by Hal Eaton » Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:23 pm
I've been gone too long from these pages. Have just finished all the boring details of getting a book published, the onset of dementia with both my wife and me, houseguests for this past week and more coming next week, so let me add a couple of musings regarding these posts:
1. I watch Fox News to keep my adrenaline flowing (it works). I often want to post a challenge for one of the almost-divine reporters/analysts/opinionaters to tell us just what would they would have done had they been in Obama's position when they sharply criticized his handling of Korea, Venezuela, Crimea/Ukraine, etc. Blame is easy; better solutions would have enamored them with public praise (which never happens). (The principle applies to posters herein.)
Just for fun: Al Jazeera interviewed Mel Brooks t'other night, and praised him for offering humorous but insightful critiques of racism, anti-Semitism, etc., via funny movies. The interviewer asked Mel what targets he would like to attack today. I honestly thought, "Tell 'em Fox News!" Believe it or not, Mel immediately said, "Fox News!"
2. With the widespread turmoil occasioned by Putin's action with Crimea and Ukraine, I wonder how many of you have a definitive remembrance of Ronald Reagan's action in the invasion of Grenada. Almost every one of Putin's arguments is paralleled by Reagan's explanation for the USA's bombing and invasion of that island. How quickly we forget! (And by the way, there were many casualties during our war-like action . . . including the bombing of a mental health hospital, with 22 fatalities among the patients.)
3. Noteworthy regarding Sarah Palin's attitudes regarding . . . anything:
During a "worship service" in her Baptist church in Alaska, she was appointed, divinely or otherwise, to be a leader of the political arm (one of the seven areas of domination sought by the New Apostolic Reformation). (That's the same outfit that sent several white preachers to Uganda, with resulted in the passage of laws which condemned homosexuality (and same-sex marriage). The original plan was to include the death penalty for participation in that nasty life-style, but was later reduced to life imprisonment. (Ever onward, ever upward . . .)
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. -- Thomas Paine