Friday, March 30, 2007
The Professional Arena Takes Precedence Right Now
Hello all...most everyone important to me knows by now that I have tendered my resignation at my current job, effective April 13. I'm not sure what I am going to do next, but it will have to be done in a big hurry, whatever it is. I am officially back on the job hunt at warp speed, so if anyone hears of an attorney listing somewhere in the state of Tennessee, please let me know. Posting will be spotty at best until I get this figured out. I appreciate the love and prayers already sent on my behalf and those yet to come. Take care of yourselves, and in closing, as Arnold Schwarzenegger said in "The Terminator" series, "I'll be back."
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The John Doe Manifesto
Penned by author and columnist Michelle Malkin, this manifesto should be the creed of every loyal, patriotic American who doesn't want to see our democracy turned into a bunch of simpering whiners, cowering at the threat of a lawsuit or violence at the hands of Islamofascists. Today's required reading is here...read the whole thing.
Note: Earlier this month, six publicity-seeking imams filed a federal lawsuit against US Airways and the Metropolitan Airports Commission in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Muslim clerics were removed from their flight last November and questioned for several hours after their suspicious behavior alarmed both passengers and crew members. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten reported last week that the imams, advised by the grievance-mongers at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also plan to sue "John Does" -- innocent bystanders who alerted the authorities about their security concerns. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has introduced legislation to protect John Does who report suspicious behavior from legal liability. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; talk show host Michael Reagan; Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who heads the American Islamic Forum for Democracy; and Minnesota lawyer Gerry Nolting have all stepped forward to offer free representation to the imams' targets.
"Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,
You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.
I am John Doe.
I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.
I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.
I am John Doe.
I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.
I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.
I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.
I will act when homeland security officials ask me to "report suspicious activity."
I will embrace my local police department's admonition: "If you see something, say something."
I am John Doe.
I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing "scholars."
I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders.
I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.
I will challenge your attempts to indoctrinate my children in our schools.
I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.
I am John Doe.
I will support law enforcement initiatives to spy on your operatives, cut off your funding and disrupt your murderous conspiracies.
I will oppose all attempts to undermine our borders and immigration laws.
I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.
I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.
I will not be cowed by your Beltway lobbying groups in moderates' clothing. I will not cringe when you shriek about "profiling" or "Islamophobia."
I will put my family's safety above sensitivity. I will put my country above multiculturalism.
I will not submit to your will. I will not be intimidated.
I am John Doe."
Note: Earlier this month, six publicity-seeking imams filed a federal lawsuit against US Airways and the Metropolitan Airports Commission in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Muslim clerics were removed from their flight last November and questioned for several hours after their suspicious behavior alarmed both passengers and crew members. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten reported last week that the imams, advised by the grievance-mongers at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also plan to sue "John Does" -- innocent bystanders who alerted the authorities about their security concerns. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has introduced legislation to protect John Does who report suspicious behavior from legal liability. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; talk show host Michael Reagan; Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who heads the American Islamic Forum for Democracy; and Minnesota lawyer Gerry Nolting have all stepped forward to offer free representation to the imams' targets.
"Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,
You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.
I am John Doe.
I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.
I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.
I am John Doe.
I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.
I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.
I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.
I will act when homeland security officials ask me to "report suspicious activity."
I will embrace my local police department's admonition: "If you see something, say something."
I am John Doe.
I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing "scholars."
I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders.
I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.
I will challenge your attempts to indoctrinate my children in our schools.
I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.
I am John Doe.
I will support law enforcement initiatives to spy on your operatives, cut off your funding and disrupt your murderous conspiracies.
I will oppose all attempts to undermine our borders and immigration laws.
I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.
I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.
I will not be cowed by your Beltway lobbying groups in moderates' clothing. I will not cringe when you shriek about "profiling" or "Islamophobia."
I will put my family's safety above sensitivity. I will put my country above multiculturalism.
I will not submit to your will. I will not be intimidated.
I am John Doe."
