What I Really Meant To Say
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 11:44AM 
I've had a blog post formulated in my mind for at least two days now. In keeping with the observance on Monday of a national holiday in honor of an adulterous "preacher" with a fake name and more communist sympathies than a boatload of Bolsheviks, it started with a title: I Have A Nightmare. Believe it or not, I had already come up with a whole page of bulleted items that were just waiting to be fleshed out.
Because it had occurred to me that, if Michael King, Jr. (his real name) wished for a day when his four children would be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, all the momentous hoopla taking place 495 miles north of where I sit notwithstanding, that day has not yet come.
I would have illuminated the subject by using appropriately pejorative terms such as "hoax," "swindle," "bilk," "cozen," "defraud," mulct," and "bamboozle."
Mr. Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States precisely because of the color of his skin. He certainly had no other qualifications ... and I've never heard even the liberals make noises that it had a whit to do with the content of his character. If anything, the mainstream drive-by media have spent the last couple of years vainly attempting to distract the American voter from any real scrutiny of Mr. Obama's character.
In keeping with the general tone of my post, naturally I planned to cloud up and rain all over the hypocritical liberal Oprahesque Hollyweird celebrities -- who preach to the rest of us about our "carbon footprint" while engaging in conspicuous consumption of global resources on a scale at which you and I can only gaze in wonderment -- converging upon our nation's capital in their Gulfstream G250's, deplaning and tottering on thousand-dollar Manolos over to their stretch limos while the servants manage a raft of Louis Vuitton luggage, to celebrate an event leaving a carbon footprint so massive it would take the average household 57,000 years to match it.
(Not that I care about the alleged carbon footprint, no matter what its size, because the notion of climate change effected by humans is bogus, y'all. Things that live and breathe -- this next part was designed by God -- emit CO2. Always have, always will. His uber-boring inconvenient movie and the Nobel Peace Prize decorating his mantel notwithstanding, Al Gore is wrong -- as are the rest of the environmentalist wackos who profit from this heinous scam.)
Nevertheless I was going to be characteristically smart-mouthed helpful and direct you here so that you could purchase penance carbon offsets to atone pay for your many imaginary environmental transgressions. Most likely I would have illuminated the subject by using appropriately pejorative terms such as "hoax," "swindle," "bilk," "cozen," "defraud," mulct," and "bamboozle," and probably would even have quoted P.T. Barnum -- "There's a sucker born every minute" -- but we'll never know.
I considered pointing out that I'm a trifle irked by the fact that the same liberal media that excoriated President Bush for the $40 million price tag on his 2005 inauguration -- you know, that time he was reelected sans "benefit" of hanging chads -- now gush with the slobbering zeal demonstrated only by elite subscribers to particularly sycophantic personality cults -- the likes of which even Elvis and The Beatles might only have dreamt -- that payment of the $110 million tariff for Barack Hussein Obama's "historic" coronation inauguration was worthy to be deemed a national emergency.
(That means taxpayers are footing the lion's share of a bill that almost -- but not quite -- attains the virtual tonnage of our new President's god complex.)
Mr. Geithner probably could not get hired to man an adding machine at the agency of which he will soon be the de facto master and commander.
I had come up with an impressive litany of complaints about the presumptive Secretary of the Treasury who "forgot" to pay his Social Security taxes from 2001 until 2004, inclusive -- something that President Obama has termed an "innocent mistake" -- and you can bet I would have pointed out that if TG and I commit the same crime make an identical innocent mistake for four years running, Mr. Geithner and his minions at the Infernal Revenue Service will most likely freeze our assets harder than the fingers and toes of the millions of screaming, adoring members of Mr. Obama's ersatz fan club assembled in Washington last night.
(It's weird because although we've never been formally introduced, the folks at the IRS seem to know a lot of really personal stuff about TG and me. Like, where we live and our blood types and the amount of money we make ... and how much of it -- the blood and the money -- is theirs.)
Not to mention, in light of his "innocent mistake," according to the rules by which you and I are forced obliged to live, Mr. Geithner probably could not get hired to man an adding machine at the agency of which he will soon be the de facto master and commander.
That's what you call ironic.
As if that were not enough, I was more than a little disconcerted by President Obama's new pivot-and-proceed policy concerning community organizer Osama Bin Laden. A few months ago Mr. Osama Obama accused President Bush of being so ineffectual he couldn't catch our arch-enemy, instead succeeding only in driving the turbaned terrorist further into hiding. Mr. Obama averred he'd have the weasel flushed out and hanging high within the first 100 days of his reign first term. Suddenly he seems to think it's A-OK if we let OBL hang out in the caves of Afghanistan indefinitely, as long as he's unable to text-message his cadre of eager death-to-America-chanting followers.
Can we really afford to be so selectively dumb? Waffles, anyone?
