Welcome! (scroll down for recent posts…a ways down now that my friends have added their endorsement videos!)
Hi, I’m glad you found my blog!
If you haven’t visited before, you might want to take a moment to read my quick overview, ‘The Mission In A Nutshell,’ explaining why this blog and my goal here are vitally important.
I try to make Get Glenn Mobile! more than just a fundraising site. I think if someone’s going to bug you to donate, it’s their responsibility to not only explain themselves, but to maintain a running dialog with the world. Life is dynamic, not static, so I try to keep fresh content to interest visitors and have some fun while we’re at it.
Of course, priorities are what they are, and while this blog should always be a place for lively discussion, I can’t put its goal on the back shelf. If you enjoy your visit, I hope you’ll feel my project is worth a donation, even a small one. My plan is to reach as many people as possible in the hopes that some of them will donate even a nominal amount…with enough of these I’m sure we can accomplish the goal: Get Glenn Mobile!
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Thanks to the efforts of my friends and allies promoting this blog in new endorsement videos produced by the marvelous talent and liberty activist, my good friend Tatiana Moroz, aided and abetted by the extraordinary donation matching pledge by Dr. Woods, even more donations have been received, and as of 5/26/2012 we’re up to about $7500, that’s approximately 29%…almost one third of the goal of $26,000, still a minority of the needed total but a mighty significant figure nonetheless! Please keep the momentum up folks…the word’s getting out, the goal’s getting closer fast, and if this keeps up I’ll be mobile in short order!
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Put Some Starch In Your Memorial Day
For too many people Memorial Day is just another Fed-inspired three day weekend, bereft of meaning apart from the chance to collect a day’s pay for doing nothing but watching a war movie or some game on TV. The Establishment sees it as just another tool in its bag of self aggrandizing tricks, further cementing the State worship that it inculcates in its charges from their earliest years, emphasizing and entrenching its role as an object of jingoistic tribalism for people to abase themselves before…hence the stress on war movies and team sports.
Originally known as Decoration Day, it was begun in 1868 as a remembrance for Confederate and Union soldiers killed during the Civil War but soon morphed into a general day of remembering those who lost their lives while serving in any of the armed forces of the United States.
For myself, I choose to celebrate the spirit of those people too, while keeping in mind that far too many of them were well meaning individuals whose selfless commitment to protect and defend America was cynically used by those in power to further their own ends, consolidate that power and sacrifice however many lives were required to accomplish this.
I suggest focusing upon three things especially today to get a better appreciation of what Memorial Day’s significance was, is, and appears to be going:
First, even if you’ve read it before, read The War Prayer, written by Mark Twain in 1904 and one of the best antidotes I’ve seen for the unthinking war propaganda that’s drummed into the heads of most Americans by those with an incentive to promote the slaughter and carnage of war. Twain’s tone, while somewhat bitter and cynical, is appropriate for the subject, as seen in this excerpt:
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”
Next, I recommend the short book, originally distributed as a pamphlet, War Is A Racket, by Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler in 1935. This man speaks with authority as one who spent his professional life in the service of the military, and was actually present as a participant in the many conflicts that twice earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor among many honors and awards bestowed by the U.S. government, and was at the time the most highly decorated Marine in U.S. history. Though nearly 80 years have passed, Butler’s assessment of the true motivations for the promotion of war is as accurate today as it was when he wrote those words.
Last, I strongly suggest you listen to the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul’s special Memorial Day podcast of their Language of Liberty show at 3PM Central time today. I’ve been privileged to know Adam House, Nick Allison, and others in or associated with this group, and can honestly say I have yet to meet a more sincere and consistent bunch of people in their dedication to freedom and the recovery of our liberties. Time and again they have demonstrated their unimpeachable integrity, and I treasure their friendship. I look forward to the honor of working with them in the future to better communicate the real views of American service members to the public, the better tocounter the scripted and wholly cynical war propaganda of the mainstream media, entirely disingenuous in their motives. Happily, like the dinosaurs they are, they’re fast becoming irrelevant as they sink into the tar pits of history, but can still do some damage in their flailing and bellowing on their way. Trust me, you’re a lot better served turning to the guys and gals with the real facts…the CVRP.
A happy and meaningful Memorial Day to you…in Liberty.
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Today marks the tipping point, I do believe, Tatiana Moroz leads the cavalry coming over the hill!
Yep, I’m pretty sure this project’s crossed that indeterminate event horizon and is beginning a sustained dash to the finish of its goal of restoring my liberty and releasing me from housebound confinement.