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Texas Joins the "No Retreat" Community
Via Yahoo News, this is very good news. In addition to Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi (among other states), Texas has codified into law that a person has no duty to retreat in his home or any other place he is legally privileged to be. If an assailant is attempting to commit any number of violent felonies, a citizen in Texas and these other jurisdictions is legally privileged to stand his ground and to shoot the assailant without fear of criminal or civil liability. Obviously, the facts and circumstances must support this conclusion. That said, contrary to what the anti-gun lobby of whiners would have you believe, a criminal is far LESS likely to do violence to someone if they are in a state where the citizens are not only likely to be packing heat, but where those same citizens are legally privileged to bring said heat if the goblin tries any funny business. way to go Texas, now if only we could get Tennessee on board, it would be a virtual clean sweep in the Southeast (reason #4,812 I'd never be a Yankee or otherwise permanently live in a deep blue state).
"Criminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead.
Governor Rick Perry's office said on Tuesday that he had signed a new law that expands Texans' existing right to use deadly force to defend themselves "without retreat" in their homes, cars and workplaces.
"The right to defend oneself from an imminent act of harm should not only be clearly defined in Texas law, but is intuitive to human nature," Perry said on his Web site.
The new law, which takes affect on September 1, extends an exception to a statute that required a person to retreat in the face of a criminal attack. The exception was in the case of an intruder unlawfully entering a person's home.
The law extends a person's right to stand their ground beyond the home to vehicles and workplaces, allowing the reasonable use of deadly force, the governor's office said.
The reasonable use of lethal force will be allowed if an intruder is:
- Committing certain violent crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, or is attempting to commit such crimes
- Unlawfully trying to enter a protected place
- Unlawfully trying to remove a person from a protected place.
The law also provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully slays an intruder or attacker in such situations."
"Criminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead.
Governor Rick Perry's office said on Tuesday that he had signed a new law that expands Texans' existing right to use deadly force to defend themselves "without retreat" in their homes, cars and workplaces.
"The right to defend oneself from an imminent act of harm should not only be clearly defined in Texas law, but is intuitive to human nature," Perry said on his Web site.
The new law, which takes affect on September 1, extends an exception to a statute that required a person to retreat in the face of a criminal attack. The exception was in the case of an intruder unlawfully entering a person's home.
The law extends a person's right to stand their ground beyond the home to vehicles and workplaces, allowing the reasonable use of deadly force, the governor's office said.
The reasonable use of lethal force will be allowed if an intruder is:
- Committing certain violent crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, or is attempting to commit such crimes
- Unlawfully trying to enter a protected place
- Unlawfully trying to remove a person from a protected place.
The law also provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully slays an intruder or attacker in such situations."
Monday, March 26, 2007
Making Mark Foley Look Like a Piker Takes Some Doing
Sadly enough, this family of three repulsive cretins made Congressman Mark Foley sending perverted IMs to an underage male page seem almost acceptable. With the hideous details from Sister Toldjah, excerpted below, my heart is sick, my stomach turns, and my mind races with questions. When does it even start to sound like a good idea to molest a six year old boy? How could anyone with a heart or soul ignore his surely desperate and pathetic pleas to stop hurting him? This was a mother, father, and son trio that apparently raped and murdered this child...I wonder what the rapist father and masturbating mother would think or feel if someone did to their son what they did to young Christopher Barrios? Sad doesn't begin to do this case justice, and the D.A. is right to seek the death penalty against these freak shows. If there's an upside here, it's that the case will be tried in Georgia, a red state with about as much tolerance for sex offenders as Texas and which isn't afraid to impose the death penalty in the right case. These three monsters are entitled to the same due process as anyone else, but once convicted, I wouldn't want to be them in jail...and regardless, I DEFINITELY wouldn't want to be them in the afterlife trying to explain this one to God.
