7.28.2005
The Enemy
I recently paid a visit to San Francisco. It is a wonderful city. Beautiful along the steeped hills. Fragrant aromas and colorful people. This is life in the bluest of the blue cities America has to offer. Although I was acutely cognizant of this fact, I enjoyed every turn, every vista, and most of the people I encountered there. Frisco is simply shinin'. Sweet and easy.
But the photograph above, taken in that fair city by Zombie the day after the '04 elections, sums up very well the sad problem we Americans share among ourselves.
Look at that fellow's face.
Yeah, I voted for W, just like he voted for Kerry. Had the John won, I would have been sad and perturbed, to be sure, but I would not have indicted the 'blue' areas the way he did my homeland. That sort of expression would not have crossed my mind. Not in a million years. It was only an election, after all. Zombie's image captures a sick, pathetic pathos, which is not good for this nation.
The too veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas just said she would 'kill herself' should Dick Cheney decide to run for President in '08. Really? Pathetic pathology on her part, friends.
There is something dread wrong with the left in this country. Since America's inception, there has been vigorous, oft rancorous, debate over the direction our nation should take. I deeply disagree with that fellow's sentiments. I am offended by it, but I would not express myself likewise, because I do not believe Americans should lower themselves to that level. To do so exposes a lack of compromise, upon which we have exisited forever, save the uncivil war in 1861. Let's please not go there again...
The photograph does not bode well.
I recently paid a visit to San Francisco. It is a wonderful city. Beautiful along the steeped hills. Fragrant aromas and colorful people. This is life in the bluest of the blue cities America has to offer. Although I was acutely cognizant of this fact, I enjoyed every turn, every vista, and most of the people I encountered there. Frisco is simply shinin'. Sweet and easy.
But the photograph above, taken in that fair city by Zombie the day after the '04 elections, sums up very well the sad problem we Americans share among ourselves.
Look at that fellow's face.
Yeah, I voted for W, just like he voted for Kerry. Had the John won, I would have been sad and perturbed, to be sure, but I would not have indicted the 'blue' areas the way he did my homeland. That sort of expression would not have crossed my mind. Not in a million years. It was only an election, after all. Zombie's image captures a sick, pathetic pathos, which is not good for this nation.
The too veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas just said she would 'kill herself' should Dick Cheney decide to run for President in '08. Really? Pathetic pathology on her part, friends.
There is something dread wrong with the left in this country. Since America's inception, there has been vigorous, oft rancorous, debate over the direction our nation should take. I deeply disagree with that fellow's sentiments. I am offended by it, but I would not express myself likewise, because I do not believe Americans should lower themselves to that level. To do so exposes a lack of compromise, upon which we have exisited forever, save the uncivil war in 1861. Let's please not go there again...
The photograph does not bode well.
7.22.2005
His Excellency Thought about this, too
"[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people."
-- George Washington (letter to John Adams, 15 November 1794)
Reference: The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, Fitzpatrick, Ed., vol. 34 (American Memory Co)
Know of anywhere in the world where the problems of "immigration taking place in a body" are manifesting? Dig in your heels.
"[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people."
-- George Washington (letter to John Adams, 15 November 1794)
Reference: The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, Fitzpatrick, Ed., vol. 34 (American Memory Co)
Know of anywhere in the world where the problems of "immigration taking place in a body" are manifesting? Dig in your heels.
7.08.2005
War
It's not a matter of crime. If you think so after nearly four years, then you are naive beyond reason. It's not a matter of understanding the root cause. If you believe it's about poverty in the third world, or America's over-reaching hand around the globe, then you are either ideologically corrupt, or you are a decided enemy of our way and life in the western world.
We mourn the deaths of innocents. That is why we will hunt down and kill Islamic killers wherever they are found. Even if it takes 156 years. That is a sad pronouncement, but it is grounded in a reality that acknowledges this: "if you won't sit and reason, and if you insist on killing us and our way of life, then you have made a serious mistake. Prepare to die."
In the end, on this world, human beings have the inate right to fight fire with fire; they have a Providential right to defend life and liberty. We're doing it, come hell or high water. If you hunt for me in the name of "Peace", ala Islam, then I will shoot back. Bank on it.
It's not a matter of crime. If you think so after nearly four years, then you are naive beyond reason. It's not a matter of understanding the root cause. If you believe it's about poverty in the third world, or America's over-reaching hand around the globe, then you are either ideologically corrupt, or you are a decided enemy of our way and life in the western world.
We mourn the deaths of innocents. That is why we will hunt down and kill Islamic killers wherever they are found. Even if it takes 156 years. That is a sad pronouncement, but it is grounded in a reality that acknowledges this: "if you won't sit and reason, and if you insist on killing us and our way of life, then you have made a serious mistake. Prepare to die."
In the end, on this world, human beings have the inate right to fight fire with fire; they have a Providential right to defend life and liberty. We're doing it, come hell or high water. If you hunt for me in the name of "Peace", ala Islam, then I will shoot back. Bank on it.
