I Appreciate
Many decades ago a British subject took an interest in muslim tribes of Arabia. He was Lawrence of Arabia. His quest was to unify the many Arab tribes into a nation. He failed.
Today we have Bush of Iraq trying to do the same thing and it looks like he is having even less success than Lawrence did many decades ago. I guess lack of success is failure and failure is failure regardless of degree or circumstance.
Several months ago we discovered that feeling passionately about something or trying very, very, very, very, very, very hard is no substitute for success. If you don’t succeed then you fail and no amount of spin is going to change that.
Sometimes even students of history repeat past mistakes because recorded history is usually written by politicians and may not resemble the reality of what happened and why.
So we have a very appreciative leader showing a very unappreciative appreciation for histories past mistakes.
I can appreciate that.
What I can’t appreciate could fill a volume and is better submitted as a list.
1. I don’t appreciate Republicans parading as conservatives only to be found out to be liberals.
2. I don’t appreciate RINOs growing government.
3. I don’t appreciate RINOs claiming not to be interested in ‘Nation Building’ before election only to invade a nation after election to try their hand at nation building.
4. I don’t appreciated growing government by creating homeland security to pick up where the defense department failed. One or the other but not both. Fist we need to know why the Defense Department failed to defend us and fix that. Now we have two government agencies to abuse the purpose of their existence. When they fail we have twice the problem and more than twice the expense and taxpayer burden.
5. I don’t appreciate government spending with no sign of responsibility.
6. I don’t appreciate bi-partisanship. I think it is giving in to the opposition.
7. I don’t appreciate pardoning 12 million criminals and accepting them as citizens.
8. I don’t appreciate welcoming invaders as ‘Guest Workers’.
9. I don’t appreciate open borders.
10. I don’t appreciate bestowing rights of citizenship on our enemies.
11. I don’t appreciate claims that something we are doing is preventing something that did not happen. That kind of reasoning is the height of absurdity. It is right up there with claims of ‘I did not inhale’.
12. I don’t appreciate political correctness. Mainly because it allows the people who are ALWAYS wrong to decide what is right.
13. I don’t appreciate affirmative action unless it works to my advantage.
14. I don’t appreciate people who benefit from the misery of others.
15. I don’t appreciate not being able to vote for candidates whos names never make it to the ballot.
16. I don’t appreciate people who accuse others of the evil they, themselves do.
17. I don’t appreciate people who are so obsessed with a show of compassion that they are willing to become immoral and corrupt to make the evil doers feel better about themselves.
18. I don’t appreciate people who claim to have an appreciation when it is perfectly obvious that they have no idea, knowledge, or understanding of the topic being discussed.
19. I don’t appreciate office holders who take oaths to uphold the constitution and our laws only to see them ignore their responsibility to do so.
20. I don’t appreciate people who are obviously immoral lecturing others on morality.
21. I don’t appreciate the subtlety of spin. A lie is a lie is a lie.
22. I don’t appreciate people claiming ‘all men are created equal’. If that were true there would be much less conflict and competition. All men should have equal rights. Only fools worship the sanctity of a falsehood by calling it faith.
23. I don’t appreciate evil doers hiding behind priestly robes.
24. I don’t appreciate government stealing property and calling it eminent domain. Such action needs to be met by eminent revolution.
25. I don’t appreciate the worst of the crooked politicians claiming that by taking the money out of politics they attain higher moral performance. If you don’t have a moral compass before becoming politically involved, you are not going to find it as a politician regardless of how much money you take out of campaigning.
26. I don’t appreciate politicians telling me to ‘do as I say, don’t do as I do.’
When you look at that long list, you really have to ask how we got to this point.
Some of the more religious wonder if the end times are upon us. With things this bad, surely the second coming is not far off.
I suspect that the second coming occurred centuries ago. That we are the ones who descended from those who were left behind.