Thursday, March 17, 2011
In This Garden
In this garden the individual has been assaulted and touted as archaic. In his place a construct of a failed, yet tenacious, political theory has been put forward as the new man. This new man is not really one man but the collection of all men, thought of and treated as one man. This new concept is genderless as, according to the theory, we are all equal in every way, there is no need to distinguish between the genders. One world, one man, one law. Everyone is equal. No one is above another. And true to form, we will all crawl on our bellies before the one law to receive our equal due. And it will not be sufficient. There will be rebellion. For men are not ants, nor should they be made to be ants.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
To Be an American
I think this nation is in great peril. I know, I'm not stating anything new. We've been in great peril before, and never in as much peril as the years 1929 to 1945. We climbed out stronger than ever but we had to fight a World War to get through it. Some fourteen years later I was born.
The first two decades of my life saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Senator Bobby Kennedy, Man's first steps on the Moon, the election and re-election of President Nixon, the first U.S. President to resign the office in disgrace, followed by the uneventful presidencies of Ford and Carter. All through this I was somewhat aware of the Cold War, though I didn't fully understand it until I began the first year of my third decade at RAF Lakenheath, England, where our only mission was to generate nuclear laden F-111F's to send east toward the Soviet Union to pave the way for the B-52's who would follow after us. Living in this world is serious business after all.
With Ronald Reagan at the helm we, I mean all us Americans, defeated the Soviet Union without firing a shot, though the Soviets didn't actually fold until after George Bush's victory over Iraq's invasion and criminal occupation of Kuwait. I don't know if you noticed it or not but, after that show of superior American arms over Soviet trained and equipped Iraqi arms, I figure the Soviets finally threw in the towel, though I have read elsewhere the failed Soviet economy is what finally broke the Communist Party's hold on power. Though it happened on Bush's watch, Reagan set it up.
Life under William Clinton was nowhere as exciting as it is today, yet it wasn't exactly boring. Of course, he was the President that signed into law an ineffective "Assault Weapons Ban" that never really lived up to its intended purposes, though some may disagree with that. At the time I was in the Air Force and had my mind on other things and really didn't study the subject much. In fact, I even made fun of one of my buddies who owned an Uzi, saying "the last time you went hunting you killed three deer and wounded forty-two." We all laughed about it in good fun and forgot about it. I'm a bit older and wiser now and see how a ban like that can turn into something no one wants or ever intended, even those who originally supported it in the first place. Anyway, moving on I never faulted Slick Willie's penchant for the ladies though politically I opposed him.
George Bush the Second's presidency started off well enough then came September 11th, 2001. Then Afghanistan. Then Iraq. Then Bush's second term. Then what...?
The Betrayal. The open and no longer cleverly veiled aims of politically left statists in this country. The outright denial of the first principles that made it possible for us, this nation, to survive the perils of the Depression and then World War Two followed by the Cold War. We have not only been steered onto the road to socialism but the accelerator is stuck down with a brick named Obama and lashed down with bits of rope whose names are Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi, Napolitano, Holder, Traver and others who would make our nation into something less than our aspirations. Rush Limbaugh calls them the Blame America First crowd.
I knew we were in trouble when former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with a straight face mind you, said of ObamaCare, "We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it." I have never heard a politician, or anyone for that matter, say anything as stupid as that. This is but one small sample of the mindset of our leftist opponents. If you get your information from many sources as I do you know what I mean. For the reader who accidentally stumbled here during the CNN, CBS, ABC or MSNBC news commercial break you probably won't have a clue to what I mean.
The most puzzling thing of all is the number of my fellow Americans who support the very political ideals that are so contrary to what it means, or meant, to be an American. Unbelieveable.
The first two decades of my life saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Senator Bobby Kennedy, Man's first steps on the Moon, the election and re-election of President Nixon, the first U.S. President to resign the office in disgrace, followed by the uneventful presidencies of Ford and Carter. All through this I was somewhat aware of the Cold War, though I didn't fully understand it until I began the first year of my third decade at RAF Lakenheath, England, where our only mission was to generate nuclear laden F-111F's to send east toward the Soviet Union to pave the way for the B-52's who would follow after us. Living in this world is serious business after all.
With Ronald Reagan at the helm we, I mean all us Americans, defeated the Soviet Union without firing a shot, though the Soviets didn't actually fold until after George Bush's victory over Iraq's invasion and criminal occupation of Kuwait. I don't know if you noticed it or not but, after that show of superior American arms over Soviet trained and equipped Iraqi arms, I figure the Soviets finally threw in the towel, though I have read elsewhere the failed Soviet economy is what finally broke the Communist Party's hold on power. Though it happened on Bush's watch, Reagan set it up.
