All told, I suppose the Kennedys take the prize with druggies, drunks, bootleggers, adulterers, rapists, possibly even a murderer, but they're such a huge tribe, they have an advantage in numbers.
Carter had a crappy family, too. but lately B.O., for a rather small group, is making a good show with two illegal aliens - BTW, why haven't they been deported? Possibly B.O.is even an impostor, an alien faking his citizenship.
What I notice is that the low class of the family is always reflected the caliber of governance foisted off on us, the people.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
THE WORST DAY IN OUR HISTORY?
I intended to mention 11 September 2001 but it occurs to me that a person justifiably could believe it to be 4 November 2008, when the wholesale ruination of the U.S. was set in motion by a dim-witted electorate.
No, I want to confine comment to September 11, and I have to do it following a rich crop of very eloquent words; words about acts of heroism that day, of pity for several thousand murder victims, and, as difficult as they are to follow, exhortations for forgiveness. Consider those said.
I wish to return to the subject of the colossal unpreparedness of whatever passed then as our national resources of security, intelligence, and investigation and the criminal negligence of business organizations that, through stupidity and carelessness, actually abetted the vicious criminals in their heinous plans and execution. Also useless were our systems for reacting to attacks, for after the Trade Center disasters, there was still time to shoot down the plane that struck the nerve center of our defenses, a place virtually surrounded by fighter aircraft, not one of which came close to destroying it.
For a moderate Democrat - remember those? When did they all turn rabid? - I thought George W. Bush was a decent president, but what I still have difficulty in forgiving him is that by the afternoon of that hellish day or, at the latest, the first thing the next morning he had NOT cleaned house in all the offices and bureaus and agencies that were supposed to guard us against such atrocities. Wholesale firings and accusations of ineptitude were in order. Furthermore, he immediately should have set the country's legal apparatus against certain airline companies and other firms that made it all possible.
Militarily our defenses were deplorable, so when budget-hunting politicians want to cripple defense expenditures, at the expense of titanic welfare waste, land on them like angry falcons.
No, I want to confine comment to September 11, and I have to do it following a rich crop of very eloquent words; words about acts of heroism that day, of pity for several thousand murder victims, and, as difficult as they are to follow, exhortations for forgiveness. Consider those said.
I wish to return to the subject of the colossal unpreparedness of whatever passed then as our national resources of security, intelligence, and investigation and the criminal negligence of business organizations that, through stupidity and carelessness, actually abetted the vicious criminals in their heinous plans and execution. Also useless were our systems for reacting to attacks, for after the Trade Center disasters, there was still time to shoot down the plane that struck the nerve center of our defenses, a place virtually surrounded by fighter aircraft, not one of which came close to destroying it.
For a moderate Democrat - remember those? When did they all turn rabid? - I thought George W. Bush was a decent president, but what I still have difficulty in forgiving him is that by the afternoon of that hellish day or, at the latest, the first thing the next morning he had NOT cleaned house in all the offices and bureaus and agencies that were supposed to guard us against such atrocities. Wholesale firings and accusations of ineptitude were in order. Furthermore, he immediately should have set the country's legal apparatus against certain airline companies and other firms that made it all possible.
Militarily our defenses were deplorable, so when budget-hunting politicians want to cripple defense expenditures, at the expense of titanic welfare waste, land on them like angry falcons.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
DO WE STILL NEED LABOR DAY?
Yesterday we celebrated work and the people that accomplish it. Consider several historical observations about this human endeavor.
In the 13th century, Clare of Assisi, later St. Clare, composed the Rule to be followed by her order of sequestered nuns, the Poor Clares and, in it, devoted a chapter to work
“Chapter VII
The Manner of Working
The Sisters to whom the Lord has given the grace of working should labor faithfully and devotedly after the hour of Terce (about 8 a.m.) at work which contributes to integrity and the common good; and this in such a way that idleness, the enemy of the soul, being banished …
And the Abbess of her Vicaress is bound to assign to each one … in the presence of all, those things to be done by the work of her hands.”
