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Missing Chuck Norris

April 13, 2026 Sheila Stokes 3 Comments

I’ve was a long time fan of Chuck Norris, starting probably in the late 1970s, yes I’m that old. His passing on 19 March of this year has been sad for me in a way. It’s losing another person that I had looked up to for a long time. And it wasn’t without good reason. Not only did Chuck play strong, moral, very competent men in his shows, be they movie or TV, he was always pro-America. And yes, he was handsome. According to one interview I saw he was very aware of his image and refused to take any roles that would cast him in a bad light. He had been a role model for hundreds, maybe thousands of martial arts students long before he became a big actor. He didn’t want to take roles that showed him using drugs, stealing or doing anything immoral or dishonest. He wanted to be a role model that showed doing good was the “cool” thing to be and to do. Andrew Breitbart was 100% spot on when he said “Politics is downstream from culture”. I would maintain we need Chuck more now than ever.

Chuck was evidence that even coming from very humble beginnings if you are willing to work hard you can make something wonderful of yourself. He grew up with his two brothers Wieland and Aaron, and at 14 Chuck was rushing home from school to help his Mom. He babysat his two brothers while she worked, often the night shift, as a waitress. I recently re-read his autobiography, The Secret of My Inner Strength. But I guess I should say good luck finding it. It is a very inspiring book, and I’m actually shocked it’s not available as an e-book. He comes across as a very honest, humble down to earth man. He’s honest about mistakes, and lessons learned from them. I don’t believe that is something you see from many/any in Hollywood these days.

But he didn’t just make kick-butt movies and TV shows, literally. He was a kick-butt guy in real life. He and his second wife Gena started Kickstart Kids to help at risk kids. I’ve seen some YouTubes where officials are talking about the statistics and the difference that Kickstart Kids has made. How much higher the kids score in class, how they stay in school, are never involved in trouble. He and Gena were making a difference in the future of our country by helping bring up young people of value and character. I’m sure Gena will carry on. The few clips that have come out since Chuck’s passing seem to indicate she is pretty committed to carrying on his legacy and wishes. Honestly my heart breaks for her. They seem to have been a very happy couple and family life seems to have been one of his highest priorities as well as his relationship with G-d, and being a good Christian.

And Chuck was very aware of the youth in our country. He was sort of Charlie Kirk before Charlie Kirk, Youth Vote Is Key to 2016 and Saving America. This was written in January of 2015.

At the same time, there is still a high level of social and political mistrust among millennials. Therefore, I believe, for the next two years, we the people have a unique ability to help change our country by reaching out to young people in our own lives and our circles of influence. We shouldn’t wait for our political party or presidential candidate to lead the way in reaching young voters. At the very least, as parents and grandparents, we need to be the primary models, mentors and motivators in the lives of youths and not leave those roles to other educators or influencers.

As trusted loved ones and friends, we need to educate, inspire and challenge millennials to fight for what’s right in America, not merely what may be generationally favored, socially expedient or of personal interest. We must remind them of the importance of our republic’s history and legacy and that it’s all of our duty to set aside self and uphold the founding tenets of our country — to fight to preserve what has been handed to us. If we lay the groundwork in young people’s lives, they will be more apt to align themselves with a candidate who does the same, even if he or she runs on a platform that’s a bit contrary to their generational preferences or agenda.

And in February of 2015 he was bringing awareness to The Defend Freedom Tour speaking up for our Veterans and the scandals of the VA at the time, he was correct, our Veterans deserve better. His Missing in Action films were dedicated to his brother Wieland who was killed in Viet Nam.

Veteran, Patriot, and Christian Chuck Norris Fought for Our Troops and POW/MIAs

Norris was a veteran, having served in the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman from 1958 to 1962. His younger brother, Wieland Clyde Norris, a private in the 101st Airborne Division, was killed in June 1970 in Vietnam during the defense of Firebase Ripcord. Norris dedicated the Missing in Action films to his younger brother and was a consistent supporter of POW/MIA causes. He also served as a spokesperson for the Veterans Administration National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans.

Norris led USO tours, visiting troops in Iraq and beyond. He was made an honorary Marine, though the U.S. Marine Corps later joked about it in a tweet, saying it was the other way around: “Chuck Norris didn’t join the Marine Corps; the Marine Corps applied to him.”

He set a personal goal of meeting every Marine deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, shaking each one’s hand. By his own account, Norris shook hands with 37,000 U.S. troops in 2006 alone. He also visited the Task Force 399th Combat Support Hospital at Al Asad Air Base in 2007, signing autographs for wounded Marines.

