HEROES

Mackenzie presented us with a little surpise last Saturday. Mom and baby doing well...

It is 6:41 a.m. and 68.0 degrees out. Patrick is curled up on his afghan by my feet.

Listen up:

“[I]n Washington, D. C.,... a Victims of Communism Memorial will be dedicated... While the memorial is a welcome reminder of man’s capacity to do evil, one wishes that a similar structure were erected to remind the world of leftist academics, clergy and journalists who enabled communism to survive by writing and speaking lies about its true nature. They were more than enablers. They were co-conspirators and accessories to murder. They, too, deserve to share in communism’s ignominy.” —Cal Thomas

I added the emphasis. It is very rare indeed to hear this kind of courageous truth.

When I was a young activist anti-communist, I knew what communism was and what it did, but only because I read right-wing books and listened to religious right wing broadcasters like Billy Joe Hargis and had access to data gathered by the John Birch Society. In Florida, where I grew up, Seniors in High School were required to take a course entitled "Americanism vs. Communism". It wasn't taught by a liberal asshole, either. At Dunedin High School, it was taught by a retired US Army colonel. Can you believe that? Can you believe what would happen today if a state mandated a course entitled "Civilization vs. Jihadism?" Yeah, well I grew up in a different world.

Speaking of liberal teachers, I had a goofy professor in college that taught us a course on American Indian Culture. Even back then, the "in" thing for liberals was to portray Indians as cultural gurus, with their little fingers tapped into the wisdom of mother earth and inventors of democracy and Womens rights, etc. ad nauseum. This moron stated that Indians were truthful, wait, yes I know I've told you this before, and you didn't believe it then, but I like telling it. So, he stated that Indians COULD NOT LIE, because their LANGUAGE would not allow it. Huh? If your language has the word "No", you can lie. Nobody challenged him on it, either because they blindly agreed with him or they were afraid to stand up to him. Having been royally screwed by a liberal professor who knew me to be an activist right-winger, I held my counsel.

Of course, the truth is that the majority of North American Aboriginals were not nearly so noble. They lived in a stone age culture. They practiced primitive agriculture, and were primarily hunter-gatherers. They had no written language, no wheels, no permanent dwelling places. The lived in constant warfare with their neighbors and practiced torture with both their neighbors and as a tribal ritual.

See the thing is, there's nobody around to remind us of the murder and rape of white people by the nature-boys burning their cabins, or wagon trains...

There is no tragedy in the near annihilation of Indians on the North American continent. When savages get in the way of civilization and won't yield or assimilate, they get run over. What we need to do to the barbaric Muslims...

Rant ends. Trader Rick, exhausted, reaches for another breakfast beer.

GO GATORS!!