June 3, 2009
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when a person couldn't defend himself from a burglar in his own home for the burglar could sue for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and
I'm A Victim
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
April 1, 2009
Am I Really That Unhappy?
Americans are being told day after day that we are in the midst of a crisis. Catastrophe looms in our near future unless we agree to some nebulous “change”. Being the idiot that I am I started to think, ''What are we so unhappy about?'' Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time, and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year? Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter? I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough.
Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all, and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firemen will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers.
How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that is what has so many folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the Lord that we live here.
I know, I know. What about the ex-President who took us into war and had no plan to get us out? Is this the same ex-President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The ex-President that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of so many Americans? Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds, it leads; and they specialize in bad news .Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about "how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way"...Insane! If things are so bad, why do we have to put up fences to keep people out instead of to keep them in?
Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.
We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several times a day or at least be thankful and appreciative. And THAT is the truth.
Hate Speech: A Threat to Truth
In the United States there is no law on the books saying that it is forbidden for its citizens to tell the truth; not in as many words that is. Yet “hate speech” is a term for that form of verbal communication which is increasingly being forbidden and punished by law. It is speech that someone deems to be intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, language ability, moral or political views, socieconomic class, occupation or appearance, such as height, weight, hair color, mental capacity and any other distinction or liability. (There’s a catch all phrase if I’ve ever heard one.) In other words, if you think that someone looks down on you in anyway and somehow publicly communicates that disdain, you can have him arrested and jailed in the United States of America! The term encompasses written as well as oral communication and some forms of behaviors in a public setting. May I remind these subversives of Article 1 of our Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Various institutions in the United States and Europe began developing codes to limit our constitutionally protected freedom of speech and punish hate speech in the 1990s, on the grounds that such speech amounts to discrimination. Thus, such codes prohibit words or phrases deemed to express, either deliberately or unknowingly, hatred or contempt towards a group of people, based on factors such as their ethnic, cultural, religious or sexual identity, or with reference to physical health or mental health. Preachers are being arrested and sued for preaching Gods word straight from the Bible in their own pulpits. There has been an increase of prohibition of terms regarded as "hate speech" based on socio-economic class in the United States. But for many North Americans, hate speech has become unacceptable (at least in public) and downright immoral. Isn’t it the height of irony that the mere act of labeling immorality via the spoken word, is in and of itself now deemed to be immoral? In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice states:
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
My fellow adherents of Constitutional freedom, we are living in that world. It is taboo to use certain words or discuss certain subjects that the “Thought Police” fear may be opprobrious. In some contexts it may also be offensive and truculent to challenge the rights of individuals based on any or all of the above criteria. Where does it end? It ends at the same place that it began. Anyone who rejects what others think or say about them can cry “hate speech” and have the truth teller arrested. Why do I say “Truth Teller?” Because if an individual makes statements saying that he thinks all “Vulgarians” are lazy, that is to be considered a true statement because he does consider that to be true. Remember we are talking about expressing through communication what you consider to be factual. This is merely one small step from hate “thought”. George Orwell in his prescient classic 1984 wrote:
The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.
(George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1)
You say “That would never happen. You can’t be punished for what you are thinking.” Let me point out that there are and long have been, varying degrees of murder ranging from involuntary manslaughter to “premeditated murder”. To premeditate means to ruminate about something before you actually engage in the activity. For example, if you kill me as I am walking down the street, for no apparent reason, you will be charged with murder. If you kill a homosexual and law enforcement can present evidence that you believe that homosexuality is deviant, perverted behavior, as the Bible says:
“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” Romans 1:27
you will be charged with the more serious offense of “hate crime”. In other words, the homosexual’s life has more value than mine does in the eyes of the law. Why? I suppose it’s because you killed me out of simple disdain, but you killed him because you hated him. Doesn’t any attitude towards a human being that causes you to kill them connote hate on your part? And why is hate sentiment a more menacing indicator of culpability than robbery, or sexual deviance? I don’t think that the deceased has a whole lot of regard for exactly why he was killed. It’s the death of our Constitutional freedoms that’s the real carnage here. And THAT is the truth.
February 16, 2009:
It Has Begun!
One sure way to know that I am on the right track as I uncover the truth is when the purveyors of lies and ignorance begin their utterly predictable Ad Hominem attacks. My guestbook has been attracting the feckless opposition lately like moths to a flame. Remaining true to their MO, their diatribes consist of personal attacks on your humble author and are utterly bereft of facts. Showing their command of the English language they have labeled me a “Nut Job”, “Whacko”, and “Ding Bat”! Ah, the value of a college education! Taking a page right out of the book “Rules for Radicals” these “scholars” have set their sights on me. These followers of trendsetting traitor Saul Alinsky seem to like his Rule #5:
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage”.
I must admit that I find their methodology to be extremely amusing. If I didn’t possess such a great sense of humor, I would never have been able to intelligently construct an argument against the laughingly absurd theory of Evolution. I know that I have been fearfully and wonderfully made by a loving, omniscient God. They think that we all have come from a rock! According to them the microscopic first manifestation of life on Earth (they don’t know where Earth came from) crawled out of the primordial ooze and sunned itself on a rock and eventually became a cat, a jellyfish and a human.(???) They cannot, and never will be able to prove this, and yet they accuse me of, as one respondent stated, “Ignoring the facts that show that you’re wrong”. They of course did not cite any of these supposed facts simply because there are none!
Another frequenter of the website said that I appeal to “PWT (Poor, White Trash)”. These are the same people who tell us how tolerant they are and that they love everybody. There is no courage required, nor sacrifice made, when one refuses to think for himself and instead ignorantly follows the blissfully unaware. I realized long ago that in this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble.
I will leave you, my faithful truth seekers, with this appropriate thought:
“Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis”.
Truth, my friends, is the only safe ground to stand upon. And THAT is the truth.
February 02, 2009:
Rules are for Fools (or so it seems.)
I can remember when I was in good old
We have a situation in these
President Obama has begun to nominate people for his cabinet and submit their names to Congress for approval. It seems that several of them didn’t pay federal income taxes that the rules said that they had to pay. So what happens to people who get caught not paying their income taxes? Right, they say “Oops, I forgot” and everything is all right. What do you think would happen if Joe Shmoe from Trifitedsville gave that answer when he was caught red handed? The IRS would throw the book at him and probably get a hernia doing so. I guess that rules are only for fools. All of you fools who voted for Obama are going to get just what you asked for. A land where the law means nothing. And THAT is the truth.
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