Dear Mr. Claus,
Greetings and salutations! I am writing to you regarding something I would dearly love to have. I do not think it is that difficult or big of a request. I doubt it would take much room in your big bag of goodies. If you could see it in your heart to grant me my wish—I would be eternally grateful. All I am asking for is liberty, that’s all, just liberty. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for, that’s all I want—liberty.
Long, long ago the U.S. actually had a surplus of it. There was so much of it that people were just throwing it here and there and didn’t even care where they put it. Unfortunately, sometime in the past, lots of people gave it up in place of a little security. Didn’t Benjamin Franklin say something about liberty and safety and not deserving either? They gave it up long ago and now I don’t have any and would very much like to have some liberty of my own. I don’t think it is an unreasonable request; after all, I wasn’t around when they gave it up. No one asked me if I wanted to surrender liberty for security. I would have told them “NO! I want my liberty and you can’t have it!” I know that sounds a bit selfish, but liberty means a lot to me and I want some.
I have written to various politicians i.e.: senators, reps, the prez, mayor, etc. and no one has been able to grant my request. So instead of wasting my time writing to them, I have decided to write to someone else I do not believe in. I know it’s silly for a child to believe you will give them a choo-choo train since you do not exist. But it is just as silly for me to believe the state will give me liberty since it should not exist.
Sincerely,
Matthew Evans
P.S. Could you talk to the Easter Bunny about all the taxes I am paying?
P.S.S. Could you ask the Tooth Fairy when we will be allowed to smoke pot?
P.S.S.S. Would you mind sending Frosty-The-Snowman here and telling the “city leaders” to stop passing dumbass ordinances? Thanks!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
It Just Comes Naturally
It Just Comes Naturally
You ever tried to teach your dog not to sniff other dog’s butts? How about training your flowers not to produce pollen? What do you think would happen if you tried to teach your baby to not grow? Why would anyone attempt to teach these things? All of them are natural instincts and it just comes naturally.
That’s pretty much how things are between the Palestinians and Israel. These people have been fighting for the past 2,000 years. They are raised hating each other. Their boogey-man stories star each other as the boogey-man. It’s not a lizard man living under the young Palestinians bed—it’s a Jew! Bigfoot doesn’t live in the dark closet of the little Jewish boy—it’s a Palestinian! It makes one wonder if this 2,000 year old hatred has evolved into a hatred gene in these people. Frankly, the entire Middle East is a 2,000+ year old tinder box of religious rivalry and mutual distrust, which on occasion explodes into flames of clan warfare.
Both sides think their cause to be so just that they sacrifice their own lives and the lives of their children trying to prove it. Personally, I am not convinced of anything so assuredly that I would sacrifice the life of my child. I am, however, convinced of things so assuredly that I would protect their lives. Such as: if Obama and his buddy Rahm Emanuel (a Jew) have their way and force everyone 18 to 25 to attend a military style boot camp, we will leave this country. But I digress…
For several hundred years Israel did not exist. The Israel we know today was not established until 1948. When the displaced Jews began to move into what was commonly known at the time as Palestine, they literally removed non-Jews from their homes and moved Jews into them. What a messed up way to say “Honey I’m home!” Why not just move in next door? Eventually the Israeli government moved its own people out of the Gaza Strip and gave it to the Palestinians. Nice forward step, but Hamas continued their terrorism, so Israel felt they needed to create a blockade to prevent the terrorism, but all it succeeded in doing was preventing the Palestinians from leaving Gaza for work and/or supplies. The blockade caused such a hardship on the people of Gaza that Hamas retaliated by shooting mediocre missiles into Israel which resulted in the deaths of several Israelis. Now after tolerating the missiles for a while Israel has taken a rocket launcher to a knife fight, basically, and has been slaughtering the Palestinians. The Palestinians were wrong to kill innocent Israelis with their missiles, but Israel is just as wrong for herding them into Gaza and closing the cattle gate behind them. This is the same as shooting fish in a barrel.
Israel is one of the smallest countries in the Middle East, yet they gave up a large portion of land for the Palestinians to call their own. Where were the Arab nations when it came to offering the Palestinians a new home? Why didn’t Saudi Arabia, with its vast land mass offer a small portion to these people? Not only is there a fence between Israel and Gaza, there is one between Gaza and Egypt. The Egyptians don’t even want the Palestinians to enter their country. Why isn’t Hamas bombing Egypt? If nothing else, what about the old military policy of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”? Even if the Arab nations hate the Palestinians, they hate Israel more, help out the Palestinians just to shove it in the face of Israel.
The U.S. government has no business sticking its nose in this conflict or even having an opinion about who is right and who it wrong. The conflict has been going on long before English was even a language—so stay out of it!
You ever tried to teach your dog not to sniff other dog’s butts? How about training your flowers not to produce pollen? What do you think would happen if you tried to teach your baby to not grow? Why would anyone attempt to teach these things? All of them are natural instincts and it just comes naturally.
That’s pretty much how things are between the Palestinians and Israel. These people have been fighting for the past 2,000 years. They are raised hating each other. Their boogey-man stories star each other as the boogey-man. It’s not a lizard man living under the young Palestinians bed—it’s a Jew! Bigfoot doesn’t live in the dark closet of the little Jewish boy—it’s a Palestinian! It makes one wonder if this 2,000 year old hatred has evolved into a hatred gene in these people. Frankly, the entire Middle East is a 2,000+ year old tinder box of religious rivalry and mutual distrust, which on occasion explodes into flames of clan warfare.
Both sides think their cause to be so just that they sacrifice their own lives and the lives of their children trying to prove it. Personally, I am not convinced of anything so assuredly that I would sacrifice the life of my child. I am, however, convinced of things so assuredly that I would protect their lives. Such as: if Obama and his buddy Rahm Emanuel (a Jew) have their way and force everyone 18 to 25 to attend a military style boot camp, we will leave this country. But I digress…
For several hundred years Israel did not exist. The Israel we know today was not established until 1948. When the displaced Jews began to move into what was commonly known at the time as Palestine, they literally removed non-Jews from their homes and moved Jews into them. What a messed up way to say “Honey I’m home!” Why not just move in next door? Eventually the Israeli government moved its own people out of the Gaza Strip and gave it to the Palestinians. Nice forward step, but Hamas continued their terrorism, so Israel felt they needed to create a blockade to prevent the terrorism, but all it succeeded in doing was preventing the Palestinians from leaving Gaza for work and/or supplies. The blockade caused such a hardship on the people of Gaza that Hamas retaliated by shooting mediocre missiles into Israel which resulted in the deaths of several Israelis. Now after tolerating the missiles for a while Israel has taken a rocket launcher to a knife fight, basically, and has been slaughtering the Palestinians. The Palestinians were wrong to kill innocent Israelis with their missiles, but Israel is just as wrong for herding them into Gaza and closing the cattle gate behind them. This is the same as shooting fish in a barrel.
Israel is one of the smallest countries in the Middle East, yet they gave up a large portion of land for the Palestinians to call their own. Where were the Arab nations when it came to offering the Palestinians a new home? Why didn’t Saudi Arabia, with its vast land mass offer a small portion to these people? Not only is there a fence between Israel and Gaza, there is one between Gaza and Egypt. The Egyptians don’t even want the Palestinians to enter their country. Why isn’t Hamas bombing Egypt? If nothing else, what about the old military policy of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”? Even if the Arab nations hate the Palestinians, they hate Israel more, help out the Palestinians just to shove it in the face of Israel.
The U.S. government has no business sticking its nose in this conflict or even having an opinion about who is right and who it wrong. The conflict has been going on long before English was even a language—so stay out of it!
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