I woke this morning to find that my indomitable friend and ally, Tatiana Moroz, had posted even more videos featuring her with high profile people in the liberty community endorsing my cause.
I had a foretaste of good things when she published the video a few days ago with the amazingly talented Jordan Page, and today’s videos complimented that beautifully. The first with liberty activist and documentary producer Jason Rink got my day off with a great upbeat buzz, and when I saw the second, with Tatiana and Dr. Tom Woods adding his endorsement, I was just blown away.
As with Dr. Woods’ blog entry of January 11, I got too experience firsthand the power of all that goodwill and generosity focused on liberating me to recover my life and get out in public to pursue my new avocation as a liberty activist and New Media journalist…only better, since Dr. Woods’ admirers were joined by many new faces familiar with Jordan Page and Jason Rink’s liberty activism. If y’all followed this adventure on Facebook today, you’d have seen that Dr. Woods proposed a challenge for donors, offering to match funds with a donor who contributed $1000 within the hour…and it was answered by a gentleman who stepped up with that donation!
Not only did Tom Woods’ gesture go so far beyond any reasonable idea of aiding this cause as to be out of sight, he added yet another blog entry on his site directing his followers my way. That is the mark of a true gentleman…thank you, Dr. Woods!
I’m pretty frazzled from the exciting events of the day and don’t have an exact figure to update the total with, but by my reckoning we’ve jumped from yesterday’s 19%+ to about 29% or just about $7500…that’s almost one third of the way there!
I’m confident that I’ll be out of this limbo even sooner than expected, and I’m beyond thrilled at today’s huge gain. I’m also truly grateful to Lady Liberty, Tatiana Moroz, for putting all the effort into setting up, producing and publishing these videos, and to Dr. Woods, for coming through again on my behalf. It looks like we’ll be headed down the home stretch soon, and I can’t wait.
I detest saccharine platitudes and hokey, empty cliches, but today I can say with all honesty and sincerity: I am truly blessed to have such wonderful friends and allies. Thank you all.
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I Ain’t Got the Words
I had a mighty happy surprise when I checked my inbox this morning…a new endorsement video for Get Glenn Mobile! from both Tatiana Moroz and Jordan Page!
As with Tatiana’s music, at least I was an über fanboi of Jordan’s artistry before he made this video with Lady Liberty on my behalf. I’ll say it again, you owe it to yourself to check them both out, and you can purchase their music at very reasonable prices for your own collection from your favorite sources, or visit their web sites at http://jordanpagemusic.com/ and http://tatianamoroz.com/ respectively. If they’re new to you a visit to their sites is a great starting point to get to know these superb artists!
Thank you, friends. You’re helping this project really get up to speed and I’m grateful for the kindness.
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CVRP’s At It Again!
Man alive, I know I won’t be tearing off on trips of several hundred miles regularly once I’m mobile, but here’s another example of wishing especially hard I could make an event when I can’t.
My friends in the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul are gonna be busy this weekend, participating in the Texas for Freedom Rally & Music Festival in Austin this Friday thru Sunday (May 18 – 20).
During all this they’re also planning to march on the Texas State Capitol on Saturday, May 19th. This looks to be a weekend full of good stuff, celebrating liberty with fun and music, including an après-march party locally that promises to be a complete hoot. With a cast of characters like Sheriff Richard Mack, Jack Hunter, Tom Woods, Oath Keepers, Jimmie Vaughn, Jordan Page, Tatiana Moroz, and the other fine folks in the CVRP, this is a terrible tease for me. If you’re in or planning to be in the Austin area this weekend, you owe it to yourself to support liberty while having a great time by joining in. Read up on the details at the official site for the event as well as CVRP’s site!
Guys, you’ve got me mighty envious! Say…we have a State Capitol here in Nashville too, you know.
Just sayin’…
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Maybe I Succeeded TOO Well!
My mom announced she wants to get me an early birthday present, and had a couple of specific ideas.
She was certainly excited about being able to provide for her own security after years of living in the victim disarmament zone that is District of Criminals, and it’s pretty clear that my mission to get her interested in firearms ownership has succeeded. Maybe a little too well; after seeing me covetously looking at some of these, her idea was a new airsoft gun for a birthday gift for me. This time in keeping with both our latest acquisitions she gave me the go-ahead to order a revolver, one of the new breed of CO2-powered ones that hits hard enough even with the 6mm plastic BBs it fires to be disallowed in close quarters battles by those nutty sorts who go out in the woods for wargames and shoot at each other.
