I missed preaching church for the first time in something like eight years, Sunday. Our Minister of Music, Darlene Clark and I were both down with some kind of bronchitis/lung disorder, or something like that. I was really sick, and just could not bring myself to endanger my parishioners.
Have been spending almost the entire Memorial Day holiday in bed. Phooey! I did get a blessing when one of my parishioners called to esquire after my health. Pretty much made my day.
I went to the Dr. on Saturday. Got some antibiotics, and am feeling much better today. May miss the Tuesday Bible Study, but should be ready to hit the ground running Wednesday.
To my detractors: No, I am not going to die! Nyah, Nyah, Nyah.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
The Death of A Nation
Friends:
I have seen this a few times, and thought I'd pass it along. It is attributed to musician Charlie Daniels. If so, Thanks, Charlie. If not, thanks to whomever wrote it.
Your Non-Politically Correct Friend
Lee
Political Correctness: The Death Of A Nation
Rarely has there been a more poignant point illustrating the silliness of political correctness than that recently made by an Illinois school superintendent who is refusing to let a girl's high school basketball team travel to and compete in a tournament to be held in Arizona, simply because of the new immigration law that state recently passed.
The arrogance--and in my humble opinion, downright stupidity--of this person speaks not only to the out of control cancer of political correctness in this country, but also to the ignorance of this individual for not knowing that Arizona's new immigration law does nothing more than enforce the federal laws already on the books that the feds lack the will or the gonads to enforce.
In 1980 Jimmy Carter refused to let our athletes compete in the Summer Olympics in Moscow. In retrospect, what did he accomplish except to deny young athletes the opportunity to do something they had worked so hard for all their lives?
Looking back it was nothing more than a weak, meaningless gesture and I'm sure the Illinois basketball team's refusal to play in the Arizona tournament will be viewed in the future as just as weak and just as futile.
The problem at our borders has been glossed over by Democrat and Republican administrations and basically ignored by the Congress and Senate until the problem is no longer a political one but a matter of the survival of a state and the welfare of it's citizens.
Last night in Charlotte, NC, I met the wife and son of the rancher who was violently shot down by an illegal who murdered a good man and escaped back over the border.
These are solid American citizens, a family that has been torn apart by some scumbag who will probably never be caught and tried.
I'd like to see that school superintendent in Illinois explain her silly, meaningless little protest to this family. That's the problem with political correctness; there is no underpinning, only empty symbolism, as Mr. Shakespeare so succinctly put it, sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The federal government has ignored murder, rape, kidnapping, organized drug cartels and all manner of violence and nobody but the good people of the state of Arizona seem to have the will to do anything about it.
We have watched this problem grow, going from a minor irritation a few short decades ago to being one of the most serious threats to the future of America.
And something else we should all remember. It's easy to sit half a continent away and criticize what's going on in Arizona, our opinions formed by the meager, one-sided information we get from an agenda driven media.
It is quite another to live there, afraid to work or even walk across your own land, never knowing when or where violence is going to break out and catch your family in the crossfire, watching the local and federal agencies responsible for your safety unable to enforce the laws that would protect you because of the political correctness that is sapping the strength of this nation.
If your family was threatened with violence and the law refused to protect them, what would you do? If you're any kind of man, your answer to that question would be "anything I have to, to keep my loved ones safe."
Well Arizona is doing just that and it's going to take more than some puffed up, self-righteous, politically correct little school superintendent to keep them from it.
I have seen this a few times, and thought I'd pass it along. It is attributed to musician Charlie Daniels. If so, Thanks, Charlie. If not, thanks to whomever wrote it.
Your Non-Politically Correct Friend
Lee
Political Correctness: The Death Of A Nation
Rarely has there been a more poignant point illustrating the silliness of political correctness than that recently made by an Illinois school superintendent who is refusing to let a girl's high school basketball team travel to and compete in a tournament to be held in Arizona, simply because of the new immigration law that state recently passed.
The arrogance--and in my humble opinion, downright stupidity--of this person speaks not only to the out of control cancer of political correctness in this country, but also to the ignorance of this individual for not knowing that Arizona's new immigration law does nothing more than enforce the federal laws already on the books that the feds lack the will or the gonads to enforce.
