A veritable cornucopia

Its gonna take a post or two to get this all of my system, so please be patient.

Also, I started "the diet" today, so if I sound a little cranky, its because I am a little cranky



Our world today….

I have about a million things running through my head, and I am going to try and share a few of them. Pick the ones you like….

1. I read about a tunnel discovered leading from Mexico into the US. It was large enough to funnel hundreds of people in, and it probably did. Why are we not working harder to stop this?
2. I am disappointed, once again, with the outcome of the Super Bowl. The Steelers should have never made it out if Cincinnati. I will never be convinced otherwise that it was not a cheap shot that took our quarterback out of the game and put his whole career in Jeopardy.

3. I think people who think that Islam is a religion of peace are delusional. I saw what has happened in Europe in response to a couple of political cartoons. I don’t think that the people who were burned out of their embassies and are in fear for their lives think that Islam is very peaceful.

4. I think that modern day government is a new version of slavery. I am a normal hard working middle aged, middle class male. I work 50 hours a week to put bread on the table and keep my house warm. My government takes my labor and gives it to people who have not worked for it, and don’t intend to work for it. If I refuse to hand over my hard earned dollars, I am facing jail, and my belongings can be sold to the highest bidder. Then the proceeds from the sale go to those who did not sweat and bleed for the things I have. The recipients of my work are not the fat cat politicians, they already have their money. The people who are the new slave lords are the masses that cross the border every night who “play the system.” Their excuse is that they are poor in Mexico, or Latin America, or wherever else they came from. Their accomplices in politics look down upon me as if I am some kind of un educated fool, or as if I have no compassion for the plight of the poor. Neither is the case. I have a college degree and I consider myself well educated. I am also a compassionate person, but it seems to me that compassion is something that and individual should decide to show. You cannot decide for me, to what causes I will be sympathetic and which I will not. Governmental compassion, shown by subsidizing those who overwhelm our emergency rooms, and our schools, and our welfare, and our jails, is nothing more than taxation without representation.

5. I really don’t care what Cindy Sheehan has to say about anything. I think that her invitation to the State of the Union address was simply another publicity stunt, and an attempt to embarrass our President. Whether you voted for him or not, no one has the right to disrupt the State of the Union address which is a Constitutionally mandated duty of the President. Free speech is not at stake here.

6. I will say it again Amanda, free speech is a myth, and you should be glad of it. This will sound very patronizing, but you simply are not old enough, not seasoned enough to understand why this is true. You have an astonishing intellect, but there is no substitute for experience.