President Obama spoke of "the twisted logic that caused these events" when he spoke of the 2009 rampage that killed 17 in Ft. Hood. He is likely to use similar words today when he memorializes those killed and wounded in the Arizona shootings last week.
But the President has no right to convey such thoughts when he, himself, refuses to enforce immigration laws that he is being paid to enforce and that is his responsibility to enforce under the Constitution, which he swore to uphold when he took office. That failure on his part allows a flood of criminals and terrorists to pour into our country, endangering our safety, and contributing greatly to the ever increasing frequency of criminal violence in our country.
The first thing we ought tell the world is that our laws to protect our lives and our way of life will be enforced...rigidly, vigorously, uncompromisingly.
That is the message the President ought announce today...and begin imposing today. It would be the best way to honor the victims in Arizona.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
ETERNAL ENEMIES
The government...federal/state...has one and only one proper area of concern: Safety. Our individual safety from force. Why? Because individually we do not have the power to do it ourselves. I cannot defend against a foreign nation's attack or organized underworld mayhem. If I could, there would be no need for government. The concept of justice, critical to human survival, is nonexistent in an anarchistic society.
For the purpose of safety, the government may maintain a military, a police force, and courts for the peaceful resolution of disputes. Period. Every other government-assumed authority is improper.
Every other "social" goal, no matter how worthy and meritorious, must properly be achieved through voluntary means: charities, philanthropies, private endowments. A government's use of force against individuals, requiring them to provide and/or pay for such a goal, is a criminal assault and a violation of our individual right and glory to choose the course, content, and character of our lives.
An ancient greeting to a sojourning stranger had it concise and perfect: "If your camel's bags are empty of hate, linger at my tent and be welcome."
For the purpose of safety, the government may maintain a military, a police force, and courts for the peaceful resolution of disputes. Period. Every other government-assumed authority is improper.
Every other "social" goal, no matter how worthy and meritorious, must properly be achieved through voluntary means: charities, philanthropies, private endowments. A government's use of force against individuals, requiring them to provide and/or pay for such a goal, is a criminal assault and a violation of our individual right and glory to choose the course, content, and character of our lives.
An ancient greeting to a sojourning stranger had it concise and perfect: "If your camel's bags are empty of hate, linger at my tent and be welcome."
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
INSIDE OUTSIDE, UPSIDE DOWN, BACKWARDS FORWARDS
Loose-tongued Tucker Carlson said Michael Vick "ought to be executed" for killing those dogs a few years back...for which he served two years in federal penitentiary. "I love dogs," Carlson said. (Carlson subsequently retracted his statement, but said Vick should not be praised for now promoting animal "rights" and contributing money to that cause. "After all," said Carlson, "reformed child molesters are not allowed near children." )
So, I guess all those, including me and likely Carlson, who have ever eaten cow, pig, chicken, turkey, duck, deer, sheep, buffalo, lobster or hundreds of other animals or fish or birds, should be guillotined forthwith, 'cause someone out there loves 'em. We can add to that list those who shoot and kill birds for fun, behead deer for trophies to prove their manhood, torture fish by ensnaring them on hooks made tempting with live worms and then "benevolently" throwing them back in the water. And let's add those (Carlson?) who don't allow their pets to roam free, but keep them caged or tied to the end of a leash in violation of their unalienable right to be free. Goodbye, y'all, Tucker loves 'em.
Carlson said he is a Christian and opposed to capital punishment...I guess for those who only kill us mere humans.
Whew!
So, I guess all those, including me and likely Carlson, who have ever eaten cow, pig, chicken, turkey, duck, deer, sheep, buffalo, lobster or hundreds of other animals or fish or birds, should be guillotined forthwith, 'cause someone out there loves 'em. We can add to that list those who shoot and kill birds for fun, behead deer for trophies to prove their manhood, torture fish by ensnaring them on hooks made tempting with live worms and then "benevolently" throwing them back in the water. And let's add those (Carlson?) who don't allow their pets to roam free, but keep them caged or tied to the end of a leash in violation of their unalienable right to be free. Goodbye, y'all, Tucker loves 'em.
Carlson said he is a Christian and opposed to capital punishment...I guess for those who only kill us mere humans.
Whew!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
PURITY, WHEREFORE ART THOU?
Did you hear about the Navy captain who was relieved of his command of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier for allowing "raunchy, slur-laden" videos to be shown on the ship over a number of years. Raunchy, debauched, licentious. How low can you go! (Don't visualize that.)
Pity the poor sailors exposed to impure, bawdy, stuff like that...their pure virginal hearts stained by devilish sexual thoughts. Where is Mary Poppins when you need her?
(I understand that the videos contained some anti-gay slurs. That is inappropriate. Enough to warrant the captain being relieved of command???? Maybe. But not for the sexual stuff.)
