Just thinking out loud here ... outrageously and otherwise
Tony Blair is the best Prime Minister since Winston Churchill. His magnificent,
understated oratory gives Britain a role on the world’s stage far out of proportion to its
actual power.
The United States does not show enough appreciation for the friendship of Great Britain.
With or without Blair, England has always been the first to come to our aid and support
in any time of crisis, no matter its own domestic problems. Like your very best friend,
Britain comes to your side first and asks questions later. And G.B. does more than talk, it
puts its troops and planes where its mouth is. We’d better start showing more gratitude.
bin Laden looks to me like he has had collagen treatments on his lips. You have to give
it to him that he is very pretty.
Countries do have a national character. Britain never forgets what it historically owes the
United States. France never remembers. The Swiss couldn’t care less, unless money is
involved.
None of us will ever live long enough to see the day when the Middle East isn’t the
center of the world’s worst problems.
If the Arab nations weren’t sitting on rich oil deposits by geographical accident, they
would constitute the most impoverished, backward, and troublesome region of the world,
Africa notwithstanding.
As a people, Arabs are self-indulgent, self-absorbed, and immature ... the world’s
equivalent of unruly junior high students. They just won’t quit never growing up.
As to Major league baseball players ... see the above. Baseball itself has been ruined by
lavishing ridiculously big salaries on a bunch of whiners and quitters. Baseball players
are more spoiled than those poodles who wear pearl necklaces.
Do women really oppose violence? How come courtrooms are often packed with them,
flirting with serial killers/rapists? Why are they at boxing/wrestling matches, obviously
lusting for blood? How come so many stay with men who beat them? The female
psyche is very puzzling.
On the other hand, in all fairness, if any baseball team of today was to play the great
teams of the past. like the 1929 Yankees, the result would be a laughable rout of the Ruth
and Gehrig contingent.
Is Gary Condit now an official Missing Persons case?
Football has become totally indistinguishable from an electronic board game. Players
wear so much protective equipment that they look like battle-bots. Before long, team
rosters will number in the several hundreds, organized into dozens of “special teams.”
No individual player will know what the score is, or care.
I have to take people’s word for it that Islam is a religion of peace and good will. But I
can’t help wondering what it is about this one religion that has spawned so much hatred
and violence in its name.
As to football, basketball, soccer, and hockey ... give it up you wannabe sports. Baseball
will always be America’s national pastime and national sport. Baseball is the exquisite
representation of America: team play punctuated by highly suspenseful one-on-one
confrontations. And no violence.
More scary than the specter of terrorism for America’s future, is when we come to the
point where American flags cannot be displayed in offices and Christmas carols
celebrating peace and good will cannot be sung in classrooms, all in the interest of not
offending others.
America has leaned too far backwards to accommodate and respect everyone’s individual
preferences and beliefs. We are losing any sense of shared values. We are fast becoming
a nation of special interest groups, whether defined as by race, religion, politics,
ethnicity, sexual preference, gender, or whatever. Personal agendas are taking priority
over any kind of national consensus or feeling of community. We’d better do something
about about this before we become a country without a national character.
(Sigh) just thinking out loud. |
