NO MORE BULL: America, Please Phone Home
A LAYMAN'S VIEW OF "THE STATE OF THE UNION"
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Is it kosher to be a realist?
Never mind, for the moment, why my opinions are so “opinionated,” or whether I have my own ‘skeletons.’ “The world is full of fools,” someone once said, “and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.” The question really is, who’s the biggest Pharisee, the biggest hypocrite?
The people who don’t want to hear pessimistic warnings are the first ones who want to know if there’s a traffic cop ahead (they may even have their own radar detector). When someone flashes his headlights at you, do you immediately accuse him of INTOLERANCE? Do you try to psychoanalyze the guy? No! So, who’s the biggest hypocrite?
Paradoxically, the people who say that public servants “are ALL alike,” and, “they’re ALL crooks” are the same people who want politicians to micromanage our local affairs and personal lives more and more from far-off
The people who were first in line to promote the sexual “revolution” of the 60’s and 70’s are the same people who are now acting like fascists and “thought police” on selected issues.
The people who have always condemned our “Euro-centric”
The people who call the wolf ENDANGERED are the same people who call an unborn child UNWANTED.
The people who call “barbaric” the painless execution of a perpetrator of a cruel murder are the same people who think the dismemberment of an unborn baby is of the realm of “progressivism” and “enlightenment.”
The people who are always crying “Separation of church and state” are the same people who try to impose the agenda of THEIR religion in the name of “Mother Nature.”
The same people who favor billions of dollars spent on light rail, etc. (public transportation) are the same people who won’t even let their kids ride home on the public school bus, circling the school with minivans.
The people who screamed about “book burners” are the same people who want to ban “Huckleberry Finn” and any book even slightly critical of Darwinism.
The people who send others to “sensitivity classes” are the same people who wouldn’t hesitate to tell a young biology student, “When are you going to quit believing that crap your parents teach you?”
The very same people who took the Reds away from Marge Schott and sent John Rocker to psychiatric treatment — for their “insensitive speech” — are the people who just yawn when Ted Turner says Christianity is a religion for weak people or when Alec Baldwin says we should attack a congressman’s family physically for the way he does his job. In that case, it was just a joke (maybe even a funny one).
The people who want “federal aid” for anti-Christian “art” are the same people who think a kid drawing a picture of Christ in a public school is guilty of “hatred” or “harassment.”
The people who lampooned Ozzie and Harriet and the “Norman Rockwell
The people who complain when a politician mentions God’s name are the same people who lobby for “Deep Ecology” in the name of THEIR god, Mother Earth, “the Great Mother of the gods.”
The people who used the “RIGHT TO PRIVACY” to institutionalize abortion are the same people who claim OSHA can inspect your home if you work out of your home.
The same people who teach that the human spirit and human nature are basically good are the same people who teach that Man is nothing but an animal and is free to behave like an animal if he so desires.
The people who used to ridicule a marriage license as nothing more than a “piece of paper” are the same ones who now hail it as the Holy Grail for gays!
The very same people who had a habit of saying, “Stay out of my bedroom” are now trying to impose external rules on private organizations such as the Boy Scouts and Christian schools and camps. Excuse me? I DON’T THINK SO!
Webster says that one of the definitions of the word “bull” is “a ludicrous or self-contradictory statement, nonsense”! These promulgators of psychobabble teach that religion is a form of mental illness, and yet these very same people hold to all kinds of ludicrous and self-contradicting hogwash.
The only thing these people are consistent about is that while they are selective as to which of the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution they believe in, they’re also selective as to which of the Ten Commandments they observe. When living in LaLa land, words are subjective, so the word “unconstitutional” never matters unless their agenda can be promoted by its invocation. And any attempt to define “sin” equates with hatred. This false premise I reject utterly, and say, “Beware”: such outlandish split personalities are not fit to hold offices of public power.
When they speak of “tolerance,” what they really mean to say is, “YOU must tolerate US — OR ELSE!” So, who are the biggest hypocrites, and why do we bow to their every wish? And, is it kosher to be a pessimist? Yes, unless you LIKE having your head in the sand.
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“Your writing is terrific.” - Stephen Stone, editor of www.RenewAmerica.us. “The unveiling of a masterpiece. A classic worth reading over and over.” - The author Although Martin Luther King, Jr. had a well-written “dream,” OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ‘HAD A DREAM,’ TOO, says the author, and “It’s time to get back to the ‘ROOTS’ of our American culture. Pop culture, mainstream journalists, and academia drag our Heritage through the gutter and mock it, and then they wonder why one billion Muslims in the world don’t “like” us! “Someday we’ll probably laugh about all this,” says Hagar the Horrible, every time he’s surrounded by hundreds of swordwielding foes. But this is real life, and it’s more like WWIII, and if we think there’s a silver bullet or a purple pill for every problem; perhaps we just don’t understand the “situation”! The post-911 situation was analyzed in a weekly column by the author for the Alan Keyes website. The book in your hands is a compilation of his first 29 columns, written over a span of time roughly equivalent to the second half-year of the Iraqi War. This benchmark time period, from the football season of “ought-3” (sex-for-high schoolrecruits scandals) through the Spanish bombings and election, to the Iraqi P.O.W. abuse scandal of “ought-4,” both of which could have long-term consequences. Our two oceans no longer can protect us, and as the Boys Scouts say, it’s best to “Be prepared.” The American Revolution, the Great Experiment that was the DREAM (unlike the French Revolution that was based more on philosophy and man-made laws;) spoke more of Truth, “self-evident Truths,” and it was focused on Natural Law, “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” Once upon a time this was “common knowledge,” and in his farewell address to the United Nations, President Reagan spoke of DREAMS, and “vision,” and a “Higher Law.” In mountaineering, there’s a commonly heard truth: “Gravity isn’t just a ‘good idea; it’s the Law!” The permanent nature of such laws gave the Founders hope that their DREAM would be as permanent as the Rock upon which they built their Republic. But have we forgotten their DREAM? It has been said that the further back into history one can see, the further into the future one can see. The “establishment” educators have essentially abolished history, by putting it under the umbrella of “social science” (which is really one part “art” and one part propaganda). What can we do? In one sense, this is a book about wasted opportunities, both national and personal: “Living a life of going to do, and dying with nothing done.” Don’t let that be your epitaph, says the author. The American DREAM still breathes, but it’s time for the CPR. Try to figure out, if you will, what you can do about the “situation” as you read THE BOOK!
About the Author
The author is a columnist for www.RenewAmerica.us. He is semi-retired and divides his time between
The author can relate to the words of Ferrar Fenton: “I was in ‘53 a young student in course of education for an entirely literary career, but with a wider basis of study than is usual...Indeed, I hold my [business] experience to have been my most important field of education...Had I, on the other hand, lived the life of a Collegiate Professor, shut up in the narrow walls of a library, I . . should have had my knowledge of mankind so confined to glancing through a ‘peep-hole’ as to make me totally unfit for [my life’s work].” – the introduction to The Fenton Bible
As an avid outdoorsman, he chose an outdoor career. Employees of his occupation used to be called tree surgeons, then “urban phytonarians,” and finally, “arborists.” Climbing has been a major part of his life ever since climbing farm silos at age 5 or 6, and to celebrate his 60th birthday, he climbed the