Troops renamed military vehicles “Truck Norris,” and his image appeared throughout the country. Norris himself wrote about arriving in Iraq to find troops holding a sign reading, “Chuck Norris is here. We can now go home.”

The military’s secret language had a name: Chuck Norris

To most Americans, Norris was a martial artist and action hero. To generations of service members, he also became the centerpiece of a strange, durable mythology. The Chuck Norris jokes — absurd, hyperbolic, endlessly recycled — turned into more than throwaway lines. They became part of the emotional vocabulary of military life.

My combat deployment was no exception. Chuck Norris jokes covered bathroom walls, T-barriers, and whiteboards. They showed up during rocket attacks, after sniper fire, and in the lulls between incoming mortar fire. In a world built on danger and uncertainty, those ridiculous one-liners delivered something surprisingly useful: familiarity, laughter, and a brief reminder of invincibility.

That mattered more than civilians might think.

At one time he was a Democrat, but Chuck Norris Explains Why He Left the Democrat Party — ‘They Went Too Far to the Left and Lost All Reality of What America Stood For’ And the interview took place in 2014.

“I used to be a Democrat, but unfortunately the Democrats went too far to the left… and lost all reality of what America stood for.”

“And so, I realized that Republicans… are more focused on what is best for America,” Norris continued.

Norris went on to explain that the parties essentially switched places over time.

“What the Democrats believed forty years ago, the Republicans believe today… The Democrats just got too far off the trail. They just got completely [off] and lost all reality of what America stood for,” he said.

He was very politically savvy, and he used his platform to try to raise awareness of issues penning a two part column My Top 10 Resolutions for the New Congress (Part 1) and My Top 10 Resolutions for the New Congress (Part 2) written in January of 2015. He covered topics like repealing Obamacare, fiscal debt, the 10^th Amendment, fiscal sanity and fair tax. And as I read through it everything he wrote still applies today.

In addition to urging people to engage the youth, and help them realize their vote shapes their future, he and his wife Gena urged the faith community to become more engaged. Especially in voting, telling them sitting out elections leads to disastrous consequences.

Chuck Norris Issues Dire Warning to America written in September of 2012.

“We are here to talk about a growing concern we all share,” Chuck Norris explains. “If we look to history, our great country and freedom are under attack. We’re at a tipping point and, quite possibly, our country as we know it may be lost forever if we don’t change the course in which our country is headed.”

Gena warns that voter apathy among evangelicals in 2008 may have contributed to Obama’s election in the first place.

“With our country at a crossroads, Chuck and I have asked ourselves what we can be doing to help support this great country we’re blessed to live in and how we can encourage our like-minded American brothers and sisters to unite and let their voices be heard,” she said. “It is estimated that in the 2008 election, 30 million evangelical Christians stayed home on voting day and Obama won the election by 10 million votes.”

Chuck cautions Christians about the cost of doing nothing while the nation spirals into a state of socialism from which there will be no return.

He wrote his book Black Belt Patriotism in 2008, and that book you can still get, at least as an eBook.

And today we have podcasters and influencers, some of which President Trump recently labeled as “Low IQ” urging people to sit out the mid-terms, vote Demoncrat or stating the Republican party needs to be burned down. When you look at what Demoncrats are offering explain to me how they can consider that America first? Not only are they deranged, they’re insane. How is that even remotely good for our country. Are Republicans perfect? Oh heck no, but are they better? Yes. And you get to pick between the two. So.

The final Chuck topic I will bring up, probably, is illegal immigration. This man was a martial artist, and part of their success is being able to read their opponent, to see how if they make this move then it could be countered by this move or by doing that. You look down the road at how things can be extrapolated. This video clip was posted seventeen years ago, seventeen years!

Not only was he worried about illegal invaders, he was very worried about terrorism. Invasion USA was made in 1985 and involved a large number of terrorists dressing as people you’d normally trust, police, fire, medical or military and committing acts of terrorism. And then there were other that just went into neighborhoods and destroyed them. Either way, the social fabric of America was being destroyed because the trust in the structure of government was gone. All of that was synchronized across places in America. Again, made in 1985, but we’d never have that many terrorists in America to pull that off, right? Actually it didn’t look like all that many came in, some were sleeper cells that were already here. While the ending may have been slightly improbable, it was still great.

