I tried to watch Obama's speech on Patriotism, today on MSNBC. I don't know if FOX News carried it. I doubt it, but I could be wrong and have no intention on finding out. To me FOX News is irrelevant.
Anyway, I was able to catch part of it, but I had to do some errands and left the house after I heard Obama saying the following:
" Of course, precisely because America isn't perfect, precisely because our ideals constantly demand more from us, patriotism can never be defined as loyalty to any particular leader or government or policy. Ask Mark Twain, the greatest of American satirists and proud son of Missouri, once wrote, "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." We may hope that our leaders and our government stand up for our ideals, and there are many times in our history when that has occurred. But when our laws, our leaders or our government are out of alignment with our ideals, then the dissent of ordinary Americans may prove to be one of the truest expression of patriotism."
There is nothing I need to add to that. It would ruin it. It is so perfect the way he put it!
The only reason I wanted to use it on this blog is to remind my readers, if any, that some of us feel obliged to stick for one person because he was the one elected, regardless of how bad he is doing his job and how ridiculous we look vis a vis the entire world. Or we choose to support him and defend him because he is our Commander-in-Chief, but we forget that WE put him where he is, and we have the right to criticize him and disagree with him. We do not owe him anything, like we do not owe the party anything. WE OWE IT TO OUR COUNTRY. And because of that we dissent. We dissent because he has separated us. Left wing democrats and right wing republicans are fighting for their extremist ideals, while forgetting that the ideals of the common American are to have a united front, where the economy produces jobs; where a health care system takes care of us, of all of us, not only of those who can afford it; where we should have an affordable education structure for everyone without having to mortgage our lives forever; where a scientific research is not limited to concocting new drugs for the profit of pharmaceutical companies, but to develop a stem cell program that once and for all eradicates cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, and other killers; where there should come with an immediate plan to end the outrageous price of gas, such as working towards a new combustion alternative, to end this dependency on the little oil left in planet earth. (Oil is not corn, which you can grow every year. There is always less and less oil from the fossils of millions of years. ); and where we could improve our image in the world. NO, WE ARE NOT ALONE. We live in a planet of 6 to 7 billion people, and what we do affects everyone else. What we don't do affect us, more than anyone else.
But because this is a great country, we know it is going to turn around thanks to all the brave people that are fighting (intellectually) to cause this much needed change, not to be unpatriotic, according to many.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Thursday, June 28, 2007
THE GARDEN OF EVE, MY VERSION.
And then God said: This is really boring. I need to create something more exciting, something that does not act by instinct only. Something that eventually will develop into a free thinking being and does not need my supervision.
So, after deep self deliberation, he created Adam and Eve. These two were happy-go-lucky creatures, eating from the trees and the earth, and drinking from the rain, lakes and rivers. they had no need for clothes because they did not know yet about that and besides because fashion had not yet been invented.
Therefore, they roamed along their unfenced garden totally nude. Adam with his two lower bouncing and hanging protruding attachments ; and Eve with also her two, upper, eventually also hanging rounded assets (or liabilities).
Then one day God noticed that Adam and Eve were getting tired of each other and came up with a solution. It was not going to be a simple one as he decided that this would happen as as chain of events, kind of a suspense movie of Hitchcock proportions.
Thus, he brought into the picture a snake. a talking snake. A very conniving snake. This reptile started the ball rolling by offering an apple to Adam. That fruit contained Capital Sins, such as Lust, Envy and Greed, among others.
Adam fell for it. He took a bite of the apple...and...Shazam! There he was instantaneously staring at Eve's proportions and curves. The rest we all know.
What we did not know is why God, who had given names to these two human beings, neglected to assign one to the snake. But if you remember, the snake was actually the devil, disguised, of course. So God opted to leave the chore of naming the snake to Satan himself.
Satan, who also exercised his influence to write his own rebuttal of the Bible, waited 2007 years after the birth of Christ to assign a name to the snake. He had to be sure that he would not make a mistake and that he was choosing the most appropriate name for it. That is why it took him such a long time. But it was worth the wait, especially because the snake is still alive.
He named the snake...ANN COULTER.
And now we know for sure that God had nothing to do with it.
Note by the writer: You skinny bonny legs, bleached hair, unpleasant voice, frustrated snake, we finally know who you really are. You, in spite of the arrogance you display to hide that inferiority complex, you are that SNAKE!
So, after deep self deliberation, he created Adam and Eve. These two were happy-go-lucky creatures, eating from the trees and the earth, and drinking from the rain, lakes and rivers. they had no need for clothes because they did not know yet about that and besides because fashion had not yet been invented.
Therefore, they roamed along their unfenced garden totally nude. Adam with his two lower bouncing and hanging protruding attachments ; and Eve with also her two, upper, eventually also hanging rounded assets (or liabilities).
Then one day God noticed that Adam and Eve were getting tired of each other and came up with a solution. It was not going to be a simple one as he decided that this would happen as as chain of events, kind of a suspense movie of Hitchcock proportions.
Thus, he brought into the picture a snake. a talking snake. A very conniving snake. This reptile started the ball rolling by offering an apple to Adam. That fruit contained Capital Sins, such as Lust, Envy and Greed, among others.
Adam fell for it. He took a bite of the apple...and...Shazam! There he was instantaneously staring at Eve's proportions and curves. The rest we all know.
What we did not know is why God, who had given names to these two human beings, neglected to assign one to the snake. But if you remember, the snake was actually the devil, disguised, of course. So God opted to leave the chore of naming the snake to Satan himself.
Satan, who also exercised his influence to write his own rebuttal of the Bible, waited 2007 years after the birth of Christ to assign a name to the snake. He had to be sure that he would not make a mistake and that he was choosing the most appropriate name for it. That is why it took him such a long time. But it was worth the wait, especially because the snake is still alive.
He named the snake...ANN COULTER.
And now we know for sure that God had nothing to do with it.
Note by the writer: You skinny bonny legs, bleached hair, unpleasant voice, frustrated snake, we finally know who you really are. You, in spite of the arrogance you display to hide that inferiority complex, you are that SNAKE!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