"Earlier this evening, I was sitting here at my computer blogging and heard some chatter close by. I looked outside my window and saw that one of my neighbors was outside working on his car (putting on a spare tire), and his son - who is probably about five or six years old - was out there with him. I gazed out the window from time to time, as I would hear the young boy laughing and talking. One minute, he’d be riding his scooter, and another minute he’d be inquiring to his dad about what he was doing. At one point, his dad started showing the little guy how to screw in (or unscrew?) a lugnut (I think that’s what they’re called) from a wheel. The dad let his son give it a try, with a little assistance, of course. I thought it was absolutely adorable. Dad and son doing ‘manly’ stuff, with the dad showing eternal patience and the son showing an inquisitiveness that is unique and special to children.
However, one family in Savannah, GA, though, won’t get to experience those same joys of watching their six-year old son ride a scooter, or change a tire, because his life was extinguished by a sexual predator who lived across the street from him - but not before the predator, and other members of his family, acted out their sick twisted ‘fantasies’ with the little boy. Bastards.
Later in the story, it mentions that Christopher Barrios disappeared after playing alone outside his house.
My prayers and thoughts go out to his parents, who are going through what NO parent should ever have to go through. Parents shouldn’t be burying their children. It’s supposed to be the other way around.
That said, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve driven by young kids in the neighborhood I work in walking down the street with no adult supervision, playing in their yards with no one in sight. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve sat in a restaurant and seen kids left alone in their seats while the adult goes to get napkins, or salt or whatever. When I worked at the mall in my younger years, I distinctly remember a time when a mother came into the store I worked in, with a young boy of about seven and also a young baby in a stroller. She walked around the store pushing the stroller, and she hadn’t even been in the store for five minutes before her son started running up the stairs to the second floor of the mall. And she didn’t even know it. I had to tell her. It bears repeating again and again: when they are together, whether at home or at a store, or wherever, people should never, ever let their kids out of their sight. It only takes a second for them to vanish.
Whatever state you live in, you should be able to go to your official state government website and look up sex offenders for your area, so you’ll know whether or not one is living close by. ... Know who is living around you so you can be better prepared to protect yourself and your loved ones from needlessly suffering at the hands of the ruthless."
"Earlier this evening, I was sitting here at my computer blogging and heard some chatter close by. I looked outside my window and saw that one of my neighbors was outside working on his car (putting on a spare tire), and his son - who is probably about five or six years old - was out there with him. I gazed out the window from time to time, as I would hear the young boy laughing and talking. One minute, he’d be riding his scooter, and another minute he’d be inquiring to his dad about what he was doing. At one point, his dad started showing the little guy how to screw in (or unscrew?) a lugnut (I think that’s what they’re called) from a wheel. The dad let his son give it a try, with a little assistance, of course. I thought it was absolutely adorable. Dad and son doing ‘manly’ stuff, with the dad showing eternal patience and the son showing an inquisitiveness that is unique and special to children.
However, one family in Savannah, GA, though, won’t get to experience those same joys of watching their six-year old son ride a scooter, or change a tire, because his life was extinguished by a sexual predator who lived across the street from him - but not before the predator, and other members of his family, acted out their sick twisted ‘fantasies’ with the little boy. Bastards.
Later in the story, it mentions that Christopher Barrios disappeared after playing alone outside his house.
My prayers and thoughts go out to his parents, who are going through what NO parent should ever have to go through. Parents shouldn’t be burying their children. It’s supposed to be the other way around.
That said, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve driven by young kids in the neighborhood I work in walking down the street with no adult supervision, playing in their yards with no one in sight. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve sat in a restaurant and seen kids left alone in their seats while the adult goes to get napkins, or salt or whatever. When I worked at the mall in my younger years, I distinctly remember a time when a mother came into the store I worked in, with a young boy of about seven and also a young baby in a stroller. She walked around the store pushing the stroller, and she hadn’t even been in the store for five minutes before her son started running up the stairs to the second floor of the mall. And she didn’t even know it. I had to tell her. It bears repeating again and again: when they are together, whether at home or at a store, or wherever, people should never, ever let their kids out of their sight. It only takes a second for them to vanish.
