I'm not much of a traveller. I lived in England for a couple of years, 1979 to 1981, courtesy of the United States Air Force. Many years after that I spent some time in Saudi Arabia doing my part to convince the Iraqi Army occupying Kuwait they should leave. I spent a good deal of time living in Texas, about nine years all together, two years in Lubbock and seven years in Del Rio. Since I retired in 1995, I've lived in the first home I ever bought and don't intend of moving. No sir, I'm not much of a traveller.
Lately, on Saturday nights, I pick up a friend and we go to a diner in a nearby town and spend time eating and talking with other friends who meet us there. Everything from amateur radio, we are all ham radio hobbyists, to politics, guns and whatever gets talked about. Basically a little of everything. On the last outing I was thinking that it was a waste to go every Saturday. I thought I should arrange and plan for some sort of outing or quick overnight trip or something for my wife and I to do at least once a month. I know it would break up the tendency of me to get bored during those Saturday night outings with the fellas and I sure would like to do something different for a change.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
A musing of late....
When my father died I was sad. And for a long while after I dreamed that he wasn't dead but somehow it was a mistake. Even though during my dreaming I knew he was cremated, he was at home sitting in his chair, just looking at me, talking with me and the others. I kept thinking how could he be there and cremated too? After I woke up I still wondered if he would answer the phone if I called.
And sometimes I would catch myself wanting to call him and see what he thinks about whatever it was I was bothered by at the time. And now, seven years have passed since he died. I no longer dream the strange dreams and catch myself almost picking up the phone. I have settled in my mind that I am alone in the world and able to cope without him. Which is what he always wanted for me.
And sometimes I would catch myself wanting to call him and see what he thinks about whatever it was I was bothered by at the time. And now, seven years have passed since he died. I no longer dream the strange dreams and catch myself almost picking up the phone. I have settled in my mind that I am alone in the world and able to cope without him. Which is what he always wanted for me.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Absalom Proclaims
"If only I were appointed judge in the land!" proclaimed one young man many centuries ago. His name is Absalom and his father, the King of Judah and Israel, is David. Absalom conspired to usurp his father's kingship and in the end was killed by the king's men.
Today, we have many Absalom's not just asking us to appoint them as a judge in the land, but taking the judgeship as a matter of right. What right, you ask? No right at all. I speak of a handful of United States Senators and others who, by the fact of their longevity in the Congress, have assumed the right of judge and jury over us all. I speak mainly of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Diane Feinstein and perhaps John McCain, but there are others that belong in this group.
You can see them on the television pontificating about a many and sundry issues. Schumer and Feinstein are lately hawking gun control. And let's not forget Feinstein's sudden revulsion of CIA spying. McCain wants us all to believe he's God's gift to foreign policy. And to think I once voted for him. Not that our current president couldn't use some help. John Kerry included. But these folks are just folks. There is nothing special about any of them. But there is one thing they all have in common.
That thing they all have in common is the self perception that they are somehow super qualified, endowed by some mysterious fluid, kept from the rest of us don't you know, they have imbibed making them experts about many things of which they actually know very little.
Little Harry Reid is just plain offensive to anyone with a mind as is Nancy Pelosi. Yet these two have pontificated more nonsense than all the others combined. And get this. They are what qualify to be the Congressional Leaderhip of the Democrats. Isn't that a hoot?
Today, we have many Absalom's not just asking us to appoint them as a judge in the land, but taking the judgeship as a matter of right. What right, you ask? No right at all. I speak of a handful of United States Senators and others who, by the fact of their longevity in the Congress, have assumed the right of judge and jury over us all. I speak mainly of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Diane Feinstein and perhaps John McCain, but there are others that belong in this group.
You can see them on the television pontificating about a many and sundry issues. Schumer and Feinstein are lately hawking gun control. And let's not forget Feinstein's sudden revulsion of CIA spying. McCain wants us all to believe he's God's gift to foreign policy. And to think I once voted for him. Not that our current president couldn't use some help. John Kerry included. But these folks are just folks. There is nothing special about any of them. But there is one thing they all have in common.
That thing they all have in common is the self perception that they are somehow super qualified, endowed by some mysterious fluid, kept from the rest of us don't you know, they have imbibed making them experts about many things of which they actually know very little.
Little Harry Reid is just plain offensive to anyone with a mind as is Nancy Pelosi. Yet these two have pontificated more nonsense than all the others combined. And get this. They are what qualify to be the Congressional Leaderhip of the Democrats. Isn't that a hoot?
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.
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