Life under William Clinton was nowhere as exciting as it is today, yet it wasn't exactly boring. Of course, he was the President that signed into law an ineffective "Assault Weapons Ban" that never really lived up to its intended purposes, though some may disagree with that. At the time I was in the Air Force and had my mind on other things and really didn't study the subject much. In fact, I even made fun of one of my buddies who owned an Uzi, saying "the last time you went hunting you killed three deer and wounded forty-two." We all laughed about it in good fun and forgot about it. I'm a bit older and wiser now and see how a ban like that can turn into something no one wants or ever intended, even those who originally supported it in the first place. Anyway, moving on I never faulted Slick Willie's penchant for the ladies though politically I opposed him.
George Bush the Second's presidency started off well enough then came September 11th, 2001. Then Afghanistan. Then Iraq. Then Bush's second term. Then what...?
The Betrayal. The open and no longer cleverly veiled aims of politically left statists in this country. The outright denial of the first principles that made it possible for us, this nation, to survive the perils of the Depression and then World War Two followed by the Cold War. We have not only been steered onto the road to socialism but the accelerator is stuck down with a brick named Obama and lashed down with bits of rope whose names are Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi, Napolitano, Holder, Traver and others who would make our nation into something less than our aspirations. Rush Limbaugh calls them the Blame America First crowd.
I knew we were in trouble when former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with a straight face mind you, said of ObamaCare, "We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it." I have never heard a politician, or anyone for that matter, say anything as stupid as that. This is but one small sample of the mindset of our leftist opponents. If you get your information from many sources as I do you know what I mean. For the reader who accidentally stumbled here during the CNN, CBS, ABC or MSNBC news commercial break you probably won't have a clue to what I mean.
The most puzzling thing of all is the number of my fellow Americans who support the very political ideals that are so contrary to what it means, or meant, to be an American. Unbelieveable.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Billions and Billions?
I read an interesting article today, you may read it here, stating that scientists have arrived at an estimated 50 billion planets exist within our own Milky Way Galaxy and that as many as 500 million of those planets could harbor life. Read the article for more details, but what I got to thinking about after reading the article was life in general and exactly what is life and what is it's purpose? At age 52, I thought I may as well think about these things now rather than later. I might not have later.
Is not the purpose of life to live? At least long enough to reproduce and then after that who cares if you live much longer? And if it is something else, what is it? In my struggle in life I do what I must do to trade my skill set for money which I then transform into paid bills, shelter and food and clothing and the occasional luxury item. Basically, life is just a struggle to survive, but you know there exists somewhere out there a personal time limit and everyone's got one.
Life is short but only for those who are not suffering. For the suffering there is no life short enough, for a day with suffering is like a lifetime of suffering every twenty-four hours. But we are getting away from the main point.
If in this galaxy alone there are 50 billion planets and of those 500 million could support life, why do the mere mortal inhabitants of this rock think we're so special?
Let's pick one of those planets and ask some questions, shall we?
Q:You, on Omicron Six, do you have religion?
A:Oh yeah! It's the opiate of the people don't you know.
Q:Mmm.. we've heard that somewhere before. Well then, on Omicron Six is there a One World Government over what used to be hundreds of individual sovereign nations sort of like our United Nations does in keeping the peace between civil nations?
A:Oh...Is that what you use that for? We thought...uh, never mind what we thought. Enough of the questions already. We only came here to smoke a doobie with you and chill around the campfire and eat munchies. You guys are so uptight. Anyone have any San Gria?
I guess we are not so special after all. What do you think?
Is not the purpose of life to live? At least long enough to reproduce and then after that who cares if you live much longer? And if it is something else, what is it? In my struggle in life I do what I must do to trade my skill set for money which I then transform into paid bills, shelter and food and clothing and the occasional luxury item. Basically, life is just a struggle to survive, but you know there exists somewhere out there a personal time limit and everyone's got one.
Life is short but only for those who are not suffering. For the suffering there is no life short enough, for a day with suffering is like a lifetime of suffering every twenty-four hours. But we are getting away from the main point.
If in this galaxy alone there are 50 billion planets and of those 500 million could support life, why do the mere mortal inhabitants of this rock think we're so special?
Let's pick one of those planets and ask some questions, shall we?
Q:You, on Omicron Six, do you have religion?
A:Oh yeah! It's the opiate of the people don't you know.
Q:Mmm.. we've heard that somewhere before. Well then, on Omicron Six is there a One World Government over what used to be hundreds of individual sovereign nations sort of like our United Nations does in keeping the peace between civil nations?
A:Oh...Is that what you use that for? We thought...uh, never mind what we thought. Enough of the questions already. We only came here to smoke a doobie with you and chill around the campfire and eat munchies. You guys are so uptight. Anyone have any San Gria?
I guess we are not so special after all. What do you think?
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