Which brings me to the last Chuck Norris movie I want to discuss. The Delta Force, it was filmed in 1986, partly in Israel and with the help of the Israeli government. They loaned them a plane. Chuck was very pro-Israel. I wonder if such a movie could ever be made today. The Jews aren’t the villains, the muslim terrorists are, and they were in the movie. The events, circumstance as players in that movie are still the same today. Lebanon still can’t free itself from Hezbollah, the formerly majority Christian country is now another Islamic occupied territory with a shrinking Christian population although right now Israel is giving them some hope. As the Hezbollah terrorists flee north, some of the Christian communities are fighting them as they try to take cover in their communities. They don’t want them. Hezbollah has been operating in Lebanon under the noses of the useless UN for years now. There is a line in The Delta Force when Joey Bishop talked about having been in Lebanon years ago and how beautiful it was. Islam destroys everything. My Anatolian Shepherd Shimshon and I have been binge re-watching Chuck Norris movies, his favorite is of course, Top Dog. But when we watched Delta Force this time, it had a far more powerful impact on me than when I saw it the first time. This time when the separated the Jewish men from their families it just tore me up. There were several parts of that movie that seemed harder this time. But nothing has changed, Islamic terrorists take hostages, Iran is a threat, it’s proxies are a threat and American weakness invites more of the same. The thought that a group of people that have occupied a country, terrorized it’s citizens and committed acts of terrorism against U.S. for 47 years and thinks they will bring on their messiah by plunging the world into chaos and covering it with blood and think when they are killed as a martyr they go to heaven and get 72 virgin goats are not going to be inclined to want a peace treaty. Now a ceasefire, sure. Re-arm, re-group, re-calibrate, re-supply, reload and resume. It’s the muslim terrorist way. For 47 years they’ve been chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”. But the left and the woke reich would have you believe they don’t mean it, they can’t do it, they wouldn’t do it. They do, and they’ve been doing it. Chuck was sounding the alarm on Islam.

Of course, many Americans watch on video a Middle Eastern woman allegedly caught in adultery, buried in the ground up to her head and being stoned to death, and think, “That could never happen in America.” But they fail to see how Shariah law has already been enabled and subtly invoked in our country, and that any such induction like it is brought about by understated lukewarm changes, like a frog boiled in a kettle by a slow simmer.

In April 2011 he started a series for WorldNetDaily called Holy Week Holy Shariah. Another in that series was Top 10 U.S. Shariah infiltrations, Part 2

I’ll say what I said at the outset of the last column: It is no mystery that radical Islamists intend to use the freedoms in our Constitution to expand the influence of Shariah law. But, still, too many Americans don’t know or understand how it threatens the very fabrics of our republic.

This is something Dr. Gad Saad often references. It’s not a secret, the muslims talk about the methods they will use to conquer the west. And those columns were written fifteen years ago. The reception of the columns at the time seems to have been derision. Because the left has to actually be thrown off the building themselves before they just even become willing to look at the truth. However much you despise the left wing media who don’t even attempt to hide their bias at the point, you don’t hate them enough. Note the difference in how the death of Rob Reiner openly hard core leftist was covered vs how the death of Chuck Norris, openly patriotic and conservative was covered.

And today, we have this Muslim Activists Now Say The Alamo Is An Islamic Structure. I want to make it extremely clear, this is not satire.

I see the Muslims are running the same play as they did in Jerusalem in 637 AD!

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Leftist activists want social studies classes to talk more about Islam’s longstanding impact on Texas history

Outside of the Islamic invasions that destroyed the Byzantine Empire and forced Europeans to sail West, there was no impact that Islam had on Texas’ founding.

But now they are claiming the Alamo is Muslim, actually.

I notice they didn’t try that nonsense until after Chuck had been gone for about a month.

I’ll leave you with a couple more things, a column with a nice synopsis of Chucks thoughts on different topics. What Chuck Norris Taught Us: Quotes on Strength, Discipline, and Life

And Glen Beck talking about how Chuck touched his an his son’s life when the boy was having troubles. And Glen said Chuck was like that with all the kids he met. Glenn Beck reflects on the death of his friend Chuck Norris

Ok, I changed my mind, one last Chuck Norris movie story. When Firewalker came out, I wanted to go see it and I wanted my Dad to go with me. He’d never seen a Chuck Norris movie, and I just felt he might really like them. Firewalker was definitely on the lighter side. So he finally gave in, we went, and another Chuck Norris fan was born.

Perhaps one of the most iconic fight scenes, and a fabulous friendship, Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtoVjRq0YIs

Rest in peace Chuck, you earned it. A man that modeled decency, honesty, goodness, faith, family, self-reliance and being prepared to defend yourself however you need. Perhaps he inspired people to seek G-d, to ask for knowledge and wisdom. To find courage to do the right thing, just because it’s the right thing. Even if it make you a lone wolf.

