I get caught off guard yet again as I mumble to myself about the cow-pie-brained folks and Moira Breen overhears and I look up and everyone's trying to figure out whether to call the cops or the psych ward.

Well, for all of those who might be concerned that YOU are the target of my ranting about long-winded moronic twaddle, rest assured that you are the choir to whom I'm preaching. I get a lot of folks who stumble in here looking for newswoman p0rn and such, but those who come by regularly are a pretty levelheaded lot, at least judging by the letters I get.

Nope, who I was railing against were the addle-pated goofballs whose views of history have no basis in reality. There are the SA boys over on the far right, who although they know their history backwards and forwards, quote it the same way Satan quotes Scripture. Then there are the NKVD boys over on the far left who deny history ever existed and patiently carve rocks into wheels and curse us as we zip by in a car. After a while, it just gets awfully tiresome to try to discuss slavery reparations with someone who thinks the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, or Constitutional rights with someone who thinks our rights are granted us by our government.

So what do I do? Mostly I try to ignore this crap as much as possible in this forum and work on the spot where I think it will do the most good, namely my kids.

When I am long gone, there will be four more to take my place who at least have some basic idea that the promise of America--the idea that there are some truths which are self-evident, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"--is something all too rare in this world and a thing to be guarded jealously.

They will know that good men and women have bled an ocean of blood on behalf of those simple ideas--not for power or money or status--but for the notion that it is better to die free than live enslaved.
posted by Terry at 9:13:00 AM