I want to tie a few loose ends together on a variety of issues, beginning with one of my favorite video moments. It’s Fred Thompson’s reply to Michael Moore. The details aren’t important but this sort of moxie is why I’m beginning to like Fred very, very much.
Congratulations to Congressman Pete King [R-NY] for being one of the few politicians who puts our national security first. His “John Doe” legislation, protecting concerned citizens from frivolous law suits by would-be evil doers, has triumphed despite vigorous Democrat efforts to support the enemies of our country.
Hey, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama and the rest of those anti-American Democrats, as well as the RINOs also conspiring against this nation…tell this guy he’s wasting his time and not doing any good. Somehow, I don’t think he’d even hear you. He’s too busy doing his job. Why aren’t you?
I find it interesting to read that Newt Gingrich is saying Hillary and Barack are going to be the Democrat ticket in ‘08. I’ve been saying that for the past six months. It’s the media’s dream ticket and, unless Republicans return to their Conservative roots, and fast, these two dangerous delusionists will likely be our next President and Vice President. Both of them clearly understand the three “F’s” that political winners have known since the beginning of time: The public forgives, forgets and is fickle. Just remember, a vote for Obama is a vote for Osama and if you elect Hillary Mrs. Clinton, you have to take the big dummy, too!
Now, I’m beginning to read comparisons between Barack Hussein and John F. Kennedy. Aside from both being media creations and the fact that neither has, or had, the foggiest notion of what they’re doing, I see mostly differences. Kennedy was a great speaker but didn’t put his foot in his mouth every time he opened it. Obama sometimes even leaves his shoes on when performing this feat. Being Catholic is not the same as being Black, even in America. Fitzgerald, as a middle name, resonated well with Irish and Catholic voters; the name ‘Hussein’ still makes me paranoid when I think of all those sand people out there trying to kill us. Kennedy believed in victory, not surrender. He believed in capitalism and American greatness, not socialism and American villainy. JFK had great hair. BHO has things sticking out that look like you could grip, twist and unscrew the head. I wonder if there’s anything in there. Maybe Hillary knows.
Speaking of Hillary, if I hear one more word about her cleavage, I think I’ll lose what’s left of my lunch. Would someone, please, explain to me what a pair of sagging sweat glands has to do with running the country? Aliens are stampeding across our boarders, the greatest economy in world history is poised to start slipping, taxes are too high, leadership too low, half the world is trying to blow us away…and all people can talk about is the cleavage of a woman who has all the physical appeal of the Pillsbury Doughboy?
We’ve got problems my friend, right here in River City. Now that’s not cool, which rhymes with pool, and that sounds like fool!
R.S.F.
Born Too Late
I read an article the other day which began with a guy reminiscing about “the good old days”. The first thing that became painfully apparent was that I’m getting older faster than I care to realize. The next thing in evidence was, the cherished days to which he referred are relative and, eventually, these will be “the good old days” for some other poor dolt of limited perspective. Anyway, he wrote:
Da-a-a-a…no, I don’t. Back in my day, I remember carrying a portable phonograph (which weighed about 20 or 30 pounds) in one hand and a box of records weighing twice as much in the other. I usually made two trips. The distance I could cover was about three blocks and if I needed to make a phone call along the way, I stopped at a phone booth! If I had to hear music as I walked, I sang (an act which nurtured within me an almost religious respect for silence).
The point here is not how many gray hairs I may have left in my head or that some kid may have it easier than I did. Rather, once viewed in a broader life context, this sort of limited frame of reference loses any humor and reveals the potential dangers of not being informed about events that occurred before “your day”. With a lack of curiosity, or at least a nodding acquaintance with recent history, how can anyone be expected to realize that we’re reliving a 21st Century version of Europe 1936, and everything that portends? How can one so uninformed grasp the failed policies of appeasement and isolationism, the humiliation of defeat or the glory of victory? Some schools don’t even keep score at the local baseball game anymore, for fear of injuring some kid’s self esteem. How can that kid understand winning? How can he or she understand the fatal flaws inherent with socialized programs or the disasters narrowly avoided as Communism overspread the world during the cold war? How do these kids comprehend the Holocaust, the brutality of Hitler or the plight of Britain under Chamberlain? It’s all just something in the history books, in many cases rewritten to address political agendas; in most cases simply left unread. Where’s the curiosity?
When the answer to a question is unknown, the lamest response I’ve ever heard is, “Gee, that was before I was born”. You hear it on quiz shows and man-on-the-street interviews, but it’s a specific generational attitude encountered nearly everywhere. It seems to me, I know more about things that happened before I was born that after! Those with no excuse at all are individuals who have experienced significant historical events, know their weaknesses and witnessed their failures. In some cases, they’re the same people who legislated them into existence, yet still gripe about them. They stand up in Congress or preach on a street corner, year after year, whining and moaning about the same old ills, instead of correcting them before they develop into major maladies.
Until our newer generations develop an interest in what was, until those with historical savvy step up and apply it to what will be, until everyone pulls together and places country above self, America will continue her decline. Make no mistake, this nation is tearing itself apart. What freedoms are not being relinquished are being legislated away and as we get weaker, the terrorists get stronger. Now, they are playing with nuclear weaponry that didn’t exist in 1936. That makes the Islamo-Nazis more dangerous than the Nazis of the Third Reich. They have mastered the classic strategy of divide and conquer. A few ragtag fanatics, with a handful of explosives, have already managed to hijack many of our nation’s leaders and divide the greatest nation on earth. What the terrorists do not destroy from without, our Socialist politicians are trying to destroy from within and both enemies at the gates will change our lives forever. Do we simply surrender, as the political elite in Washington propose, or do we dig in our heels for the cause of liberty like the great generations before us?.
It’s not a matter of Democrat or Republican, Right or Left. It’s a matter of right and wrong, good versus evil. As I’ve often said, Americans don’t like to lose. The American people are not tired of war, they are tired of not winning. Those of us who have known the taste of victory had better recall it. Those who do not know it had better discover it, even if they have to venture back to a time before iPods, CDs and records.
R.S.F.