It’s quite the coincidence that she’ll be able to use it too to get used to the routines of her new S&W 642, huh? I’m sure not complaining. I’ll be getting a lot of use out of a birthday present like this myself…while the muzzle flip is more in line with that of a .22 rather than the kick of a .38 +P or stout .357 magnum, it does foster good trigger control and with the small muzzle displacement it does exhibit forces you to reacquire the target after each shot.
Her timing, too, is excellent…happy Mother’s Day, Mom, thank you!
What else would I like?
That’s a no-brainer; to recover my mobility in time to get to Tampa to write about, photograph and video the Veterans for Ron Paul March on the RNC for my column, of course! My birthday’s in June…there’s enough time if more people can just spare a few bucks to make this happen. I’ll keep doing my part to make this project as visible as possible to as many new viewers as we can get.
Please do your part as you can, and if you’ve already contributed, won’t you help get the message out by spreading the word to your friends and family? We already know the mainstream media will pointedly ignore the voices of the veterans…and that’s a true injustice. My column in the American Daily Herald isn’t as big or widely read as those in other venues, but there’ll be plenty of content in one place to point readers to, and sooner or later we’ll reach a point where we supporters of Dr. Paul, along with his message of sane fiscal policy, sound money and non-interventionist international relations just can’t be ignored any longer!
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A Nice Surprise, Courtesy of the CVRP
I’m a fan of Adam House’ ‘Language of Liberty’ internet radio show, just one of the fine endeavors by the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m an admirer of this group for a lot of good reasons, not least this broadcast. Adam even allowed me to spend a bit of time co-hosting one last week, and it was indeed a blast.
Tonight’s show had an impressive lineup of guests discussing the liberty…or the lack of it…in health care in America, specifically focusing on veterans and disabled veterans. Though a lifelong civilian, I had a thing or two to say on the subject, so although weekday shows are usually on too constrained a schedule to accept callers for them, on a hunch I phoned in and put myself in the queue.
Unexpectedly, Adam accepted the call, and I spent a short time discussing what was on my mind with him and tonight’s co-host, Eric Field. This was a real pleasure, as I hadn’t met Eric before, and in addition to his involvement with CVRP, it turns out he’s a columnist for the Examiner online from Richmond, VA. It’s always fun to jaw with someone doing similar things as yourself, and while I don’t expect to make a pest of myself calling in too frequently on those busy weekday shows, tonight I have to thank Adam for the privilege as well as meeting a new friend and colleague in the liberty movement. Thank you both, Adam and Eric, for allowing me to participate in a really worthy endeavor tonight!
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It’s The Disability, Stupid
Another hectic week here…well, what passes for hectic for me these days.
I’m still racking my brain for ways to increase the blog’s visibility, contacting those people in the liberty community who run a YouTube channel with a large audience to get those donations rolling again. I’ve sure got a great foundation built already thanks to Tatiana Moroz, Nick Allison and Adam House with the endorsement videos they were kind enough to produce for me. Now all that’s wanted is some catalyzing act to propel it into the next stage of awareness where the donations are consistent enough to finish this project. What it’ll be I can’t say, but it will be a welcome development from the fits and starts that characterize any fundraising venture like this one.
In line with that, I was delighted on Thursday evening when Adam House invited me to co-host the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul ‘Language of Liberty’ broadcast for a time, always a fun exercise but doubly so in this case because their featured guest was Dr. Walter Block, a well known economist, writer and professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans. I’ve enjoyed his work for a long time and it was a real pleasure to speak with him, however briefly. Another guest who appeared on the show, William Coley, was a new name for me, but I found his talk inspiring. Mr. Coley is a student, a convert to the Muslim faith and an activist in that community to support it along with freedom oriented candidates like Ron Paul and others. Have a listen here if you’re inclined. I had a lot of fun, even though I’m still new at this sort of thing…George Noory won’t have to worry about any competition from me any time soon!
I’ve got another new article for the American Daily Herald ready for publication and expect to see it in the next day or two, plus the warm weather activities I’ve mentioned before like airsoft target shooting and small radio control aircraft flying I enjoy.
I hate to admit it, but all of these are really pushing my limits, between the fatigue, insomnia and nuttiness of my ongoing imprisonment here, I’m about tapped out. Once this blog’s fundraising mission succeeds, it’ll take a lot of that pressure off; it does take up far too much of my attention and energy at this point…but it’s heartening to know that I’ll be able to do the other things I’ve mentioned more effectively at that point. Still, I’m reminded daily of my limits when I just hit the wall and can’t do one more thing, maddening since none are particularly taxing for a healthy person but with these afflictions that produce fatigue and other cognitive effects like my multiple sclerosis you’re going to see those limits that just can’t be ignored. If that’s a difficult concept to understand for healthy people, you might want to have a look at my earlier entry discussing Christine Miserandino and her ‘Spoon Theory’ that’s still the best explanation of the energy limitations we face.