I intended to wax snide eloquent on the subject of Speaker Nancy Neuroses Pelosi's incessant yammering about how she and Harry Reid, her loyal sidekick, are champing at the bit to prosecute President Bush and Vice President Cheney for war crimes committed while in office. Has anyone checked to see if insanity runs in this poor woman's family? Ah, don't waste your precious energy. If it never has before, it certainly does now.
They always have been, and always will be, among the most exquisite blessings I have ever received from the hand of God.
I was feeling decidedly dour about the bill introduced in Congress on January 6, 2009, by one Jose Serrano (D-New York) that seeks to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, "thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President" and making it possible for Barack Hussein Obama to be Monarch President for life. That is, if he can get reelected in 2012, 2016, 2020, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, as President Bush managed to do in 2004.
I figure somewhere in there, I would have registered deep discontent over the fact that, thanks to our new President, America is about to become a place where the "rights" of Sodomites are far more protected than the lives of unborn children. We're no longer even going to pretend that we stand for something even slightly more decent and compassionate; I'm afraid those halcyon days are gone with the wind.
(Now it's official: America has a President who, though educated at Harvard, apparently missed the day in seventh-grade Biology where the class learned that if a thing is growing, that means it's alive. And when the thing that's alive is a human being who has never had the chance to harm another living soul, it's murder if you kill it. Humanity 101, if you will.)
I had planned to say that President Obama's hyper-leftist position on the matter of abortion may be based on these and other mysteries of the universe being above his paygrade ... but the point is moot because at any rate, his beliefs in this realm are beneath contempt. He even asserted that he wouldn't want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" if they happen to become pregnant before they're married or before they planned to be mothers.
(Call me crazy, but no matter how closely I examine my experiences bearing and rearing four children, I could never regard any aspect of their existence as "punishment." They always have been, and always will be, among the most exquisite blessings I have ever received from the hand of God. But then, I got married before I was intimate with a man. Tends to color a girl's outlook.)
Adult behavior comes with responsibility that isn't always so easily disposed of as walking into an abortion mill and handing over your money, effectively putting out a hit on your own child. Teach that to Sasha and Malia, Mr. and Mrs. Obama. I dare you to be different.
By the way, in light of his attitude I'm assuming Mr. Obama stands prepared to fund the demise of his own grandchild(ren), if necessary ... and why not? The American taxpayer already bankrolls millions of baby murders in America each year, and President Obama wants us to start paying to kill children in Third-World countries as well.
I thank you for your courage and mettle in the face of liberal opposition, media hatemongering, political malfeasance, and global terrorism.
(What ... the pickings aren't rich enough within our own borders? Immorality, ignorance, promiscuity and selfishness not quite rampant enough to sate our appetite for the blood of society's true victims?)
Oh, and while we're at it, let's repeal every last shadow of any law that might give even a ghost of a chance for protected life to the unborn in our country, unless their own mothers make the inconvenient (and increasingly unpopular) choice to actually love them.
I might have gotten a little worked up about some or all of the above.
Suffice it to say, the post I'd planned was probably not going to be a lighthearted meander down a flower-strewn path leading to the filigreed gates of Happyland. But all of that has changed.
We in the Midlands of South Carolina woke up to a dusting of snow this morning. Looks like God gave the angels huge sifters full of confectioner's sugar and told them to fan out all over Heaven, lightly tapping the stuff down onto our world as we slumbered.
The sight of snow made me feel a tad bit less churlish about this day when I fear my beloved America is advancing to the point of no return on a road that will eventually render it a sad parody of its once-glorious self.
If I'm a bit colder on the outside, I'm somewhat warmer on the inside. This doesn't happen often so I decided to make the most of it. Carpe diem, y'all!
(My burgeoning sense of optimism is augmented by the fact that yesterday, in the last 24 hours of his presidency, George W. Bush commuted the sentences of heroic Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. It's about time! The development made me so happy for these brave men and their families, I forgot all my sarcastic observances about MLK day and the crowning swearing-in of a new President.)
So since I decided not to share all of that negative stuff with you, all that's left to say is, farewell, dear Dubya. I thank you for your courage and mettle in the face of liberal opposition, media hatemongering, political malfeasance, and global terrorism. You've made a few mistakes, but so will your successor. We've found that weapon of mass destruction, by the way ... finally! But it wasn't located in Iraq. It's us.
It's us if we don't wake up to the fact that our destiny -- both individually and collectively, both for ourselves and for future generations, both now and for all eternity -- is inextricably linked to the informed choices we willingly make.
Can I buy a snow shovel in South Carolina? You may keep the change.
God bless the Untied United States of America.
Reader Comments (18)
Amen...to all of it.
Mom you hit the nail right square on the head. Thank you for that. I Love You,
Andrew
Wow! This is one of the most fantastic things I have read in a very long time. I need to print this out and take it to Ann! I think she would love it.
Kev ... I appreciate your saying that!
Andrew ... Thanks, son. I love you too.
Audrey ... You have my permission! Since you didn't get a chance to give anything to Johnny from me the last time you were in Chicago, I'll settle for you giving something from me to Ann the next time you're in Chicago! Seven weeks from tomorrow! YAY!
