MERRY CHRISTMAS

To all my friends and relatives that visit my blog I wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS with love and peace. God bless you all, and may you be blessed with the Spirit of His love.  May you have a wonderful and prosperous coming year.  Thank you all.  I'm blessed to have you as my friends and family.  

Christmas, or what?

'Tis the time of good cheer and I'm irritated.  Is it Christmas, or what?

Why all the "Season's Greeting" and "Happy Holiday Wishes"?  Isn't it Christmas?  Can't we say, "Merry Christmas" anymore?  Christmas is an official federal government holiday.  It isn't a "Holiday" holiday.  It isn't a "Holiday Tree".  It is a "Christmas Tree".  It isn't a "Holiday Card".  It is a "Christmas Card".  Walmart has a large shelf full of "Holiday Cards".  I had to really search to find a few "Christmas Cards".  I notice that most of the cards we've received do not have the words "Merry Christmas" printed on or inside the card.  The senders are hand writing "Merry Christmas" on their cards.  Why do we have to do that?

Over 85% of the population of the United States of America professes to be Christians.  Why can't we, the majority, celebrate Christmas?  Why can't we have Christmas Trees and Christmas Cards?  If you are offended because we want to celebrate Christmas, then too bad.  Go some place else and see how tolerant they are of your intolerance.

Sleeping with Dogs

When you sleep with junkyard dogs you get fleas.  I've never know junkyard dogs not to have fleas.  Obama has been sleeping with some pretty notorious junkyard dogs.  He must have fleas "fur shore."  Else, why is he scratching so?

SNOW

A rare phenomenon occurred about dusk this evening for our part of Texas.

Snow.

We seldom have sub-freezing temperatures much less snow.  We sometimes have cold weather  but it is usually only about 28 to 32 degrees, dry and lasts only a day or two.  Then it warms back up.  If we have precipitation with a cold front it usually precedes the front as rain.  Depending on the time of the year it may be just light rain, or in the spring it sometimes is violent with strong thunderstorms and hail, but hardly ever snow.

It started as light flurries of small flakes and gradually became a heavy snowfall. The snowflakes drifted almost straight down.  They covered everything in a blanket of white about an inch thick.  My wife and I gazed out the window at the west pasture covered in snow dotted with a few snow laden trees.  It made a pastoral scene of white in tones of gray in the fading light of twilight.

It snowed about an hour, then it stopped.  

Electromagnetic Pulse

     Friends, there is a great danger to our national security that few of us even know about.  It has been known for years and yet is seldom discussed by our national leaders or news media.  Back in the mid-1960's I worked briefly on this top secret program for the government.  It is a relatively simple device, but to be effective requires an accurate delivery system (missile) and an explosive detonator (small atomic bomb) to activate it.  It is something known as an electromagnetic pulse.  If properly launched into the atmosphere and detonated it can wreck havoc over a large geographic area rendering everything electronic (radios, televisions, computers, radar, avionics, etc.) within range functionally inoperative.  It doesn't kill people.  It just renders worthless almost everything we use in our daily lives. If detonated at the right altitude over the geographic center of the United States in Kansas it would affect almost the entire nation.

     I read an editorial, "Missile Defense Takes Off", in the December 4, 2008, issue of the Investors' Business Daily as follows:  "We have pointed out the dangers of an Iranian freighter launching a Shahab that would detonate its warhead high over the United States, unleashing an electromagnetic pulse that would send our high-tech economy back to the days of the covered wagon".  If this was to happen a large segment of our economy would come to a standstill.  We could not even go to Wal-Mart because the doors would not open.  We could not put gas in our cars because the pumps would not work.

     This is one of the main reasons it has been the policy of the current and prior administrations to keep Iran and other rogue nations from getting the atom bomb.  We can only pray that the incoming administration is wise enough to recognize this danger and act appropriately to keep us safe.

     If you want to read more about this do a Google search on "electromagnetic pulse" or "E-bomb".  As far as I know this is still a top secret program.  However, I've read bits and pieces about it for years in various public trade publications most of which fairly accurately describe the program and its effects. 

To Heck with the Poor

The poor.  Don't you get sick of hearing liberals talk about "The Poor" as if they were some special species of human being with inherent virtues the rest of us don't have?  I do.  To heck with The Poor.

I have been poor and I can tell you there is no virtue in it.  Poor people are a liability.  They don't invest in the country, they don't pay their fair share of the taxes, and they consume a disproportionate amount of the public benefits.  They are parasites.

Some people are poor through no fault of their own, just bad luck, but some people are poor entirely because of their own fault.  They deserve no sympathy whatsoever.  Their poverty is a form of justice.  People who are lazy, dishonest and irresponsible deserve to be poor forever.  It's insane to believe, as liberals do, that the situation they themselves created and deserve confers on us an obligation to take bread out of children's mouths and give it to them, less a deduction for the bureaucrats in the poverty industry.

Every decent poor person I've ever known hoped fervently that his poverty was a temporary condition.  He certainly didn't go around bragging about it and labeling himself "The Poor".  His goal was to become part of "The Rich", instead of a permanent lobbyist for "The Poor".

I'm sick of this inverted system liberalism has imposed on us.  You hear people complain, well the poor can't go to college.  The poor aren't supposed to go to college, just like the poor aren't supposed to go to the Riviera. Being poor means not having enough money to do much more than just get by,  so where does some poor person get off claiming he has a right to all the things he can't pay for?

Poor people, like rich people, have their rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.  Nothing in the Bill of Rights says that those who work are obligated to support those who don't.  Nothing in the Bill of Rights says that those who are lucky are obligated to support those who are unlucky.

If a poor kid wants to go to college, then he should do the same thing millions of other poor kids have done, work his way through.  If he can, great.  If he can't, too bad.  There is nothing in the Constitution which guarantees that everyone will be able to do exactly what they would like to do.  A man's goal ought to be to go as far as he can within the limits circumstances imposed on him.  That's better than sitting around bewailing the circumstances.

People used to be ashamed of being poor, but now some poor people are arrogant about it.  To heck with them. I don't say let them eat cake;  I say let them eat anything they can acquire through honest labor--theirs, not mine.

Human nature being what it is, we ought to devise ways to make it tougher on The Poor instead of easier.  As Brother Dave says, when a man is down, kick him and you'll give him an incentive to get up.

I think for example, we ought to take the vote away from The Poor.  They can't pay for government, so why should they have a voice in running it.  We ought to levy a special tax on cheap wine and on low rents.  We ought to tax the unemployed and if they can't pay it, put them in public workhouses to work it off.

When I was a member in good standing of The Poor, I couldn't wait to get out.  Now, too many people are enjoying poverty.  We should see to it that poverty is once more the miserable state it should be.

Charley Reese

Suncoast News/A/June 27, 1981

I have to say I couldn't agree with Mr. Reese more.  I recently ran across this tidbit of wisdom on my old MAC Quadra-610 (22 years old and still working) under the heading of Trivia.  Its even more appropriate today than it was 27 years ago when written by Mr. Reese.  Today we not only have the poor with their hands out with tin cups in hand, we also have millionaires with their tin cups out, and our government (which the rest of us pay for) is ponying up not million$, but billion$ with no end in sight.  What the heck ever happened to being responsible for your own actions?

The financial mess we have today is the perfect embodiment of what results when the government mucks around with the economy for the benefit of "The Poor".