As always, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave a donation if you’ve enjoyed your visit…don’t forget, we’re under some time pressure to complete the goal here to turn me loose in time to join my friends in the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul in their march on the RNC in August!
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Horse Tradin!’
I’ve got the guilts for not updating in several days, but it’s been a busy week.
I thoroughly enjoyed my participation in last week’s internet radio program with Adam House and Nick Allison of the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul. My only regret was not being able to talk with Jordan Page and Alexander Mosley, the first two guests on the CVRP show. Beyond his obvious artistic skill as a musician, Jordan just strikes me as such a regular guy I’d enjoy conversing with, and given Alexander Mosley’s experience with foreign affairs that jibes with many of the issues that intrigue me, I bet a talk with him would be a memorable one. I hope I can be involved again with a future show and perhaps all that will happen!
In addition to that, I was recently disappointed when I discovered that my bad left hand’s function has deteriorated over the last few years to the point where I can’t work the slide on a full size semiauto pistol, so after some horse trading on several sites and a bunch of emails, I traded the SIG Sauer P239 that’s been my carry sidearm for years for a like-new Ruger SP101 .357 magnum revolver. I miss the SIG, but the Ruger’s a wonderfully built little beast and is just one more reason to get mobile. I’m years overdue for a trip to the range to practice and spend a couple of hours plinking with my .22 target pistol!
Even my mom got caught up in the firearm frenzy and announced she too was ready for a defensive gun of her own. More ads and emails followed, and yesterday she found herself the owner of a great little Smith & Wesson Model 642 .38 Special +P! She had to cough up the scratch for it, though I negotiated a good deal for her…as with my own trade that didn’t incur any financial outlay, I’m trying to raise funds here, not spend them, not even hers (any more than necessary)!
EDIT- That last line could be misread, it occurs to me. I consider funds raised for my mobility project absolutely sacrosanct, period. When I purchase the occasional item on eBay, for instance, I keep track of how much is coming out of the PayPal account, then transfer increments of $50 or so as needed back to that account from what’s in my checking account. I only have the one PayPal account, and I’m careful about bookkeeping!
I’m glad that’s done, I need to chill a bit and get back to writing. All this gun stuff’s given me a few ideas, not just for the blog, but for a new Herald article. I’d better get some rest and let my eyes uncross…
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Big Fun Tonight, Join In!
Unless some last minute change precludes it, I’m scheduled to join the fine folks of the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul this evening at 8PM CDT on Adam House’s blogtalkradio program. I’m really looking forward to hanging out with the fellas…and the talented Tatiana Moroz, if memory serves, along with their featured guest Jordan Page, a central figure among the many artists supporting Ron Paul and his message of liberty.
How cool! I was out of the loop for years dealing with survival issues surrounding my MS and disability and missed much of the growing phenomenon of musical artists joining and promoting the liberty movement, but I’m catching up as fast as I can.
It’s an exciting time to be alive, for sure; the new breed of musical artisans is every bit as talented as the folk and rock protest musicians that proved to be such a powerful force during the 1960s, but while their sincerity and commitment matches that of the earlier generation, they strike me as more focused and precise in their methods. With their modern savvy and a clear awareness of the nature and motivations of those opposing them, I believe they’ll be an even greater influence on millions of people for promoting peaceful change in our world than their predecessors were.
Along with the important issues of liberty and recovering our fundamental rights that have been eroded and usurped, I’m also hoping that we can discuss my Get Glenn Mobile! project for restoring my own liberty, time permitting. The fundraising goal to modify my Honda has a ways to go before it’s met, and apart from retrieving my life from limbo, I want to get out in the world to broaden the scope of my journalistic endeavors, in particular to get myself down to Tampa in August to cover the Veterans for Ron Paul March on the RNC in my column for the American Daily Herald.
I hope you’ll join us for tonight’s broadcast of the CVRP program HERE. Remember, even if your schedule won’t let you listen to the live show, each program is archived for listening later at your leisure.
Hope to see you all there!
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I ♥ The Combat Veterans for Ron Paul!
These folks have really jumped in with both feet in supporting Get Glenn Mobile! by endorsing the cause, adding links to their site, and now writing an editorial explaining their position. I dont know how to thank you properly, with your efforts and those of your friends and supporters, this project’s not only going to succeed, it’ll do so in time for me to get to Tampa in August to join the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul as they march on the RNC and raise public awareness of the event in the American Daily Herald!
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