Whatever state you live in, you should be able to go to your official state government website and look up sex offenders for your area, so you’ll know whether or not one is living close by. ... Know who is living around you so you can be better prepared to protect yourself and your loved ones from needlessly suffering at the hands of the ruthless."
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Rules, Legalism, and Freedom
When I first became a Christian, and even before I really was one but was still reading the Bible, I read the Old Testament, especially books like Leviticus, with much confusion. I wondered what on earth not eating meat with blood in it, the type and number of animals to be sacrificed and when, or the way a man trimmed his hair and beard had to do with anything, much less a person's walk and relationship with God.
I heard a sermon recently that shed some light on this, and it makes a lot more sense now. Many analogies and references have been made to God as a father figure, and in the Old Testament, that's exactly what He had to be, because Jesus hadn't yet come. When a child is young, there are many things they don't know and can't possibly understand, so they must be given rules and regulations that are age-appropriate in order to protect them as they grow and mature. As a child grows up, the rules are gradually relaxed until they are mature enough to make decisions on their own. That's the way it was with the people in the Old Testament. Being as spiritually immature as they were, they couldn't possibly understand God's message of love, mercy and grace by faith as communicated by Jesus and others in the New Testament. The many laws that were put in place were there to teach them the right way to do things until the time when the people knew the right thing to do on their own. That doesn't mean that the laws are ever wrong or that they ever lose their value, it just means they aren't going to always be necessary, nor are they the end-all, be-all of a person's life and spiritual existence. Simply following doctrine is legalism, and not one person has ever been or will ever be saved because they are a good enough rule-follower, and that's where lots of folks miss the forest for the trees.
That got me to thinking about how many new Christians I've known (myself included) who, in their zeal to spread the Good News, probably turned off a lot of people by forcing the Bible and Scripture onto folks right on the front end. People who are broken, hurting, and in need of God don't want to hear a bunch of laws that sound like another self-help book from the neighborhood bookstore...they want someone to love them, to be there for them, etc. There's always time to talk and debate about Biblical laws and principles, about what exactly constitutes doing the right thing, etc., but we may only get one chance to show love, mercy, or understanding to someone. If we waste that time preaching to the broken about how bad they are because they didn't follow all the rules, they may be lost forever, and that's the last thing God wants.
In addition to its utility in the spiritual realm, I think the concept of starting from a more legalistic, rule-based approach to life has its merits and its place. For example, it's a good thing to start with a budget to get your finances in order or an exercise plan to get in better physical shape, especially if we've been undisciplined doing such things in the past in the absence of a clear plan. Budgets, exercise plans, etc. are great tools we can use to help parent ourselves until maturity arrives, but compliance with them is only a means to an end, not the end itself. What we're really after is the freedom to use some of our money to enjoy more of what life has to offer, or the financial flexibility to help others, or a better physical appearance to improve self-esteem, or better health to prolong our lives.
As we grow up along the way of whatever journey we're traveling, the strict rules we once held so dear can be replaced by the intrinsic value of successfully achieving goals in a way that's uniquely useful for us. That's when we have flexibility to tweak our exercise routine to fit our life because we know we won't quit working out if we miss one day at the gym; when we can go out to eat on a whim without wrecking our finances; or best of all, when we can be open and flexible enough to chart our own unique spiritual course without worrying about legalistic condemnation, boldly and confidently following where we believe God is taking our heart in a way that might not make sense to or work for anyone else.
The moral of the story is this: there's no real joy in just following the rules, even if it gets us to a good place. Worse yet, if we spend time beating ourselves up over the few times we fell short of the rules (and we all do, have, and will), we may get discouraged and quit; or even if we do achieve our goal, we might not be able to enjoy it as we should. I think as we get farther along in our respective journeys and we start to see some good results, the structure imposed by whatever rules we're following becomes much less important than it was at the beginning of the journey. The rules once served the purpose of control, guiding us toward a more generalized version of success because we had no idea where to start.