Your first assignment, reader, is to deduce the importance of work to this Saint, whose paradigm of service to God had cornerstones of celibacy, obedience, poverty, and enclosure and devoted one of her few, defining chapters to the necessity of physical labor. Work was a GRACE from the Lord!
Next, examine these lines of Father Bede Jarrett (d. 1934), a Dominican priest in England.
“Life is incompatible with inactivity, for if we stagnate, we die. … every known power of man is subject to the same law of development – namely, to preserve a faculty, it must be exercised.”
“Labor, therefore, is the origin of all true greatness and dignity, the badge of intelligence.”
“The development, then, of the faculties is essential to their preservation, is a condition of life, since life itself must be always dynamic.”
In the U.S. today the value of work and the necessity of work to a healthy, dynamic, developing society appear to be losing recognition. More and more people are content to live by public welfare, a large contingent of the population has sunk to expect, even demand, it, and another huge subset have generations-long histories of never having attempted to work and merely subsist as indolent, detrimental slugs.
This is becoming a nation of panhandlers. Has it any justification – aside from an official day of no work – for a Labor Day?
In the 13th century, Clare of Assisi, later St. Clare, composed the Rule to be followed by her order of sequestered nuns, the Poor Clares and, in it, devoted a chapter to work
“Chapter VII
The Manner of Working
The Sisters to whom the Lord has given the grace of working should labor faithfully and devotedly after the hour of Terce (about 8 a.m.) at work which contributes to integrity and the common good; and this in such a way that idleness, the enemy of the soul, being banished …
And the Abbess of her Vicaress is bound to assign to each one … in the presence of all, those things to be done by the work of her hands.”
Your first assignment, reader, is to deduce the importance of work to this Saint, whose paradigm of service to God had cornerstones of celibacy, obedience, poverty, and enclosure and devoted one of her few, defining chapters to the necessity of physical labor. Work was a GRACE from the Lord!
Next, examine these lines of Father Bede Jarrett (d. 1934), a Dominican priest in England.
“Life is incompatible with inactivity, for if we stagnate, we die. … every known power of man is subject to the same law of development – namely, to preserve a faculty, it must be exercised.”
“Labor, therefore, is the origin of all true greatness and dignity, the badge of intelligence.”
“The development, then, of the faculties is essential to their preservation, is a condition of life, since life itself must be always dynamic.”
In the U.S. today the value of work and the necessity of work to a healthy, dynamic, developing society appear to be losing recognition. More and more people are content to live by public welfare, a large contingent of the population has sunk to expect, even demand, it, and another huge subset have generations-long histories of never having attempted to work and merely subsist as indolent, detrimental slugs.
This is becoming a nation of panhandlers. Has it any justification – aside from an official day of no work – for a Labor Day?
Saturday, August 27, 2011
CONTEMPORARY AMERICA ANSWERS ISAIAH
That prophet asked,
"Can a woman forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?"
I guess we've shown him, haven't we?
"Can a woman forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?"
I guess we've shown him, haven't we?
THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS CRIMINALS
Today I looked at a web page's "news" headlines. Under "Sports" were four items, one about the hurricane and these three
Bonds' Conviction Upheld by Judge
Former NBA Player Crittenton Charged with Murder
LSU's QB, Teammate Booked in Bar Fight and Released
What does one notice about these diverse incidents? Two are characters known by the laughable term, student-athlete, while a third is an ex - s.a. I don't know if Barry Bonds ever went to college; a degree's not required to handle a syringe.
All four named are African-Americans.
Bonds' Conviction Upheld by Judge
Former NBA Player Crittenton Charged with Murder
LSU's QB, Teammate Booked in Bar Fight and Released
What does one notice about these diverse incidents? Two are characters known by the laughable term, student-athlete, while a third is an ex - s.a. I don't know if Barry Bonds ever went to college; a degree's not required to handle a syringe.
