Month: March 2006

No, this is not a Guard the Borders post about illegal aliens crossing our borders and living in our midst, sucking the life from a rule of law. This is about something else.

I was just a young lad when the reality that most folks who crawl behind the wheel of a car seem to crawl back, mentally, into the primordial ooze and begin evidencing the intelligence of single-celled organisms. That’s when our next-door neighbor decided to turn around in her seat to remostrate with a child while she was driving, assuring that her only real accomplishment would not be correcting her child but putting me in the hospital for more than a month (with more hospital stays later for other painful and frightening operations and procedures) by propelling me off my bicycle at a large fraction of her vehicle’s speed when she drove off the road…

While laying there in hospital, I was propelled during long nights of intimate aquaintance with pain… and those delightful pain meds, to begin an earlier than would probably have been normal foray into abstract thought. Particularly, I sent a lot of time thinking about death and what might come after.

Now, for a young boy, that might seem a little out of place, but pain was a frequent reminder—along with all those oh-so-helpful visitors—of Death’s kiss on my cheek. And so I thought of eternity, and eternity of nothingness or an eternity of life in heaven as promised by my church.

Neither were particularly comforting stacked up against the idea of forever.

I’d like to think that those days and weeks spent contemplating death and life, foreverness or nothingness propelled me into becoming a “deep thinker” but that’s not the case. All that experience did teach me is that this life I now live is going to end. What comes after is an eternity of something, and whatever that something is, it will be profoundly other than this life now.

And that the end of this life I now live is inevitable.

So, while I can be frightened in the sense of being startled or being threatened with harm, being frightened of death itself has become, over all the years since contemplating the discomforting nature of eternity, not such a big deal.

And maybe that makes me an alien of sorts among most folk.

Continue reading “The Aliens Among Us”

While I don’t buy all of his argument, William S. Lind has a point (or three),

To understand the Left’s insistence on leaving the drawbridge down, one has to know what “Political Correctness” and “multi-culturalism” really are. They are code words for the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School, the Marxist think tank that, beginning around 1930, undertook the intellectually difficult task of translating Marxism from economic into cultural terms (it had to break with both Moscow and Marx on some important points to do it.) Cultural Marxism’s purpose is the destruction of Western culture and the Christian religion. Any ally helpful in reaching those goals is to be welcomed, including allies who would slit the cultural Marxists’ own throats. So long as the West can be brought down, any price is worth paying.

From faux liberal congresscritters to Academia Nuts, Loony Left Moonbats and Mass Media Podpeople (Oh! My!), the thirst for the death of the West is palpable. America, at least, needs to wake up and smell the stench of the plague-ridden corpses of Marx and Engel dragged into our “castle” by the traitors in our midst.

Just a happy thought for Friday…

Shouting “Raise the drawbridge” at Basil’s Blog.

This won’t be an exhaustive list. I’ll hold myself to the top five Advantages to Living in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢

5. Beautiful landscapes. I’m not talking about scenic drivebys, although we have those in abundance, still. No, the beautiful landscapes I’m talking about are all around us. I can walk out on my back deck and see across the creek from our property land that seems as untouched as when this area was first settled in the 1820s. And I live “in town” (by about 150 feet).

4.) Low, low crime rate. See #3 below. Save for a few idiot meth labbers who are too damned stupid to realize that their neighbors can too tell they’re running a lab (and turn them in), it’s remarkably safe living in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. The only real danger folks run here is from outsiders and sometimes trigger-happy sheriff’s deputies (who in any case are inevitably outsiders themselves… letting off at other outsider troublemakers). Most Third World Countians know what Gun Control means…

3.) Gun racks in darned near every pickup truck. With guns racked and ready for use. Some kid expelled for having a rifle in his pickup in the high school parking lot? You HAVE to be kidding! He probably just got to school after an early morning hunt and is on his way back out as soon as the last class dismisses. Fuggetaboutit. And I KNOW alla my neighbors are armed and dangerous… to intruders who are the ones who need to BOLO (for armed and dangerous homeowners).

Continue reading “Advantages to Living in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢”

We have all read or heard about the opinion polls that tell us Iraqi’s want US troops out of Iraq now and condone attacks on Americans.  The MSM is always telling us what Iraqi’s think and want.  Some on the left tell us Iraq was better off before the invasion and Iraqis would prefer it never happened.  Some of tried to deny the fact that Saddam murdered 300,000 Iraqis.
 

As some of you know I recently named 24 Steps to Liberty and Treasure of Baghdad as the Blogs of the Month for March over at The Real Ugly American. These brave men are both journalists and patriots who love their country. They  risk their lives every day to tell the world  what is really going on in Iraq.  I found the information on their blogs to be very different from what I was hearing in the MSM.   So I decided to ask them both a few questions.  They have both replied.  Here are the questions and their respective answers:

1. Were you in favor of the US invading Iraq and removing Saddam before the war started?
 
Continue reading “What Iraqis Really Think”