G’day – hope you had a happy Fourth and are possibly enjoying an extra day off on the 5th…!
It’s been a quiet weekend for us *xcept* for the sound effects wars that began in our neighborhood on Saturday night and continued well after midnight --- and I don’t know how long into Monday – because that’s when I’m still writing this!
Anyway – I’m glad in a cheerful way that the 4th Celebration does continue exuberantly… for we certainly have enough detractors to fill up the bleachers. People who apparently don’t care much for
Don’t get me wrong… I am still for the first amendment – which I feel like most of these churls don’t even grasp what we old ‘geezers’ are talking about. They’re pretty hep on the 2nd amendment because it has something to do with guns… and if there’s anything even coming close to restricting drugs or ‘mary-jane’ or whatever else they’re interested in consuming – well they begin to holler about somebody crimping their style with an unholy screech. But if we “older ones” begin to talk about being responsible citizens or cutting down on spending or anything else along those lines… “Saidy bar the door.” They don’t want to hear it – and they’d like a Constitutional convention to be sure their preferences are written into law (providing they don’t have to put out any $$$).
Well… it is Monday … and I’ve about had it up to here with those who complain but don’t do anything about it. As we review the history of those brave people who (for the most part) did risk lives, limbs and their “sacred honor” [To borrow a phrase from the Declaration] in the founding and protection of our Nation. – well… I guess there’s no law against ignorance except perhaps when it becomes ‘willful stupidity’ – rather like wounding yourself with firecrackers after being warned.
But I still don’t wish them ill – and that’s because I have an inkling of what ‘ill” is – Some years back I managed to scald my right forearm by thinking I could ‘sneak’ the cap off a hot automobile radiator and avoid getting hurt. I was wrong.
And for the most indelible time I can recall for several hours on a weekend when we were planning a trip to the beach, I can still remember the pain and inflammation (although –truth be told – it was not a *serious burn*) just seriously painful for more hours than I thought I could stand.
In those few hours I believe I got a clearer picture of what ‘hell’ must be like – and renewed my determination not only not to go there… but to do whatever I could to discourage others from going there. Those are memories long gone by – but even today not long forgotten. (Sometimes pain is really a friend when it warns you away from stuff like that.)
Well… enough… if I keep on pecking away…this may not even get on the blog – but I will give it an old college try.
Enjoyed having you along today… come back again Wednesday if you can. (J)
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
ATTACKS ON FREEDOM
Just a Minute: -- Library of Congress experts recently uncovered a hidden word under an attempted erasure in the original Declaration of Independence. Electronic imaging shows Thomas Jefferson must have tried to erase and substitute ‘subjects’ with ‘citizens’. Apparently he experienced a mistaken throwback in considering Colonists subjects to the King.
A Washington Post story noted West Virginia’s Senator Byrd’s said he was careful point out he’d served *with* several Presidents not *under* them; thus preserving the concept of three separate but equal branches of government which the current Administration seems bent on eroding.
On this day following the celebration of our nation’s birthday, it’s good to recall a portion of Emma Lazarus poem engraved on the pillar supporting the Statue of Liberty in
“"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Shall we not pray for renewed dedication for the fulfillment of that prayer.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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