Posted by
RedDot on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:56:08 AM
Before all else - check out the Eric & the Tygrrrr Express. A great couple of interviews recently with Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu and also Lt. Col. Bill cowan (from Fox News). Great stuff and a great blog - my saying so adds nothing to it but go there anyway.
I have some history in the south - not to mention some ancestry. My family on my paternal side were southerners then moved a bit north prior to "the war". Prior to, throughout and in some regards, following "Lincoln's War" there were key members of the family deeply involved in the propigation and sustenance of the underground railroad. I am proud of them.
I lived in the south for about 7 years. I learned a couple things. How to discern a yarn was one of them. Anything that speaks to the air without much dirt in it may well qualify. Platitudes make for great emotional content but they don't do much to fill the belly. And so forth.
Yarns can be amusing. Yarns, when spun by a huckster, can cost you time and money. Yarns are the special craft of many lawyers, lots of "journalists", a majority of (amateur) fishermen and almost ALL politicians.
Yanks are not generally highly regarded in the south because they are seen as being about the same species as politicians. They are thought of as not much fun, serious about life and leisure and hard intent upon convincing you their yarns are true. There are notable exceptions.
And, while interesting, even
herculean efforts (this would be cool in several movies), based on a faux-intellectual-yarning amount to nothing more than... well, nothing. There is so much bad science in the globo-eco-crisis-socialism-only-answer crowd that the humor is evaporating quckly - at the rate of several million dollars A DAY. Our money that.
No more Illinois Yanks (no offense Prarie Staters) yarning their way to the south lawn. I can't afford them. I might have to move to Kyoto and take up lake fishing.
We need Leadership. Substance - reality - practicality. Win the war. Secure the borders. Put your finger on Chavez' chest / Ahiminijaadio's robes / Jong-Il's vid library and give them a firm push. Get real with China.
Freedom to do right is much more precious than freedom to do what you want. Both go away without vigilance.