It's funny how the book "1984" has become prophetic. For instance now it is "politically correct" to be in a "constant state of War". This is accomplished by never showing a funeral or a casket or showing the President at a funeral. It's "understood" that you don't talk about death. Also since taxes were cut for this war instead of raised, the notion of "sacrifice" is gone. George Bush should feel proud of himself that the economy has done so well. Sometimes I like to "take my political temperature" and listen to Larry Elder. He points out what I've heard before that the poor in this country live better than middle class people in Europe do. According to Larry the average poor person owns his own home, has sattalite TV and air conditioning. Accordxing to Larry there is no "overcrowding" in quarters of the poor. I have seen direct contradiction of this with about ten Mexicans in a one bedroom apartment. But according to Larry Elder the poor are doing just great and that poor children are as well nourished as anybody else in this country. So on the surface George Bush appears to have had a major success with the economy. Of course in the book 1984 there are lines about how the government must maintain a perpetual state of warfare so that the poor do not advance economically because if the poor get a taste of prosperity, they will want political power, too. The goal seems to be to keep the poor ignorant and gullible and deny them education that might cause them to think critically. If this line of reasoning is correct then we should expect some sort of a REAL "Peoples' uprising" in China, where they have a taste of prosperity. "Party members" are supposed to also be rather dumb, but hopelessly zealous, who would do ANYTHING asked of them, for the Party.
Rush Limbaugh has stated as one of his goals "To have everyone in America agree with me". It would seem that Rush Limbaugh does not consider soldiers in Iraq "real" soldiers, unless they agree with him, and with the War. The whole idea of the all volenteer army is to get a bunch of mind numbed robots out there doing the fighting. Rush does have a point in that, "These people (for the most part) knew what they were getting into" and that if they re-inlist for a third or fourth tour of duty it must be because they Love It so much. To the rest of us it seems a horrible disruption of family life. It used to be that if you were going to be a father they wouldn't draft you. I don't see it as any badge of honor not to get to know your kid till he's ten.
There is this urge to rewrite history. They want to edit all the smoking scenes out of old movies they show. They edit the Twin Towers out of sitcoms that rerun. In Leave It To Beaver there was a big contraversy because they wanted to show a Toilet, heaven forbid. This was unacceptable. Michal Jackson often has said when he came to this country in 1963 they would not allow use of the word "Pregnant" on a soap opera. Now there is a contraversy on "Desperate Housewives" involving some line apparently spoken about either Philapino doctors or Philipino medical schools or something. They're going to edit out the offending line in reruns, but I still have no idea what the line is because they're so secretive they don't tell us. For that matter don't you get tired of the phrase "The N word". Why don't they just go ahead and say it. Of course you know they chopped down that offending tree where all the nuces were hung in that racial incident in Louisiana or wherever. To me seeing a big pile of mulch were the tree used to be would be more of a reminder of the event than if they'd just left the tree up.
I don't know about you but I'm getting a little tired of this steroids hysteria. In the case of Marian Jones- - since this is the Olympics we're talking about it's OK to make it an issue because they have certain stated rules of participation. But I'm tired of Barry Bonds being raked over the coals. Suppose we discover our heroes AREN'T perfect? What if we were to learn General Mc Arthur was on steroids in the battle of Inchon? Would that make what his troops did any less heroic? The media seems to have very definite ideas who it loves and who it hates. And the media hates Larry Craig. They are in a tizzy because he "broke his word" and didn't leave the Senate by September 30th. as he had promised. His exact words were, "It is my intention to leave congress by September 30th.". It wasn't a resignation. And it wasn't a covenent made in blood. It was just a remark. The Republicans want him "gone" for other reasons involving Craig's voting record. This whole idea about not being perfect could become obsessive. Of course if you listen to Dr. Laura, apparently every woman is entitled to marry a Perfect man. If you discover any flaws in him then you made a "horrible mistake", and next time find a man a little less- - - mortal. Some of the things the media obsesses on are really silly, like Senator Obama's American flag lapel pin. Not wearing it is supposed to be some sinnister sign of his abandoning patriotism, or something. Of course the obsession on hair styles and make-up of Hillary Clinton is something I find a little silly. It seems we bring up all these phoney balogna issues, as if there were no real, subatantive issues in the land to talk about.
Now the buzz is about this four year old little girl who is supposed to be a genious painting pictures in the tradition of Picasso or something, but they say "maybe she had help". Well, if she "had help" did Picasso come back from the dead to help her? Sylvia Browne had a "warning" for all of us, the comercials intoned promoting Wednesday's episode. Well not only was the episode a year old rerun, but it would seem that the "warning" was deleted. I never saw it. Well, I'll give you a warning if you want one. Hillary Clinton and not George Bush will go into the history books as the worst president since Herbert Hoover, because it will be under Mrs. Clinton that this economy collapses. It's also my belief that civil liberties in issues that really count will suffer, and that a lot of the things we don't like about President Bush will be traditions that Hillary chooses to continue. You need only to read World Net Daily to know that there is a war on Christianity out there, and its one entirely based on irrational fears of the left. But like so many things in this "1984" politically correct world, opposing religious liberty will become the "in" thing in American culture. Think about it when you vote in November 2008.
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