Mr. Smith Goes Local
March 8, 2011 Leave a comment
Sadly lacking in our Republic:
The town square, the front porch, the square dance, the ice cream social, the church/town picnic…the three legged race.
Fever Pitch
February 24, 2011 Leave a comment
Demonstrative differences,
Placard positions held
Above eyes that do not see and
Ears that do not hear,
Become the Rhetoric of Pressure:
“We demand you recognize the truth of power.”
(Denigrating innuendo,
Self-serving solipsism
And proprietary ‘truth’,
Private property of the affixed,
Morphs into murder when
Scoped long enough.)
Folded arms –
The versus-versus of “WE”
/Block /“THEM” out.
*****
Tempest aside,
Demonstrative differences
Converge into community (> us v. them),
When the will to want truth
(Truth, as opposed to what my peers let me get away with saying)
Is also the will to embrace the other –
As “members one of another”
We “speak truth to our neighbor”.
Example given:
A demonstration of truth-love,
Fever pitched –
A baby, this Jesus, Son of Mary.
A Witness to what He has seen, to what He has heard
Of the Father.
© Sally Paradise, 2011, All Rights Reserved
Just A Small Slice of Cheese-Head Life
February 19, 2011 Leave a comment
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has demanded that state workers contribute roughly 5.8 percent of their wages toward their retirement. He wants them to pay for 12 percent of their health-care premiums. Those modest employee contributions would be the envy of many workers in the private sector. “
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-union-20110217,0,2260656,print.story
Pajamas Media » A Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim
February 17, 2011 Leave a comment
“Just ponder how a third-rate community organizer — from the most incestuously corrupt political region in the U.S.; with a record of participation in the most vulgar gathering of Jeremiah Wright posing as a reverend, spouting Fanonian rhetoric and bigotry; with mentors such as the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers; channelling the teachings of Saul Alinsky and Rashid Khalidi of the Chomsky school of self-loathing and sophistry — could advance through the ranks of American politics at an astounding speed, with little or no record of experience in government, to become the 44th president. In one of my columns from 2008 for the Sun Media in Canada, I had written in disbelief, as I watched the primaries unfold, of how American voters could be so beguiled by a charlatan of the Harold Hill type from The Music Man and vote for Obama. I was wrong in my overestimation of reason and experience among American voters as a check on the naivete of the university crowd and the duplicity of Lenin’s “useful idiots” in free societies. One of the lessons from 2008, for me, is this: how can I now scold Egyptians for wanting freedom and democracy behind the banners of the Muslim Brotherhood when their experience with electoral politics is negligible, and their history of 7,000 years offer little guidance for what freedom requires — respect for the other and not mistaking freedom for licentiousness?”
Salim Mansur
Listen Up Chicago
February 5, 2011 Leave a comment
What is the difference between the passengers of the Titanic and Illinois voters?
The passengers of the Titanic didn’t vote to hit the iceberg.
(from a listener calling into the Bruce Wolf & Dan Proft radio program):
Bruce Wolf & Dan Proft
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
(I listen to these guys every Saturday while running errands. They are funny and informative.)
Take a listen.
(January 22, 2011 podcast topics include Keith Oberlmann, The Super Bowl, American Idol, Rahm Emmauel and Amy Chua.)
2014 SOTU Check List:
January 26, 2011 Leave a comment
2014 SOTU Check List:
–Obamacare (the voodoo remedy for healthcare) is repealed and replaced.
– Tim Pawlenty is President, Mitch Daniels is VP. Sarah Palin is homeland ambassador. Her role is ambassador to America for America. Newt Gingrich is presidential advisor. I would be spiritual advisor (I would pray a lot.)
-Democratic senators like Dick “Land of Lincoln Liberal” Durbin are removed from office.
–Illinois is replaced with Indiana.
-Rahm Emanuel has found a job as talk show co-host with Ron Reagan for Air America (now defunct).
-Big government spending is replaced with individual spending.
-Teleprompters are replaced with people of substance.
Help me add to the list….
What, No Government Assistance?! No Obamacare?!
January 18, 2011 Leave a comment
This 107 year-old man should be a U.S. senator!
Illinois Exit Ramp Flooded with Fleeing Taxpayers
January 9, 2011 Leave a comment
Dollar hungry Democrats are plotting to raise Illinois taxes by 75% from 3% to 5.25% (the personal income tax rate). It’s time to leave the Land of Lincoln.
I’ve had enough of Illinois and Illinois Democrats (Quinn, Blago, Dick Durbin, the Madigans, Mayor Daley and God help us, Rahm Emanuel, if he takes over Chicago as Mayor). I’ve had enough. I’ve lived here in Illinois all my life. It’s time to go live somewhere else. Indiana wants me.
