The Fourth of July
July 3, 2011 Leave a comment
The star-spangled sky is having a birthday party, after hours. Batteries of anxious fireworks try hard to contain themselves while hiding in the bushes. Aluminum chairs, stiff legs unfolded, carefully situate themselves to view the cyclorama of America’s unfolding Birthday, any moment now…
Into the height of twilight, a single whistling flare finds its way up to center stage – KA-BOOM! The crowd whoops, rattled babies cry and children run to huddle on blankets at parent’s feet.
Swoosh-swoosh-swoosh, a hunting, hinting sizzling goes upward and then another and another. Silence is paused mid-air. A cork popping whisper and then KA-BOOM! KA-BOOM! KA-BA-BOOM! Elemental colors burst above the crowd: Reverberation Red, Winter White, Brilliant Blue, Gushing Green, Poised Purple, Sparkling Silver, Yackety Yellow, Gracious Gold, Outspoken Orange.
Garden Roman candles shoot stars, spinners and colored peonies, Summer Heat fountains erupt into splashing fiber optic light. Whistlers – Sky Highs, Whistler Chasers, Scream Dreamers, screech through the sky. Cannonade artillery shells and mortars, bombastic breath takers, shock the air waves. Atomic Thunder Lords pummel the ears of men and women, boys and girls, the young and old, black or white, echoing its thunderous proclamation: “Attention: Liberty and Justice for all.”
Ashes rain down. Apparitions, Spirits of the American Revolution, waft through clouds of sulfur smoke and then disappear until next year.
Heaven’s gazers are photographed. The popping flash bulb sky captures moments of wide-eyed wonderment.
The birthday party continues on the ground. Sparklers arcing on sticks, splash light onto the faces of slack-jawed kids. Smoke bombs fume, the fog making conversation sputter. Snakes coil out of their black dot cages. Bottle rockets shoot straight up defying gravity, fizzling seconds later. Cherry bombs and M-150s snap like bull whips everywhere.
Earlier today, there has been preparation for the birthday party. Parades canopied streets. Marching bands with bugle and drum marched in 1-2-3-4 cadence. Drums called “Rat-A Tat-Tat, Rat-A Tat-Tat” and fifes whistled Yankee Doodle and slow scotch. The Stars and Stripes marched to Sousa while Uncle Sam walking on stilts made children’s fingers and toes point.
Vets sworn to protect now present the Colors: Red, White & Blue. With alacrity caps are removed. Grandparents, Liberty’s Old Guard, stretch out tired legs from lawn chairs. They stand as the High Flyin’ Grand Old Flag passes by, liberty recognized in the woven tri-color fabric.
Pies, apple and blueberry, were swallowed ala mode. Picnics popped up in city parks. Lemonade soured some looks, smacked some lips, returned youth to some in a swallow. Potato sack races tripped up with laughter. Horseshoes were flung at neighbors. Old Glory was displayed on porches and draped on banisters, her stripes and stars unfurled for anyone who will look her way. Families gave way to each other for an afternoon.
We say, “America, you are beautiful, from sea to shining sea beautiful.” Every year we see your birthday smile, your youthful ear-to-ear grin revealing your dazzling braces. We also see the wear and tear on vets standing with tattered flags, wanting to pass the torch to a deserving generation.
America, each year we return to celebrate the beauty of your unbridled hope and your pragmatic ways. Tonight, especially, the dreams of many Americans will reignite and shoot skyward adding more dazzling light to the already blazing torch of Liberty: “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.” Ronald Reagan
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Cause and Effect: No Margin for Error
July 5, 2011 Leave a comment
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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/07/05/india-health-minister-calls-homosexuality-disease/?test=latestnews
Certainly the spread of HIV/AIDS in India, Africa, the US and throughout the world is, for the most part, due to unrestrained homosexual activity, activity promoted by the homosexual community. The proliferation of HIV/AIDS does not come from marginalization.
Yet, as seen in the above article, the Indian homosexual advocate Anjali Gopalan does not address the cause of HIV/AIDS. He, in instead, blames the homosexual’s supposed marginalization as the reason that HIV/AIDs treatments are not happening fast enough to keep pace with the unnatural sexual activity.
Anjali offers two points countering the health minister’s statement that homosexuality is an unnatural disease: the marginalization of the homosexual and the need for community building. He does not address, of course, the prevention of AIDS. Instead, Anjali deflects the problem on to others, seeking to shame them and to make them responsible for homosexuals not having HIV/AIDS treatments readily available. There is no mention by Anjali as to why the disease continues to be pervasive in the homosexual community.
News Flash: HIV/AIDS marginalizes people through its own destructive means. Social marginalization does not cause HIV/AIDS in a person. Lack of self control on the part of the homosexual causes the spread of HIV/AIDS. Does anyone not believe this?
Other than having received a tainted blood transfusion or having had sex with an unfaithful partner, HIV/AIDS is a self-induced disease. You do know this don’t you?
Further, homosexuality does not lend itself to community building and certainly not through the reproduction of its citizens. Homosexuality marginalizes its practitioners into a group which practices unnatural sex, apart from the rest of society. A community, diseased from within with homosexuality, will soon destroy itself, much like HIV/AIDS destroys the immune system of the one who has permitted it to come in.
The above article shows us once again that the homosexual community’s projection of its own lack of caring (consider the obvious transmission of AIDS from one person to the next) and its own need to feed its sense of self onto the healthy community is typical of narcissism.
You watch the news. Homosexuality gives nothing back to the community. It only demands and takes. An activist will tell us that will have “Diversity.” Diversity was around long before homosexual community took over its meaning. Diversity in the past was often used, with positive connotations, to mean a choice of options or variety. But the term has now been obfuscated to mean having homosexuality around as a good thing. Diversity now means a variety of what? Of sexual options? Of sexual partners? Of sexually transmitted diseases? Of mental and emotional illnesses?
Certainly a diseased diversity adds nothing of value to our community. Today, a “Diverse” community is one with homosexuals many of whom have HIV/AIDS – a horrible disease propagated over and over again by homosexuality itself, spread across a self-marginalizing group of people. These people were once part of a healthy community before they ever contracted HIV/AIDS, before they ever engaged in the act of homosexuality. We are told that this “Diversity” is a good thing by homosexual activists. (Accept it or be called a homophobe by their bullies).
Someone should tell Anjali that the spread of HIV/AIDS can be mitigated with the cessation of homosexual activity. In other words, stop doing what is unnatural, stop spreading the disease. Control yourself and stop blaming others.
Believing a lie only marginalizes truth and makes us a community of dupes.
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