name and passport. That would have made about as much sense as John Dillinger checking into the Palmer House in Chicago on July 22, 1934, and registering under his own name. For those of you unaware of History, this was the day he was apprehended and killed by the FBI while leaving a movie theater there. Apparently this hasn't occurred to the FBI. I am beginning to suspicion that the FBI is relying upon the same computer system that is used to determine the National Champion in college football, the BCS computer system. We are all well aware that USC just nailed down the Championship yesterday in the Rose Bowl by destroying Michigan, and yet according to the BCS computers, the National Championship will be determined in New Orleans in a wholly meaningless game several days hence. I wonder how the computer system matches up names. Ah, I think I have it! The names of the terrorists on the FBI's International Watch List are known, they are then entered into the computer's data system. Then a program is written to match names of passengers on all international flights into the US against this same list and to note suspicious similarities. Now let's see, let's just say that six of the names on the International Watch List are as follows: Howdy Doody, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, Long John Silver, Black Bart and Dr. Fu Manchu. An Air France flight from Paris to LA lists on it's passenger manifest the
following names: Howard Dooley, Tinkem Beale, Captain Hooker, L.J. Silvers, Bartley Black and Dr. Fulham Manchester. The computer immediately seizes upon the obvious similarities of the names and this information is rushed to the desk of the FBI's Terrorism Duty Officer, who immediately passes the information directly to FBI Director, J. Edgar Ashcroft. The vast might and bureaucracy of the Federal Government then grinds slowly into motion, soon developing the momentum of a Juggernaut, which can be neither delayed nor deterred in it's self righteous course of action. The consequence of this monumental waste of government time and money, is the offending flight is delayed or canceled, and the plans and business dealings of hundreds, perhaps thousands, 'gang aft agley'. The aforementioned Howard Dooley, Tinkem Beale, Captain Hooker, L.J. Silvers, and Doctor Fulham Manchester, innocent victims of a computer mismatch, are free to continue there travels unmolested. Well unmolested until perhaps the next time the computer matches their name against the FBI's international Watch List and then it's, "Deja Vu all over again." Quite frankly, I would rather my security be dependant upon the police force of Mayberry, North Carolina, than the FBI, known, by the way, in some knowledgeable quarters, as Fumbling Bumbling Idiots!

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
January 1, 2004
Lexington, Kentucky

So what's th' big deal?

The overwhelming fear in America today isn't Terrorism, it's Mad Cow Disease! It seems that if you ingest beef from a Mad Cow an insidious protein invades your body, eventually settling in your brain where it multiplies and turns it to sponge.

Hell, 90% of Americans might as well have sponge for brain for what little use they get out of it, so what difference does it make if it's already sponge or eventually will be? (Perhaps with Mad Cow more people may vote for Howard Dean? That could be of great concern to Republicans. J. Edgar Ashcroft better look into the possibility of just such a conspiracy!) The important thing is the price of beef is going down and now I have changed my mind about the menu and will have steak for dinner tonight instead of pork chops!

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
November 18, 2003
Somewhere in Tennessee

DEATH OF A GIANT

I was driving through Dixieland last night, frantically surfing the radio dial for something I could possibly stand listening to, but with very little success. Finally I got a bit North of Birmingham and Nashville's WSM, the finest Station in the South, came into range. A short while later I learned that Don Gibson, a true great in the music industry, had passed away that afternoon in Nashville at the age of seventy-five. It was sad news, but as the station played some of his classics in tribute, a warm glow began to envelop me. Gibson wasn't like one of the pretty boys stars of today who prance around in
front of a rock band mumbling the insipid drivel that is foisted off on the public as country music. No indeed, Gibson, a North Carolina native who had broken out in the music business around Knoxville nearly fifty years ago, was the Real McCoy. He was an accomplished guitarist, a very good singer, and a
magnificent song writer; in short he could do it all, and did! A member of the Grand Ole Opry for forty years, the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, the Country
Music Hall of Fame, and with a long list of awards, tributes and recognitions far too numerous to mention, he was indeed a giant in Country Music. His music also had broad spectrum appeal, not only did he top the Country charts on many occasions but his music played well on the Pop charts as well. Many of his songs, with their plaintive sound and message of heartbreak, were covered by R&B artists. His music can still be heard today being played in the heart of the Cajun Country of Louisiana. No one that grew up in this country during the late 50's and 60's, when Don Gibson hit full stride, could help but be moved by the likes of OH LONESOME ME, SEA OF HEARTBREAK, JUST ONE TIME, and I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU. His music, like that of other American greats, will live forever. Farewell Don Gibson, thank you, and God bless you.