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Why Does The FIB Hate Patriotic Women?

August 5, 2022 Sheila Stokes

So the very confused FIB has put out a bulletin designating certain patriotic symbols and people as indications of “Domestic Terrorism”.

This is far from the first time law enforcement has decided normal patriotic sayings or symbols are a “threat to democracy”, a favorite phrase of the communist Demoncratic party. Anything that doesn’t advance the cause of Communism in their evaluation is a “threat to our democracy”. Apparently the leftist loons never learned in school that we are a Constitutional Republic. A rule of law, not mob rule, which is why they hate the Constitution, among other reasons.

Hop into the way back machine with me, back to 2009. The Missouri Highway Patrol got snookered by the hate group the Southern Poverty Law Center. Not just the MOHP, but the Governor Jay Nixon.

On February 20, 2009, the State of Missouri, via its Department of Public Safety, issued what was called “MIAC Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement.” In this report, people who supported Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and yours truly were referenced as being connected to potentially dangerous “militia members.” But the inference did not stop there. People of conservative ideology were also identified in the State Police report as being potentially dangerous. People who held political opinions opposing abortion, illegal immigration, the New World Order, the North American Union, the Income Tax, the U.N., etc., were profiled in the MIAC report.

Interestingly enough, no left-leaning political ideologies were identified. No Islamic extremists. No environmental extremists. Only people holding “conservative” or “right-wing” philosophies were identified in the MIAC report.

The MIAC report was categorized as “Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive,” meaning the report was intended for law enforcement personnel only. Fortunately, an unidentified (for obvious reasons) Missouri law enforcement officer, who was extremely disturbed by this report, sent a copy to nationally syndicated radio talk show host Alex Jones. Of course, Jones immediately “blew the whistle” on the story. This was on March 11.

Now you know one of the reasons they hate Alex Jones so much. The difference now is while the media followed Jones and brought it out, now it would get the Hunter Xiden treatment. Shhhhhhh.

If we can continue to probe the details of the MIAC report, I am absolutely convinced we will find that this report actually originates with Morris Dees and his ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center. And if my hunch (a very educated hunch, I might add) is correct, it means that the DHS and various State police agencies around the country are allowing a left-wing special interest group to use them to harass, intimidate, and profile people with conservative political opinions.

But now the left-wing special interest group going after conservatives is…the weaponized FIB.

Project Veritas was contacted by a inside whistle blower who spilled the beans on what the FIB now considers “Militia Violent Extremists” or MVEs.

These include such fringe thoughts as the Second Amendment, that shooting unarmed women by a cop who previously left his duty weapon in a bathroom on the toilet is a bad thing. Ashli Babbit. That shooting an unarmed woman holding her baby, Vickie Weaver, is a evil thing. That the flag Betsy Ross labored over is “extremist”. Threepers and Oathkeepers who have broken no laws and have yet to burn down a city are also vilified. As is the Gadsden flag, the Gonzales Battle flag, probably the modern American flag, dang with the FIB probably the only flag they don’t consider “extremist” is the Antifa flag or the Chinese Communist Party flag. While Antifa has burned down cities and decimated neighborhoods they aren’t a violent extremist group according to the FIB. Odd that, isn’t it?

Also considered threats are any mention of the Second Amendment, of course, and the Liberty Tree, and Revolutionary war soldier pictures. No word if the serfs will be allowed to watch “The Patriot” next Independence Day. No word if we’re allowed to use the phrase “Independence Day” yet either.

I’m happy to report however, that Senator Ted Cruz bitch slapped that useless as tits on a boar hog Chris Wray.

“Also on this list is the Gadsden flag as a symbol of violent extremism,” Cruz continued. “Now, the State of Virginia has a license plate with the Gadsden flag — as do many other states,” he said. “I think people would be astonished to find that having that license plate, the FBI indicates that you’re a violent extremist.”

“As a Texan, I was particularly struck,” Cruz added, “by the Gonzales Battle Flag — ‘Come and Take It’ — as indicative of being a violent extremist militia. Well, I will self-report right now that every day in the Senate I wear my boots that have the Gonzalez Battle Flag on the back,” Cruz declared, smacking his boot on the dais.

“Director Wray, what are y’all doing?” Cruz asked. “This makes no sense.”

Cruz ended his statement by asking Wray whether he agreed with the FBI guidance highlighting patriotic, historic American symbols with extremist violence, but the FBI Director could only offer that he wasn’t “familiar” with the document.

Truth be told Sen. Cruz probably should have thrown the boot at Wray, but considering what those boots probably cost I completely forgive him.