Being able to fully enjoy the big, great things in life because we trust God and our heart more every day to know the right thing do, and to be able to do so without being suffocated by a million rules (because they're now being taken care of and their purposes fulfilled in the natural course of our journey anyway) is the very definition of freedom. It is truly one of the most liberating places to be in life, and it's my sincere hope and prayer that everyone gets there.
I heard a sermon recently that shed some light on this, and it makes a lot more sense now. Many analogies and references have been made to God as a father figure, and in the Old Testament, that's exactly what He had to be, because Jesus hadn't yet come. When a child is young, there are many things they don't know and can't possibly understand, so they must be given rules and regulations that are age-appropriate in order to protect them as they grow and mature. As a child grows up, the rules are gradually relaxed until they are mature enough to make decisions on their own. That's the way it was with the people in the Old Testament. Being as spiritually immature as they were, they couldn't possibly understand God's message of love, mercy and grace by faith as communicated by Jesus and others in the New Testament. The many laws that were put in place were there to teach them the right way to do things until the time when the people knew the right thing to do on their own. That doesn't mean that the laws are ever wrong or that they ever lose their value, it just means they aren't going to always be necessary, nor are they the end-all, be-all of a person's life and spiritual existence. Simply following doctrine is legalism, and not one person has ever been or will ever be saved because they are a good enough rule-follower, and that's where lots of folks miss the forest for the trees.
That got me to thinking about how many new Christians I've known (myself included) who, in their zeal to spread the Good News, probably turned off a lot of people by forcing the Bible and Scripture onto folks right on the front end. People who are broken, hurting, and in need of God don't want to hear a bunch of laws that sound like another self-help book from the neighborhood bookstore...they want someone to love them, to be there for them, etc. There's always time to talk and debate about Biblical laws and principles, about what exactly constitutes doing the right thing, etc., but we may only get one chance to show love, mercy, or understanding to someone. If we waste that time preaching to the broken about how bad they are because they didn't follow all the rules, they may be lost forever, and that's the last thing God wants.
In addition to its utility in the spiritual realm, I think the concept of starting from a more legalistic, rule-based approach to life has its merits and its place. For example, it's a good thing to start with a budget to get your finances in order or an exercise plan to get in better physical shape, especially if we've been undisciplined doing such things in the past in the absence of a clear plan. Budgets, exercise plans, etc. are great tools we can use to help parent ourselves until maturity arrives, but compliance with them is only a means to an end, not the end itself. What we're really after is the freedom to use some of our money to enjoy more of what life has to offer, or the financial flexibility to help others, or a better physical appearance to improve self-esteem, or better health to prolong our lives.
As we grow up along the way of whatever journey we're traveling, the strict rules we once held so dear can be replaced by the intrinsic value of successfully achieving goals in a way that's uniquely useful for us. That's when we have flexibility to tweak our exercise routine to fit our life because we know we won't quit working out if we miss one day at the gym; when we can go out to eat on a whim without wrecking our finances; or best of all, when we can be open and flexible enough to chart our own unique spiritual course without worrying about legalistic condemnation, boldly and confidently following where we believe God is taking our heart in a way that might not make sense to or work for anyone else.
The moral of the story is this: there's no real joy in just following the rules, even if it gets us to a good place. Worse yet, if we spend time beating ourselves up over the few times we fell short of the rules (and we all do, have, and will), we may get discouraged and quit; or even if we do achieve our goal, we might not be able to enjoy it as we should. I think as we get farther along in our respective journeys and we start to see some good results, the structure imposed by whatever rules we're following becomes much less important than it was at the beginning of the journey. The rules once served the purpose of control, guiding us toward a more generalized version of success because we had no idea where to start.