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
November 6, 2003
New Orleans, LA

OUTRAGEOUS ARMY INJUSTICE

The enemy now faced in Iraq is without doubt the most uncivilized foe our country has encountered throughout our history. They are not an army, represent no nation, country, tribe, nor civilization, and they are totally barbaric and vicious in their methods of warfare. They are loosely affiliated groups of terrorists and assassins only, and as such are nothing but outlaws and outcasts of civilization. They are protected by no international law, treaty or convention of war, and US troops are not required to deal with them as enemy combatants. When encountered in hostile situations they should be struck and eliminated from the ranks of the living in the most efficient manner possible. They have no international rights to protect them from whatever may happen to them should they fall live into our hands, though we as Americans can be expected to behave in a civilized manner regardless. This, however, does not mean that we should behave as fools, consequently exposing our troops to unnecessary death and destruction because of some lamely conceived notions about the delicacy of methods of interrogation which must be used to obtain critical information from a prisoner.

The Army has recently filed a criminal assault charge against an American officer who coerced an Iraqi suspect into providing information that foiled a planned attack on U.S. soldiers. The interrogation technique utilized caused no physical harm, but was quite effective in frightening the prisoner into revealing a deadly plot against US troops as well as the name of his co-conspirators. A proper report of the entire incident was made by the officer in charge to his superiors as required by regulations and, quite properly, he considered the matter closed. Not so however, some group of army inspectors arrived at a later date to conduct some sort of review of the command. In the process the report of the incident was discovered and subsequently, criminal assault charges have been brought against the officer involved. He now stands to appear before a court martial board, and if found guilty, may expect punishment up to and including dishonorable discharge and imprisonment.

This is an absolute outrage! A competent and conscientious officer may forfeit his career, his reputation and his future because some chair bound weasel in the Pentagon has decided to court martial him. I suggest a congressional investigation be convened to look into the entire matter, not only into the incident itself but into the circumstances surrounding the preferring of the actual charge. I also suggest the inquiry look into the officer or officers in the Pentagon that are responsible for preferring this charge, both as to their reasons for doing so, as well as to their own competence as combat soldiers. I suspect you will find no combat records of any merit whatsoever, only desk bound generals with monumental egos to balance their complete lack of operational ability. If court martial charges are to be brought against anyone I suggest the Pentagon officers responsible for preferred the charge be tried for criminal incompetence. As well as the damage to the officer charged, if these charges are maintained, damage to the army itself will become monumental. Troop morale, already low, in spite of government assertions to the contrary, will plummet even further. If an officer doing his job in pressing the war against the enemy is ruined for doing his duty, can any reasonable soldier be expected to see any point in subjecting himself to possible court martial and ruin? Our troops will begin to avoid the enemy rather than seek him out, in hope of seeing their tour in that Hellhole come to an end so they can return safely to their home. The parallels to Vietnam are becoming uncanny!

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
October 31, 2003
New Orleans, LA

FIRE DISCIPLINE

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

John Edwin Roberts
October 30, 2003
New Orleans, LA

The Poor Sap!

John Edwin Roberts
October 27, 2003
New Orleans, LA

A BRAVE AND FEARLESS REPORTER!

As a reporter myself, I understand that to be in the forefront of your chosen profession you must go to the location where news is being made. Many times this places you in the very path of great and imminent danger but any reporter worth his salt will be there regardless. I was therefore very gratified to see on the news last night that Great Icon, that National Institution, that Magnificent Man, none other than 'Gunga Dan' Rather himself right there in San Diego and facing the worst fires in all of California history. He had strategically placed himself right there by San Diego Harbor, no doubt assisting the bucket brigade in their efforts to quench the fires, and in the background you could plainly see the smoke rolling off the hills to the East of the city. Unfortunately I am unable to be there myself, but were I, why you would find me right there by my fellow reporter's side, ably reporting the news in the very teeth of imminent danger. Yes, it's very dangerous
there by the dock in San Diego Harbor, at least twenty miles from any active fires, and close to the very finest restaurants, hotels and bars. I'm surprised the son-of-a-b@#$* didn't don firefighter's apparel to make him appear even more credible, just as he once posed in fighter's garb in Pakistan with a rag tied round his head, pretending all the while to be at the front line in Afghanistan! Yeah, that Gunga Dan's a real piece of work ain't he? In actuality, being a Staff Reporter for San Diego Beachlife Magazine, had I, or another fine reporter such as Charles De Tomasi of the International Bureau, been in the area you could have found us perched atop Frank Tom's observation deck overlooking Harbison Canyon and right in the midst of the firey inferno that is East San Diego County. I am sure my fearless Boss, Editor Marshall, can be found in a position of similiar access to the actual fires as we speak. Therefore, if you look for real news, don't bother to tune in the evening gabble from such as Gunga Dan, or the other two nightly nitwits, but go right straight to a real news source!

John Edwin Roberts
World Correspondent at Large
San Diego Beachlife Magazine

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