Ovine bundling

With some old lyrics of Beyonce, whose wisdom is legendary, and which Rush tried to tie to the subject of gay marriage  --  "If you like it, you ought to be able to put a ring on it"  --  I am reminded of my faux marriage a few years ago to Fluffy, a sheep.  Apparently, legalized sodomy is coming full circle, with the president's blessing.

Do you suppose one of those colorful plastic bracelets the little girls like so much could serve as an ovine engagement/wedding ring combo?  Although Fluffy has left us, I saw a nice collection of wooly candidates in a nearby pasture.  In fact, those plastic tokens are so cheap, I could probably afford to be affianced to multiple mutton makers.  Or would that be too bin Laden of me?

Perhaps when those who can't pay the 32% cost increase mandated by "Affordable Healthcare," and those who are disposed of by the death panels are gone, someone will rescue marriage from the clutches of the coming Obama apocalpyse, and restore its original status as a loving, potentially procreative, rather than financial, personal relationship.

P.S.  Today's local newspaper has a recipe for leg of lamb.  I hope no one will fricassee one of my prospective stepchildren.

Sin

For a nation that was founded on Christian principles, I am astounded to see how much sin the U.S. government tolerates.  As a child, before I discovered the church choir, I was lectured liberally about sin.  .  .  those transgressions forbidden by, basically, the Ten Commandments, to which the politicians of today turn a blind eye, or of which they actively promote the violation.

Three glaring examples run amok:

1)  Thou shall not kill:  Millions of Christians believe killing the unborn is a sin, but the government says, "Sin if you like."  Then, there are those jurisdictions who feel the death penalty for crime is appropriate.  Don't forget the upcoming unelected commission under Obamacare which will implement his avowed desire to decide who should live or die.  Finally, the sight of several of the top U.S. leaders sitting in the situation room cheering on the cold-blooded assassination of another world leader was a low point in American history.

2)  Committing adultery:  From Bill Clinton on down to the lowliest Secret Service agent, the government winks at marital infidelity.

3)  Bearing  false witness:  Probably the most pervasive sinfulness is the continuous lying we get from so many politicians.  .  .  from the president on down.

Therefore, for those who trumpet the rhetorical separation of church and state, I would ask, "Why does that give the government the right to launch an attack on morality, and ignore the concept of sin?"  From the Pope on down, we want to know.

A new week

I just received the second issue of a year-long subscription to The Week.
I did not order this magazine, but I thank whoever did.  It resembles Time, but, so far, I haven't detected as much liberal bias.  The articles are concise and generally journalistic.  I will continue to give it a read, unless I receive a bill.  I hope the person who ordered it, under my no longer used (except here) nickname, didn't pay the $76 regular subscription fee.

REBEL:  If you find yourself on the east coast tomorrow, go cut off the head of that nosy New York banty-rooster, and pour a Big Gulp down his neck.  Then drive to Washington D.C., and demand to see any and all of those public buildings that were built by earlier citizens and are now being maintained by your taxes.  Finally, go find the president out on the golf course and tell him.  .  .  oh, what the hell, nobody can tell him anything.

A SKELETON walks into a bar.  He says to the bartender, "I'll have a beer.  .  .  and a mop."

Excerpt (as published)

"When Cynthia Tucker asserts that Georgia's [voter] ID law is 'odious,' and is meant 'to discourage, inconvenience and disenfranchise.  .  . voters of color,' she is prompted purely by her nagging racism.  [She also] quotes the Obama administration's assessment that 'in-person fraud at the ballot box is virtually non-existent.' 

"[She says] that the loss of early voting is somehow discriminatory, but I believe that good citizens.  .  .  make the effort to honor election day.  At my age, however, I appreciate being able to vote by absentee ballot, a format that Tucker overlooks in her zeal to excoriate whites, Republicans, Supreme Court Justice Scalia, and one allegedly racist sheriff, Jim Clark, long since dead.  If I were as racist as she, I might worry about illegal 'black and brown' immigrants contaminating mail-in ballots.  .  .  if fraud weren't 'virtually non-existent.'"