God Bless America
One president gets a blowjob and is impeached by Congress. Another president fabricates a crisis to start an unwinable war. All he gets is a non-binding resolution from Congress to stop.
God Bless America. I really mean that.
A friend told me yesterday to buy corn futures because a friend of his told him that the Bush family was now investing in alternative energy sources. His friend said he got that information from the Internet.
At a Christmas party with people I didn’t know, one fellow told me that he lost his job because of Homeland Security (ergo: the 9/11 conspiracy). He had been a dynamite truck driver who, following a minor stroke, had lost vision in one eye. Homeland Security, he said, took away his hazardous materials transport driver’s license for no good reason. Later on that same evening the strapping angry ex-truck driver invited me out back to smoke a joint with him.
God Bless America. I really mean that.
The Federal Reserve is in cahoots with foreigners to ruin the economy of the United States. The Reserve is whimsically printing dollar bills that have no value to make it appear that we are all better off than we really are. To me it looks like most of us are doing reasonably well, but that may be just an illusion created by the World Bank and the Federal Reserve to throw me off.
The stock market people must be in on the financial conspiracy, it’s reaching all-time highs just about everyday; giving me a false sense of security.
God Bless America. I really mean that.
I’m told that honest hard working people, through no faults of their own, are losing their homes to unscrupulous and greedy financial institutions. It seems these folk bought adjustable rate mortgages and the Shylocks are adjusting the rates – up!
Young men and women, who joined the National Guard solely to get the benefits, are now being told that the rifle they were issued when they joined is part of the whole package. I guess, like those being foreclosed upon, the young guardsmen didn’t read the fine print.
God Bless America. I really mean that.
The monolithic corporations of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s are firing workers right and left. Machines are replacing those hard working Americans - a process that started in 1779 in London when Richard Arkwright sold two textile-manufacturing machines to the Smythe Carding and Fulling Mill as replacement for Ned Ludd and his brother. Someone should have seen this industrial revolution coming. They must have been asleep at the lathe.
Doctors are conspiring with hospitals and drug companies to get every penny they can from our elderly. Doctors are trained to treat sickness not in how to keep us well; hospitals take care of us as long as our money holds out; and the drug companies do not want us to know about Black Cohosh, Echinacea, Ephedra, Ginkgo, St. John's Wort, and all the other alternative medicines sold over-the-counter at Walgreen’s. I wonder who is behind all this?
God Bless America. I really mean that.
And, what about the liberal media? Or is it the conservative media? I forget. Rush Limbaugh, Bryan Williams, Larry King, Wolfe Blitzer, Bill O’Reilly, B. B. King, Jon Stewart, Tim Russert, Homer Simpson, Penn and Teller, Katie Couric, all the gay people on TV, Oprah, and Montel Williams? Are they all a part of some grand conspiracy to undermine the American way?
Speaking of the American way, where did all those Muslims and Mexicans come from? It used to be you could pronounce the name of everyone in the neighborhood. Not any more. And what about church? There used to be Protestants, Catholics, a few Jews, and some Holy Rollers. Now there are community churches with no affiliation, karaoke praise services, Christians who don’t believe in Jesus and non-Christian New Agers who do. It’s hard to find a group to beat up on these days.
God Bless America. I really mean that.
For more writings, music, videos, and opinions: www.larrywomack.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Larry,
Your blog entry is a wonderful assessment of life in America with warts and all. Human nature happens – in this country and all other countries. Unfortunately, human nature includes mankind’s tendency to live for self – including the use of deception, dishonesty, and greed. America’s founding fathers with their solid knowledge of the Bible (God’s owner’s manual for mankind), fully understood this reality of human nature. That is why they built in so many checks and balances into our unique Constitutional form of government. Today over 200 years later, despite mankind’s human nature, - America has not only survived but thrived while other countries have fallen to the wayside or succumbed to dictatorships where only the privileged few have decent lives.
Winston Churchill’s famous quote is still as relevant today as it was 50+ years ago:
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others..."
God bless America. Richard Taylor
Larry,
You give some good examples of how snide some segments of our society have become. (Note the word some.)
As Richard stated, "human nature happens". Fortunately, it happens in the midst of strong, loyal, determined citizens who work hard to keep the blocks of America's foundation firmly in place.
God Bless America!
Oh my God! The man has a real blog now! The net will never be the same.
Larry, your thoughts are always provoking. I went to that war rally last week in DC. Pretty cool and plenty of pictures. One thing about democracy that is good is that we are suppossed to be able to do things like that. Interesting thing is that when I came home and listened to talk radio, they pointed out the sensational stories that i never even saw myself. One where someone was spraypainting the Capitol (they apparently had a section marked off on the street whereas they could spray words) and another was where some protestors spat on a war vet. I found it to be completely peaceful, unified and respectful. I have myriads of pictures of police officers doing nothing.
God Bless America...
Post a Comment