All four named are African-Americans.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS, INCISIVE OBSERVATIONS
1. Let's not crucify Michelle Bachmann (This is the Michelle that has sense and capability, not the Affirmative Action Queen). Who on earth pays attention to when a junkie, especially one exalted merely by clever marketing and generally without talent, was born and when he died?
2. Investigations have revealed that the death threats against David Letterperson, originally thought to be simply base publicity shenanigans to elevate his ratings, were, in fact, honest. They were made by the American Dental Association, who would like such a bad example of teeth removed from the public view.
3. Tim, The Taxpayer, Geithner has pledged the country to continuing, hypogean interest rates. Thanks, Tim, from milions of people whose livelihoods, in the form of retirement incomes, will remain artificially depressed in favor of cheap loans to people that don't repay. Where's AARP on that one? If you're a senior and subsidize AARP, better have yourself checked for Alzheimer's.
4. I saw just one snapshot and didn't hear the blow-by-blow, but I'll bet Georgetown U's athlete students defeated the Chinese guys in the basketball fistfight. The reason is that for basketball players, American universities tend to recruit thugs, and the District of Columbia is one of the thuggier parts of the country.
2. Investigations have revealed that the death threats against David Letterperson, originally thought to be simply base publicity shenanigans to elevate his ratings, were, in fact, honest. They were made by the American Dental Association, who would like such a bad example of teeth removed from the public view.
3. Tim, The Taxpayer, Geithner has pledged the country to continuing, hypogean interest rates. Thanks, Tim, from milions of people whose livelihoods, in the form of retirement incomes, will remain artificially depressed in favor of cheap loans to people that don't repay. Where's AARP on that one? If you're a senior and subsidize AARP, better have yourself checked for Alzheimer's.
4. I saw just one snapshot and didn't hear the blow-by-blow, but I'll bet Georgetown U's athlete students defeated the Chinese guys in the basketball fistfight. The reason is that for basketball players, American universities tend to recruit thugs, and the District of Columbia is one of the thuggier parts of the country.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
STAKKARS NORGE
It means “poor Norway,” not in the sense of impoverished, for this is a VERY, VERY, VERY wealthy nation, but to mean pitiable. I intend, of course, the recent atrocity that took place in Oslo and environs, and any country where such a thing occurred would be pitiable.
The unbelievable ineptitude of the Keystone Kops’ response to the tragedy is, however, utterly disgusting. They were unable to muster a police helicopter because ALL the pilots were vacationing??!! That’s what I read, and, in several ways, I wasn’t surprised.
Even in the days before the oil windfall, it was a land of vacations, and the work ethic was considered unethical. Then, as now, if a person were not taking a vacation, he was planning the next one.
As for the police, their best capability is laying booze traps to catch drivers with a drop of alcohol in their blood. This is not a bad thing to do, for take a look at drunk driving in our poor country. They are also highly keen when it comes to apprehending the smuggling in of commodities the government taxes into oblivion, alcohol and tobacco. An American woman that lived there told me she came home one day and remarked that the Salvation Army certainly maintained a prominent presence in Bergen. Her husband asked how she could tell that, and she proceeded to describe the peaceful men strolling the streets in those long, black cassocks, and those were the police!
It’s a beautiful, prosperous, happy nation with a government that tells everyone every move to make. Friends there complain about being controlled by a pack of Socialist farmers, which was their impression of the Storting (Parliament). The admirable lack of crime – it used to be that a rape made the national news, and nearly every violent crime is committed by one of the aliens the generous country encourages – explains, naturally, its unpreparedness for the mass murderer.
Stakkars Norge, to be sure, but all the police pilots on vacation at one time? The maniac had an hour and a half to shoot the poor victims. Wake up, Norge; start working a little and believe that no one, anywhere in this world, is completely safe.
How many lives is a vacation day worth, anyway?
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