The Democrat Snowball

Seems to me that since the day after the mid-term elections last November there has just been one thing after another perpetrated by the Democrat party to hurry the decline of this country. I feel like an outsider looking in, as if from another planet, on this politically-motivated activity. If they’d only step outside of who they think they are and instead think like a proud American citizen and observe the demise of this country by way of self-serving policies and promises that have snowballed over the last three decades, but especially over the last three months. If only they would.

It seems the Democrats have found an even steeper hill for that self-serving snowball to roll down; in fact, they’re behind it, pushing it down faster. Don’t they know what happens when you push a snowball downhill? Eventually you trip and fall and, indeed, become swallowed up in the snowball as it grows and rolls out of control.

My mind’s picture of Nancy Pelosi and Robert Byrd sticking their heads and hands out of that rolling snowball, trying to escape, is the only thing about our country’s current state of affairs that makes me crack a smile. Unfortunately, the rest of us, too, will be inside the snowball that was the United States of America as it careens totally out of control to rest who knows where.

How Dare They?

How dare our state’s two senators insult my sons and every member of our military, not to mention put them in danger, by voting for a published troop withdrawal date? How dare they put me, as a citizen, in danger by virtually guaranteeing terrorists safe haven in Iraq to plan more attacks against the U.S.? How dare they do that to their own family members? How could they do that at all and still sleep at night?

How dare British higher-ups order their own military personnel to stand and watch as Iranians kidnap several of their own? How dare those same officials let time pass without demanding the hostages’ release – or else? I hate to think what the United States might have done if it had been our ship. I don’t think our president would have made the same decision had he been brought into the process quickly enough, but I tremble at the thought that he might have done the same thing.

How dare any official play politics with its military personnel who stand in harm’s way?

I Don't Like Daylight Saving Time

I don’t like daylight saving time.

I’m a morning person and each year just when the daylight hours are starting to get longer and the sun is starting to come up about the same time I get up in the mornings, Uncle has to go and move the clocks ahead an hour. So now I’m back to getting up in the dark again. What’s with that?

I don’t have little children to wake up in the dark and put on a school bus, but millions of people do. Putting a child on a school bus is bad enough, but doing it before dawn is just wrong.

The only thing I do like about daylight saving time is falling back to standard time at the other end of the calendar. It’s tough to go to bed early when it’s still light outside, and in mid summer when it’s light until past my bedtime, it’s not so easy to get to sleep. Back on standard time, it’s dark at a decent hour again.

Didn’t Ben Franklin say, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”? I like to think of Ben as an inventor, but when he thought up daylight saving time, he was behaving more like a politician.

God invented time, including sunup and sunset, and I liked it much better His way.

On our Calendar of Events

These sisters must have a great sense of humor. At least their announcement made me laugh!

3/30/2007
Soup and Cinema
Features home-made soup and sharing, plus a great way to meet several St. Scholastica sisters. March of the Penguins at 7 p.m. Lively discussion follows. 6 p.m. St. Scholastica Retreat Center.