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If Aliens Attack?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | Politics | 3 Comments
I was listening to a program on television and they were talking about Oath Keepers. They are, from what I can gather, a group that believes they should have the right to carry concealed weapons. They seem to be recruiting police and former Armed Forces people and from what I heard they seem to be getting an Army.
If you don’t believe me look at their web site
This isn’t the only group that seems to be forgetting that our country is named the United States of America. I think that they should realize that it is exactly this unity that gives us our strength. Of late, the Birthers, the Oath Keepers, and a lot of our elected Republicans among others, seem to be suggesting that the Bible was wrong and a House divided against itself can stand.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think that one of America’s strengths is the fact that we encourage dissent but it is the after-effect that I am worried about. When I was growing up if you didn’t get the laws that you wanted you redoubled your efforts especially at election time.
The latest action seems to be that of the petulant child ” If I don’t get my way I’ll take my state and secede.” Which finally brings me to the point.
America is often called a melting pot and I think that we should revise that idea to being a stew pot . The gravy being the rich and they affect the majority and the minority. The other parts of the stew still retain their own ideas and customs but they are still part of the stew.
Even though we are separate we should be like a big family. I may talk about my brothers but don’t assume that you can. We should be working towards that idea.
I remember a television series called V that was about aliens that took over Earth. While there were a few humans that sided with the aliens; the majority fought side by side with their fellow humans despite religion, creed, skin color to defeat these invaders. Maybe the SyFy channel should run the series again.
Nothing Succeeds Like Secession
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Diplomacy, Politics | No Comments
The recent talk about Texas seceding from the Union made me think about the good it would bring about. The first question would naturally be why didn’t they think about this when George Bush was governor (Did I really use the word think and George Bush in the same sentence? Shame on me!)
Now don’t get me wrong I don’t want to lose Texas from the Union. If we did where would I get my Texas Toast? I know that in reality we would never let Texas secede. We more or less settled the secession question with that little Civil War thing.
Does Texas realize that it has the largest border with Mexico of any of our states. With the lack of Federal funds to help them they might as well change the name of El Paso to Ellis Island and avoid that bothersome fence building. Do the Texans really believe that Mexico will honor their borders? I know that Texas won their independence from Mexico but in all fairness it was with the help of lots of Americans, both Houston and Austin were born in Virginia. I’m not so sure that the Mexicans have gotten over losing Texas and they may want it back. By seceding, Texas would be a separate country responsible for its own defense. This might be something to think about when you consider that they can see Mexico from their door step.