SGT William A. Geresy (ret)'s Blog – May 2016 Archive (20)

Donald Trump supporter and retired marine Al Baldasaro ripped the press Tuesday for its coverage of Trump’s veterans donations, telling the “liberal media” to “get your head out of your butt.”

Trump claimed at the press conference to have raised $5.6 million for veterans groups. Multiple media reports…

Most continue to believe likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a lawbreaker, but half of all voters also say a felony indictment shouldn’t stop her campaign for the presidency.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters think Clinton should immediately stop campaigning if she is charged with a felony in connection with her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of State. Fifty percent (50%), however, think she…

WASHINGTON — A Senate investigation of poor health care at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah, Wis., found systemic failures in a VA inspector general’s review of the facility that raise questions about the internal watchdog’s ability to ensure adequate health care for veterans nationwide.

The probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the inspector general’s office, which is charged with independently investigating VA complaints, discounted…

Please take the time to remember our fallen heroes this weekend.  Lay flowers at a grave.  Attend a parade.  Spend some of this weekend to thank a veteran for serving.

Here is a link to a commercial that touched me.  Both my Dad (WWII) and myself (Vietnam Era, Cold War, Operation Iraqi Freedom) served.  My Dad was still around to welcome me home from Iraq.  Since we were both Sergeants, there was no salute.  But there was the proud hug.…

This is an easy one.  It will be a very hot summer with riots outside the GOP Convention in Cleveland and riots INSIDE the Democrat Convention in Philadelphia.

There will be a great many violent events outside of events for Donald Trump as he campaigns.

The cause of all this violence is an extreme low knowledge and tolerance factor on the left.  This will cause severe violence in areas dominated by left.

The long range forecast for fall as the strong possibility of an…

Students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism. More than 1,300 students at the Midwestern liberal arts college have now signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester, and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written…

A Memorial Day display featuring dozens of white crosses to honor fallen soldiers was removed from public property in Georgia after someone complained.

The 79 handmade crosses in Hiram were meant to represent the 79 Paulding County residents who died in America’s wars, officials…

A self-identified IRS employee admitted he would go after, target and try to end conservative groups who wanted to abolish the IRS, to Cleta Mitchell, an attorney representing those groups, on a Washington Journal segment on C-SPAN.

Mitchell, a political law attorney who has represented conservative groups during the IRS targeting…

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn't either.

"When you got to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what's important? What's important is, what's your satisfaction with the experience?" McDonald said Monday during a…

How long can the bureaucrats in education extend the idea that competition and conflict should be banished in the educational system? Somehow, the school board in Wake County North Carolina thinks reducing competition will lead to a better education for students. While the board has to vote twice on the policy change, it unanimously approved a proposal this week that would do away with the distinction of a high school graduate with the highest GPA being named valedictorian.…

The Padres have fired a third-party contractor the team determined was responsible for the audio flap Saturday that prevented the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus from performing the national anthem.

In a statement Sunday night, the team called the incident an "unintentional mistake" but said the lack of immediate action to correct the…

We wish this wasn’t true – but it looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s message hasn’t got through to Facebook’s employees. Conservative activist and Donald Trump supporter Lauren Southern was just kicked off the site for a totally inoffensive post noting its censorship of another conservative.

More: UVA Jackie Faked Both Rape – and…

At first glance, the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation is a roaring success. According to its tax filings, the charity has received more than $29 million in donations from generous Americans from 2010 to 2014 for what it calls on its website "aiding, supporting and benefiting America's veterans and their families."

Facebook is re-building the gatekeeper role once claimed by The New York Times editorial board, but with less accountability.

When Congress rushed in two years ago to fix a chronic delay problem at the Veterans Health Administration, one of the key reforms was a new, $10 billion program called Veterans Choice.

The goal was to give vets an option of going to a private doctor if they weren’t able to get a timely appointment with a government-paid VHA doctor.

“If you live more than 40 miles from a VA facility, or if VA doctors can’t see you within a reasonable amount of time, you’ll have the chance to…

Sorry ladies. The Obama Administration’s liberal minions and judges just ended women’s sports. The liberal argument currently being made for restrooms is not based on biology, but on what a person “feels they are”. Most commentators are rightfully afraid that this opens the door for “perverted” men to pose as women and freely enter women’s locker rooms and…

Today is kind of special to me.  The Saturday before Mother's Day is when I celebrate coming home from Iraq.

Alpha Company activated in April, 2003, 27 days after the rest of the Battalion we were to be part of.  We sure hit the ground running as by our day 30, battalion day 57, we had passed them on all the measurable.

In June we flew to Kuwait.  Hotter than bloody heck!  In July after a very hot two day convoy, we arrived in Baghdad, Iraq.

The team's first mission was…