And just like Nixon and the head of the Missouri Highway Patrol, useless Wray said he wasn’t familiar with the document. Probably spending so much time looking for Hunter Xiden’s missing laptop no doubt.

And just like was pointed out in the column about the MIAC report:

But Cruz again took Wray to task, pointing out that the FBI chose not to “include things like Antifa… things like Black Lives Matter” and instead “identify patriotic Americans as suspect.”

I have two solutions to this predicament. Wray needs to be fired, at once and the FIB needs to be disbanded. The funds saved could be better used by local law enforcement to hire and train officers, and heaven knows the taxpayers could use the break. We have millions of illegal aliens to support that the FIB is not the least concerned about. But one thing is clear, the FIB is threatened by Patriotic Women, poor Betsy!

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An Open Letter to Drew Brees

June 9, 2020 Yitzhak Goldstein

During an interview with Yahoo News, a sports journalist asked Drew Brees his opinion on football players kneeling during the National Anthem. Brees declared love and support for teammates and their fight for racial equality and justice. However, he could never agree with anyone “disrespecting” the flag during the National Anthem. He cited the heroic World War II records of his grandfathers and pays homage to them during the Anthem. Who could find fault with that? Nevertheless, following the interview, Brees’ black teammates and black professional athletes in other sports attacked and savaged him. They called him ignorant, a racist, and next the profanity and threats flew. Brees, an openly devout Christian, then apologized for his insensitive remarks in defense of patriotism and America. He apologized to teammates, the city of New Orleans, the NFL, and the black community at large. Brees rejected President Trump’s support when he came to the QBs defense. Brees now claims it is not about the flag afterall.¹

Legos is pulling its police station and related game sets from the market as if policemen and women who protect and defend the weak, vulnerable, and defenseless are now evil and unacceptable. Taboo. A&E is pulling its most popular television show, Live PD, from the airwaves again, as if anything to do with the police is dirty, filthy, intolerably offensive. This they do in solidarity with an extremist group promoting assassination of police officers, riots and looting, anarchy, overturning Western Society and its Judeo-Christian foundations. This group is Black Lives Matter (BLM). Legos, A&E, and many other corporations are choosing sides against the folks behind the badge who willingly lay their lives on the line every day for their fellow Americans.

Where are the corporate chieftains, business leaders, elected officials, pastors, priests, rabbis, school boards, principals, teachers, and sports figures willing to stand for the truth? What is that truth? Contrary to what BLM claims on its webpage, the white race is not engaged in a war of genocide, with the police its instrument of execution, to exterminate the black race. This is what they preach and believe. Who is pointing this out?

What are you saying Drew, police officers, who never ask what the job pays or count the risks, but only how to protect Americans from the ravenous wolves that prey on them, are the bad guys? Men and women who, instead of being home with their families for birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, who work long hours, weekends, nights, in the heat, cold, rain, and snow, with little sleep and no food to make streets safe for you deserve no respect? That our brothers and sisters killed in the line of duty, whose names are quickly forgotten or never known, deserve no respect? That our family members who fought in wars and served in the military no longer deserve respect? What have millionaires like you done in comparison to make America a better and safer place, throw a piece of leather to other millionaires on Sundays? Think of the little kids who wear your jersey and hang your poster on their bedroom walls. You are telling them to side with those who spit on the flag and the men and women who sacrifice so much to keep their little lives safe.

Today, now more than ever, leaders like you should be standing up for America but instead abdicate that responsibility. Is it because you have too much to lose, fame, fortune, and career? Or, do you hope someone else will take your place sparing you from putting it on the line? When you count the cost and say no, you abandon us behind enemy lines. When you surrender without a fight, the time comes when there is nothing left for which to fight.

Black as well as white have died for the flag. In apologizing for your patriotism, you surrender that flag to those who hate all for which it stands. Once you kneel before its enemies, as you have, that is where they will keep you. You must continue kneeling to prove you are not a racist but no proof will ever be enough. Do you believe they respect you for turning your back on devoutly held beliefs? In capitulating, you have lost your dignity, respect, and moral authority to speak for the truth. Kids long for adults who are men and women of character possessing the strength of their convictions. Adults who never waver regardless of how sharp the arrows fired at them. You cannot get back what you surrender.

Yes, there is a price for standing your ground. We average Americans who stand up for the truth pay it every day in our work and in our lives. This country is worth it. How sad, in spite of all the blessings playing in the NFL, for you this nation does not merit the same affection. The choices we make when those choices are difficult define who and what we are. You have made your choice.