Being able to fully enjoy the big, great things in life because we trust God and our heart more every day to know the right thing do, and to be able to do so without being suffocated by a million rules (because they're now being taken care of and their purposes fulfilled in the natural course of our journey anyway) is the very definition of freedom. It is truly one of the most liberating places to be in life, and it's my sincere hope and prayer that everyone gets there.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
"Somebody's Got to Say It", by Charlie Daniels
Courtesy of Beth at Yeah, Right, Whatever, Charlie Daniels mounts his soapbox and raps the hands of all the self-righteous, intolerant buffoons masquerading as the free speech police, when in fact they are the biggest threat to the very concept of free speech (well, right after Congressweasels like John McCain of course). I'm strongly against illegal immigration, most types of welfare, racial preferences, and I believe global warming is a hoax perpetrated by small men with delusions of grandeur and an insatiable greed for government grant dollars...but I'm not intolerant. I've informed myself about those issues, formed an opinion, and I am entitled to express it. Anyone who says otherwise or tries to criminalize it can just come try to shut me up. I'm waiting, but the intolerant cowards of which I speak haven't the backbone to back up their bigotry with ideas or actions, so I have nothing to fear, and screw them if they don't like it...hey, someone had to say it. :)
Somebody's Got To Say It
"I am sick, disgusted, exasperated, aggravated, ticked off, and fed up with the politically correct exaggerated and downright dumb attitude that some wiser than thou, condescending, hypocritical, la la land people in this country have.
Okay, I'll explain myself. If you say something about illegal Mexicans,
you're a bigot and hate all Hispanics and don't want anybody to come into
this country unless you have a two-generation pedigree of waspery.
If you say something about Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Rodney King you're a predjudiced bigot who wants to hold all African Americans down.
If you say something about Rosie O'Donnell, you're a homophobic
Redneck who wants to go around beating up gay people.
You people are disgusting.
You claim to be the protectors of Free Speech. Yet if a speaker of
dissenting opinions comes to one of your colleges you just get up and shout him or her down.
You claim to value the lives of the Iraqi babies but you won't raise one
self-righteous finger to save the millions of innocent unborn who fall
victim to the abortion assassin's knife.
You smear and try to ruin men of good character just because they don't
ascribe to the same beliefs you do.
You claim to be the champions of the poor but you always give them a fish
instead of a fishing pole.
You criticize the way that Saddam Hussein, one of the most evil men who ever walked, spent his last few minutes on earth, saying there should have been more dignity. Well the Iraqis don't believe in dignified hangings and it was their business, not yours. Live with it.
You get together over your vodka martinis and pat each other on the back and celebrate being the bigoted fools that you are. Yes I said bigoted, you
don't even want to consider somebody else's opinion.
You stoutly defend Islam, claiming it to be a peaceful religion. It never
has been and it never will be, but that doesn't make any difference to you,
the truth doesn't matter, only the perception.
You say that all religions are the same, they all lead to the mountaintop,
but I've got news for you. Nobody lives on the mountaintop except God and there's only one path to Him.
You make heroes out of people like Cindy Sheehan who obviously hates America and everything it stands for. A woman who goes around the world consorting with America's avowed enemies.
You defend nutcases like Ward Churchill who from the safety of his classroom acts as if the 9-11 attacks were a righteous execution of the guilty.
You weaken this country and embolden our enemies by your attitude because all you do is criticize. You have no answers or in many cases not even any ideas, you take no action but you are always ready to criticize those who have the initiative to do something.
And before you cherry pickers, (people who cherry pick this column and try
to twist it to make it say what you want it to) get your long johns in a
twaddle let me inform you that I am not defending any politicians.
This is not necessarily about politics but about attitudes, naive
tunnel vision, condescending attitudes.
Somebody's got to say it.
Pray for our troops
What do you think?"
God Bless America,
Charlie Daniels
March 16, 2007
Somebody's Got To Say It
"I am sick, disgusted, exasperated, aggravated, ticked off, and fed up with the politically correct exaggerated and downright dumb attitude that some wiser than thou, condescending, hypocritical, la la land people in this country have.
Okay, I'll explain myself. If you say something about illegal Mexicans,
you're a bigot and hate all Hispanics and don't want anybody to come into
this country unless you have a two-generation pedigree of waspery.
If you say something about Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Rodney King you're a predjudiced bigot who wants to hold all African Americans down.