In 1980 Jimmy Carter refused to let our athletes compete in the Summer Olympics in Moscow. In retrospect, what did he accomplish except to deny young athletes the opportunity to do something they had worked so hard for all their lives?
Looking back it was nothing more than a weak, meaningless gesture and I'm sure the Illinois basketball team's refusal to play in the Arizona tournament will be viewed in the future as just as weak and just as futile.
The problem at our borders has been glossed over by Democrat and Republican administrations and basically ignored by the Congress and Senate until the problem is no longer a political one but a matter of the survival of a state and the welfare of it's citizens.
Last night in Charlotte, NC, I met the wife and son of the rancher who was violently shot down by an illegal who murdered a good man and escaped back over the border.
These are solid American citizens, a family that has been torn apart by some scumbag who will probably never be caught and tried.
I'd like to see that school superintendent in Illinois explain her silly, meaningless little protest to this family. That's the problem with political correctness; there is no underpinning, only empty symbolism, as Mr. Shakespeare so succinctly put it, sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The federal government has ignored murder, rape, kidnapping, organized drug cartels and all manner of violence and nobody but the good people of the state of Arizona seem to have the will to do anything about it.
We have watched this problem grow, going from a minor irritation a few short decades ago to being one of the most serious threats to the future of America.
And something else we should all remember. It's easy to sit half a continent away and criticize what's going on in Arizona, our opinions formed by the meager, one-sided information we get from an agenda driven media.
It is quite another to live there, afraid to work or even walk across your own land, never knowing when or where violence is going to break out and catch your family in the crossfire, watching the local and federal agencies responsible for your safety unable to enforce the laws that would protect you because of the political correctness that is sapping the strength of this nation.
If your family was threatened with violence and the law refused to protect them, what would you do? If you're any kind of man, your answer to that question would be "anything I have to, to keep my loved ones safe."
Well Arizona is doing just that and it's going to take more than some puffed up, self-righteous, politically correct little school superintendent to keep them from it.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Illegal Aliens - Or something like that.
Right now there's this big deal in the press about Arizona passing a law making it illegal to be an illegal. Hummm. There is a federal law that does the same thing, it's just not enforced except by the US Border Patrol. (Hats off to those guys.)
I read where the Illegal aliens are pulling out of Arizona in droves. That is the idea after all, isn't it? This is going to open up an enormous amount of jobs for unemployed Americans.
Out of work? head to Arizona. Plenty of jobs there. Let's see... Skilled construction worker. $5.00 per hour. Field Laborer, $1.50 per hour. Yard maintenance, $20.00 per day. And you realize of course, that work days are 12 hours, don't you? Breaks? what breaks. You get paid to work, not take breaks.
Payday. You get payed at 6:00 pm. "La Migra", The Border Patrol shows up at 5:30. and you get to go back to Mexico, no matter where you come from. Now that is going to be a problem. How are the people who hire illegals going to figure out how to extract work from people, and not have to pay them?
No problem. The American workers will just unionize. Oops... That's why people hire illegals in the first place. No Union! 'Course it does keep the prices of the products low,
And what about the illegals who are pouring across the border from Canada? Oh, that's OK. They're white.
It's time we take a realistic view of the illegal alien problem.
Why do people come to the USA to work? Because there are jobs, and there are people in neighboring countries who are really, really poor. You haven't seen poor until you go to Mexico, and that is a rich country by the standards of other Central American nations.
You have heard about people living in cardboard shacks? Those are the well off. Cardboard is hard to find. And besides, how can you afford cardboard whey you have six babies to feed?
Many of our immigration problems are being solved as I write this. American companies are moving across the border to Mexico and other Central American countries, and providing much needed jobs. Automobile manufacturing, Clothing, Electronics, Consumer goods, Diesel engines, and too many more to mention.
And why not? They can get people to manufacture good quality products, for .80 cents an hour American. Approximately 9.60 Pesos an hour. That's damn good money in Mexico.
I read about a lot of violent crimes being committed by illegal aliens. I lived in southern Arizona for many years. I can tell you that for the most part, that is bovine scatology. Yes, there is some theft. People have to eat while they're traveling through the desert with no money, no knowledge of the language, or customs. The violent crimes that I saw were committed by legal aliens, and American Citizens. Not by people who are in hiding, fearing for their very lives.Yes, from time to time somebody gets a little too much celebratory cervesa on payday, and the testosterone overflows, but that's pretty much the lot.