It is reported that during the four years the videos were show, 473 sailors masturbated aboard ship, 1,748 had wet dreams, and a whopping 11,316 recalled having intercourse with their spouses. And 3 actually wondered whether their mothers ever had had sex. Truth be known, with only 11 aircraft carriers in our fleet, America's security hung in the balance.
Some in the Pentagon are now urging that communal showers be banned, together with genital-bulging jockey underwear and swimsuits. We are to become an asexual military, society, nation, world! Can't have the President going to bed at night wondering about the state of his affairs when he should be thinking about affairs of state.
Sure.
Pity the poor sailors exposed to impure, bawdy, stuff like that...their pure virginal hearts stained by devilish sexual thoughts. Where is Mary Poppins when you need her?
(I understand that the videos contained some anti-gay slurs. That is inappropriate. Enough to warrant the captain being relieved of command???? Maybe. But not for the sexual stuff.)
It is reported that during the four years the videos were show, 473 sailors masturbated aboard ship, 1,748 had wet dreams, and a whopping 11,316 recalled having intercourse with their spouses. And 3 actually wondered whether their mothers ever had had sex. Truth be known, with only 11 aircraft carriers in our fleet, America's security hung in the balance.
Some in the Pentagon are now urging that communal showers be banned, together with genital-bulging jockey underwear and swimsuits. We are to become an asexual military, society, nation, world! Can't have the President going to bed at night wondering about the state of his affairs when he should be thinking about affairs of state.
Sure.
INITIAL BENEFICIARY
The "initial beneficiary" (IB) is the first recipient of an action taken. If the action taker is not properly the initial beneficiary, he or she is the "secondary beneficiary" (SB). Secondary not in terms of lesser, but in terms of derivatively...the SB benefits if the IB benefits.
A mother cooks a meal for her infant child. The child is the IB and the mother, fulfilling her responsibility as parent, is the SB. A physician treats a patient. The patient is the IB and the physician, income and reputation, is the SB. Student is IB, teacher SB. Customer IB, salesman SB.
The problem? When the SB action taker improperly casts himself or herself as the IB. Do you believe the car dealer has your interest first? That the politician recognizes and accepts that you, the citizen, are the IB?
Cure? The moment you sense the action taker has replaced you in his mind as the IB, though continuing to talk as if you were, abandon the SOB...sorry, SB...and find an honest one. There are still a few around.
If you don't, complain not.
A mother cooks a meal for her infant child. The child is the IB and the mother, fulfilling her responsibility as parent, is the SB. A physician treats a patient. The patient is the IB and the physician, income and reputation, is the SB. Student is IB, teacher SB. Customer IB, salesman SB.
The problem? When the SB action taker improperly casts himself or herself as the IB. Do you believe the car dealer has your interest first? That the politician recognizes and accepts that you, the citizen, are the IB?
Cure? The moment you sense the action taker has replaced you in his mind as the IB, though continuing to talk as if you were, abandon the SOB...sorry, SB...and find an honest one. There are still a few around.
If you don't, complain not.
Monday, January 3, 2011
WHEN???
When was the last time you took ten seconds to stop and think to yourself:
"I am fortunate, lucky, appreciative, blessed, to have this bed to sleep in, this food to eat, this love to share life with...and most importantly, to be alive"
Not to feel it subconsciously, indirectly, implicitly...but to think it specifically, purposefully, precisely, meaningfully, directly???
When was the last time you taught your children to do the same???
"I am fortunate, lucky, appreciative, blessed, to have this bed to sleep in, this food to eat, this love to share life with...and most importantly, to be alive"
Not to feel it subconsciously, indirectly, implicitly...but to think it specifically, purposefully, precisely, meaningfully, directly???
When was the last time you taught your children to do the same???
Friday, December 3, 2010
I WONDER
Questions I have only recently asked myself for the first time:
What does "In God we trust" mean? And what does it have to do with our money?
Why do we say "I'll be a monkey's uncle" when we are very surprised? Does that mean our brother or sister had sex with a monkey?
What does "e pluribus unum" mean...one for all or all for one...or neither?
Who are "the wretched refuse" the Statue of Liberty beckons?
Which President would rather have been right?
Should you really "act as if there is no tomorrow" when at age 30 you've been proven wrong 10,950 consecutive times?
If happiness is derived from the attainment of values, and life is the greatest and ultimate value, why aren't we all happy?
Weren't we better off when we knew less and spent more time wondering?
What does "In God we trust" mean? And what does it have to do with our money?
Why do we say "I'll be a monkey's uncle" when we are very surprised? Does that mean our brother or sister had sex with a monkey?
What does "e pluribus unum" mean...one for all or all for one...or neither?
Who are "the wretched refuse" the Statue of Liberty beckons?
Which President would rather have been right?
Should you really "act as if there is no tomorrow" when at age 30 you've been proven wrong 10,950 consecutive times?
If happiness is derived from the attainment of values, and life is the greatest and ultimate value, why aren't we all happy?
Weren't we better off when we knew less and spent more time wondering?
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