If you say something about Rosie O'Donnell, you're a homophobic
Redneck who wants to go around beating up gay people.
You people are disgusting.
You claim to be the protectors of Free Speech. Yet if a speaker of
dissenting opinions comes to one of your colleges you just get up and shout him or her down.
You claim to value the lives of the Iraqi babies but you won't raise one
self-righteous finger to save the millions of innocent unborn who fall
victim to the abortion assassin's knife.
You smear and try to ruin men of good character just because they don't
ascribe to the same beliefs you do.
You claim to be the champions of the poor but you always give them a fish
instead of a fishing pole.
You criticize the way that Saddam Hussein, one of the most evil men who ever walked, spent his last few minutes on earth, saying there should have been more dignity. Well the Iraqis don't believe in dignified hangings and it was their business, not yours. Live with it.
You get together over your vodka martinis and pat each other on the back and celebrate being the bigoted fools that you are. Yes I said bigoted, you
don't even want to consider somebody else's opinion.
You stoutly defend Islam, claiming it to be a peaceful religion. It never
has been and it never will be, but that doesn't make any difference to you,
the truth doesn't matter, only the perception.
You say that all religions are the same, they all lead to the mountaintop,
but I've got news for you. Nobody lives on the mountaintop except God and there's only one path to Him.
You make heroes out of people like Cindy Sheehan who obviously hates America and everything it stands for. A woman who goes around the world consorting with America's avowed enemies.
You defend nutcases like Ward Churchill who from the safety of his classroom acts as if the 9-11 attacks were a righteous execution of the guilty.
You weaken this country and embolden our enemies by your attitude because all you do is criticize. You have no answers or in many cases not even any ideas, you take no action but you are always ready to criticize those who have the initiative to do something.
And before you cherry pickers, (people who cherry pick this column and try
to twist it to make it say what you want it to) get your long johns in a
twaddle let me inform you that I am not defending any politicians.
This is not necessarily about politics but about attitudes, naive
tunnel vision, condescending attitudes.
Somebody's got to say it.
Pray for our troops
What do you think?"
God Bless America,
Charlie Daniels
March 16, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
New Vols Men's Hoops Team, Same as the Old Vols' Football Teams
While watching the Vols' monumental collapse in the NCAA tournament against Ohio State last night, I was already imagining the blog post I would write when they beat the No. 1 seeded Buckeyes, bouncing the last Big Ten team from the Big Dance. Obviously, I forgot I was watching a Tennessee team play. At least with the gridiron Vols, they usually wait until the fourth quarter, or at least the second half to go on cruise control, play an offense that is, at best, conservative, and at worst, paralyzed, and play a prevent defense to allow the other team back in the game. In this game, the hardwood Vols did exactly that in the FIRST HALF!
Once they got up in double digits, they seemed to forget that hustle, a suffocating defense, and turnovers got them their big lead, and they were content to toss the ball around for 20 seconds and then jack up a 28 foot three pointer with 2 seconds left on the shot clock. For all his success and turnaround of the Vols mens' basketball team, especially in light of a team that is all second-tier talent (except Chris Lofton), Bruce Pearl deserves just as much blame for allowing this team to quit on the game as the players themselves deserve for actually doing the quitting. Chalk up another "what might have been" in Tennessee sports lore, and maybe one day Volunteer players will learn to dance with what brought them to the dance and leave everything else at home...but I doubt it.
Once they got up in double digits, they seemed to forget that hustle, a suffocating defense, and turnovers got them their big lead, and they were content to toss the ball around for 20 seconds and then jack up a 28 foot three pointer with 2 seconds left on the shot clock. For all his success and turnaround of the Vols mens' basketball team, especially in light of a team that is all second-tier talent (except Chris Lofton), Bruce Pearl deserves just as much blame for allowing this team to quit on the game as the players themselves deserve for actually doing the quitting. Chalk up another "what might have been" in Tennessee sports lore, and maybe one day Volunteer players will learn to dance with what brought them to the dance and leave everything else at home...but I doubt it.
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