The problem, as I see it, is primarily racism. We have been thought since infancy that "We're better than them." I wonder how many white people who are in this country illegally get asked for their papers? What would happen if we put up a 20 foot tall steel fence across the US border with Canada?
What we need to do, is take a good look at what is causing the problem. First, why are there jobs being filled by illegal aliens. Answer: because most Americans refuse to do those jobs. Second, why is the economy so poor in Mexico that their people go to such extreme risks to come here to work and send money back to feed their families? Answer: because we do not let them prosper. We wand them poor so that we can exploit them. One thing Mexico could do, is to not allow the Peso to be floated in international trading. Every time it goes up to a sustainable amount, the trading in Pesos causes the exchange rate to plummet. If you want an awakening, read the international exchange rates in the stock market reports every day.
Is there an answer? Yes, but it is as complicated as the problem. But we will never solve it with hate.
I read where the Illegal aliens are pulling out of Arizona in droves. That is the idea after all, isn't it? This is going to open up an enormous amount of jobs for unemployed Americans.
Out of work? head to Arizona. Plenty of jobs there. Let's see... Skilled construction worker. $5.00 per hour. Field Laborer, $1.50 per hour. Yard maintenance, $20.00 per day. And you realize of course, that work days are 12 hours, don't you? Breaks? what breaks. You get paid to work, not take breaks.
Payday. You get payed at 6:00 pm. "La Migra", The Border Patrol shows up at 5:30. and you get to go back to Mexico, no matter where you come from. Now that is going to be a problem. How are the people who hire illegals going to figure out how to extract work from people, and not have to pay them?
No problem. The American workers will just unionize. Oops... That's why people hire illegals in the first place. No Union! 'Course it does keep the prices of the products low,
And what about the illegals who are pouring across the border from Canada? Oh, that's OK. They're white.
It's time we take a realistic view of the illegal alien problem.
Why do people come to the USA to work? Because there are jobs, and there are people in neighboring countries who are really, really poor. You haven't seen poor until you go to Mexico, and that is a rich country by the standards of other Central American nations.
You have heard about people living in cardboard shacks? Those are the well off. Cardboard is hard to find. And besides, how can you afford cardboard whey you have six babies to feed?
Many of our immigration problems are being solved as I write this. American companies are moving across the border to Mexico and other Central American countries, and providing much needed jobs. Automobile manufacturing, Clothing, Electronics, Consumer goods, Diesel engines, and too many more to mention.
And why not? They can get people to manufacture good quality products, for .80 cents an hour American. Approximately 9.60 Pesos an hour. That's damn good money in Mexico.
I read about a lot of violent crimes being committed by illegal aliens. I lived in southern Arizona for many years. I can tell you that for the most part, that is bovine scatology. Yes, there is some theft. People have to eat while they're traveling through the desert with no money, no knowledge of the language, or customs. The violent crimes that I saw were committed by legal aliens, and American Citizens. Not by people who are in hiding, fearing for their very lives.Yes, from time to time somebody gets a little too much celebratory cervesa on payday, and the testosterone overflows, but that's pretty much the lot.
The problem, as I see it, is primarily racism. We have been thought since infancy that "We're better than them." I wonder how many white people who are in this country illegally get asked for their papers? What would happen if we put up a 20 foot tall steel fence across the US border with Canada?
What we need to do, is take a good look at what is causing the problem. First, why are there jobs being filled by illegal aliens. Answer: because most Americans refuse to do those jobs. Second, why is the economy so poor in Mexico that their people go to such extreme risks to come here to work and send money back to feed their families? Answer: because we do not let them prosper. We wand them poor so that we can exploit them. One thing Mexico could do, is to not allow the Peso to be floated in international trading. Every time it goes up to a sustainable amount, the trading in Pesos causes the exchange rate to plummet. If you want an awakening, read the international exchange rates in the stock market reports every day.
Is there an answer? Yes, but it is as complicated as the problem. But we will never solve it with hate.
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