Gotta say, you wax
snideeloquent better than anyone I know.Standing ovation to you, ma'am.
Thanks, Angi! You're pretty good at that genre yourself!
Okay, well... if you're not going to say all that, I guess I can't comment on what you didn't say! I did want to say, did you see this article? Mighty interesting - I guess only the meanest will be protected because they might harm some one otherwise!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/21/wilders.netherlands.prosecution/index.html?eref=rss_world
I will say that I couldn't have said better, so much of what you waxed eloquently and passionately about herein. Media hypocrisy is currently at an all-time high over Obama and the acts of his party and surrogates.
I reckon a good deal of the voters who bought the hype will start to experience "voter remorse" in 6-9 months, and the media will ramp up to try to herd them back into line for the 2010 Congressional elections.
What should actually happen then...I can only hope...is the voters firmly reject Bela Pelosi et al, and turn that traitorous wench, Clueless Reid and the rest of them out of office.
We shall see.
@ Tracie ... girl, there was so much more I could have said, and you are welcome to opine here! I did not see that article and I thank you for the link. We are about to see a world intimidated by Islam and I believe we will see religious oppression in American on a much greater scale than we see it now. Free speech? HA! Mr. Obama will do his best to squelch the free speech rights of all but the most godless and most liberal.
@ SF ... Thanks, my friend ... that is a great compliment coming from you. I look forward as well to 2010 and beyond, to see if there are any true conservatives left in government. If not, we are in deep trouble. God help us. Love your "Bela Pelosi" ... LOLOL! Let's run her and Harry out on a rail.
I read quite recently something I've always believed, and that is that global warming is a perfectly natural phenomemon, and is to be expected every 15,000 years or so. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take care with the environment though. I also believe that our out-of-control carbon emissions and the pollution we produce in huge amounts on a daily basis is contributing - albeit in a much smaller way than politicians would have us believe - and in any case is very damaging to our fellow planet earth inhabitants.
So, yes, we should control it, and yes, I get upset with hypocrits, too. We have a politician here who was in charge of environmental issues and was known as 'Two Jags' because of his liking for fast, non-fuel-efficient cars which he would use in preference to public transport every time, and for quite short journeys, too.
I think we should never forget that we are custodians of this fair planet, and that we were granted dominion over the animal kingdom - to me that means acting in loco parentis. Taking CARE of our animal and plant life, the oceans and the wildernesses. Not just being selfish and doing whatever we like with them. ;)
@ Jay ... I agree with you that there is no excuse for egregious polluting and marring of the world we live in. It is when the environmentalist wackos come in and make the earth more important than its inhabitants, that it quickly spins out of control. We should take care of the environment to the extent that if we do, it will serve us better. That's what it's here for: to serve us ... not the reverse.
Yes, we are custodians of the earth, but the way a lot of the politicians and even environmentalists are advocating doing that seems actually quite harmful, and definitely expensive without much benefit. I have an old(ish) book that mentions the global COOLING "scare" of the 1970s! When their foundation is flawed, their results will be as well.
Tracie, good point. And I might add that all this "green" business IS a business ... and a multi-billion dollar one at that. While I do believe in conservation, recycling, cleaner air, and good stewardship of the Earth, I believe it should be done with common sense paramount. Don't forget that those who profit materially from the so-called "greening" of America cannot necessarily always be trusted to tell the truth.
Final thought on "global warming" and the environment: yes, responsible management is called for. But not by the "green" economy, which seeks billions of dollars in self-gratification at the expense of the rest of us, and all over a fraud that may make the Social Security ponzi scheme look like a bully stealing milk money, if not checked by responsible politicians. And there are few, if any, in the Democratic Party right now. Global warming is cyclical, geologic and solar-caused, and since 1998, we have gone into a cooling cycle, what with the Arctic and Antarctic ice building back to 1979 levels. But you don't hear any of that from AlGore and his hysterics-motivated mob of lying criminals and scammers.
A fraud is a fraud, and AlGore is poster-scum for the biggest fraud going into the 21st Century. And every politician who follows him should be impeached.
RESPONSIBLE politicians? That's a whopper of an oxymoron you used there, SF! LOLOL ...
If there is such a bird, he ain't gonna swoop down out of the Dem party, that's for sure. We of the GOP persuasion had better come up with a doozy of a candidate for the next election cycle, and fast. And you are so right about AlGore: what a miserable shyster! Lots of people and corporations (start with GE) are getting rich by, as you say, bullying the rest of us.
Global warming is a hoax, period.
send that to the papers !!! You are an amazing writer and this one has to be my favorite. I am sending this to Bo...he loves ammunition for his liberal lawyer friends.
By the way, you won't hear any of this on the night time news... if I were wealthy, I would buy a tv station just so you could sit there and say it all.
Dixie ... I like the TV station part, because I'd have to get all new clothes and I'd get paid for talking! You're right about the network news ... if you want the truth you have to listen to great Americans like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and others! Their courage inspires me.