Curtis Dahlgren
When men were men, women were women, and the opposition was loyal
By Curtis Dahlgren
I AM WRITING THIS COLUMN "INADVERTENTLY." Pardon me in advance, but if anyone were to be "offended" by this, I will just call it an "honest mistake" or "sloppiness."
No, actually I'm writing this on purpose, as if words still mean something, and Honesty is the best Policy, as Franklin once so quaintly put it. These days, the Founding Fathers are only held in contempt by our Cultural Revolutionaries of course. I won't call them Girly Men, because Arnold already did that, but even I can see that Senator Kerry is "no JFK"!
"Honesty" is now just one of those "old-fashioned" words that has become useless unless it is focus group tested — words such as morality, virtue, and values (or even "smuggling"?). And our word for today, boys and girls, is ENVY!
What does envy have to do with current events and the powers-that-be? Well, as Moses' father-in-law advised, "Select out of all the people able men such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness." But why? Because men without truth are invariably intoxicated with even a little bit of power, and, with a lot of power, become absolutely "drenched."
My trusty '38 Funk & Wagnalls says, "Figuratively, we may speak of a persecutor as drunk with blood, or of a conqueror as intoxicated with success." The word intoxicated and its synonyms would be another interesting study, but let's first dissect the words envy and covetousness.
In the Hebrew (Exodus 18:21), covetousness has the sense of plundering for dishonest gain (as in "plundering the taxpayers"), and the English roots of "covetousness" and "cupidity" are linked, as if the lusts for power and ill-gotten gain are as extreme as adulterous sexual desires (they do seem to go together)!
Envy is a word of the deepest of meanings, penetrating to the heart and soul of man. It is one of those words such as "sin" and "evil" which the deconstructionists of the English language wish would just go away.
FUNK & WAGNALLS: envy, v;
The raw hatred toward the latter shocked and puzzled me until I did this study of the word envy. Never minding the stock sale, 99 percent of Martha's career has been devoted to productively beneficial goals. She would be hated, of course, by the holdovers from the 70s, the radical Feminazis who have a fierce contempt for anyone they define as a "super woman" (known to my generation as a Homemaker).
Bottom line, sadly, many decent "conservative Democrat" voters have become unwitting allies of these Cultural Revolutionaries, because they too see public affairs as mostly an attempt to get even with the most successful class of people among us. In 1867, a preacher named South said, "As for covetousness . . . it is the first vice in corrupt [human] nature [to arise] and it is the last which dies."
The dictionary defines covet as, "to have an inordinate or unlawful desire for; lust after, as, to covet after riches" [someone else's riches]! No wonder certain people keep talking about the [mythical] "tax breaks for the most wealthy among us"! These people will probably throw orgy parties if Martha Stewart ever goes to prison.
During the 90s, the POTUS spent more energy pursuing a Monica and Mr. Bill Gates than Osama Bin Laden (through "legal channels" only). As for the 9/11 Commission findings and the other newsmaker of the week, Sandy Berger, we should be wondering, what was so vitally important about those Top Secret papers that were smuggled out of the National Archives? Was he suffering a hangover from the intoxication of 90s power when he bothered to stuff them into his pants? And, why don't we declassify them to find out why he was so interested in them?
Yes, as Benjamin Franklin said, "Honesty is the best policy," even for those who are so self-absorbed that the first word in the title of their books is MY. That's why the first three words in the title of my book are NO MORE BULL. It will be released about the same time as the Democrat convention. I only mention this, because "who was the leaker" became a bigger issue in the media than the question, "What was in those papers?" The "timing" of "my" book was an uncontrollable coincidence, but as Jeremiah once said:
"You have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord? Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not [sinned]. In the way have you 'sat' for them as the Arabian in the wilderness and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and with your wickedness . . . "
By the way, Microsoft Word doesn't even recognize whoredoms and wickedness as actual words! That just goes to show you that not all the "pollution" in America comes from Big Business; a lot of it comes from the pornographers and out of the mouths of our disloyal politicians.
Excuse me, but a latter day Columbo, somewhere, ought to ask Senator Kerry this question: "If you had been on that highjacked airliner over Pennsylvania on 9/11, how would you have voted on resisting the terrorists?" Perhaps he would have flip-flopped, and there would no longer be a White House to run for!
With apologies for the thought, and the dangling preposition.
© Curtis Dahlgren
I AM WRITING THIS COLUMN "INADVERTENTLY." Pardon me in advance, but if anyone were to be "offended" by this, I will just call it an "honest mistake" or "sloppiness."
No, actually I'm writing this on purpose, as if words still mean something, and Honesty is the best Policy, as Franklin once so quaintly put it. These days, the Founding Fathers are only held in contempt by our Cultural Revolutionaries of course. I won't call them Girly Men, because Arnold already did that, but even I can see that Senator Kerry is "no JFK"!
"Honesty" is now just one of those "old-fashioned" words that has become useless unless it is focus group tested — words such as morality, virtue, and values (or even "smuggling"?). And our word for today, boys and girls, is ENVY!
What does envy have to do with current events and the powers-that-be? Well, as Moses' father-in-law advised, "Select out of all the people able men such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness." But why? Because men without truth are invariably intoxicated with even a little bit of power, and, with a lot of power, become absolutely "drenched."
My trusty '38 Funk & Wagnalls says, "Figuratively, we may speak of a persecutor as drunk with blood, or of a conqueror as intoxicated with success." The word intoxicated and its synonyms would be another interesting study, but let's first dissect the words envy and covetousness.
In the Hebrew (Exodus 18:21), covetousness has the sense of plundering for dishonest gain (as in "plundering the taxpayers"), and the English roots of "covetousness" and "cupidity" are linked, as if the lusts for power and ill-gotten gain are as extreme as adulterous sexual desires (they do seem to go together)!
Envy is a word of the deepest of meanings, penetrating to the heart and soul of man. It is one of those words such as "sin" and "evil" which the deconstructionists of the English language wish would just go away.
FUNK & WAGNALLS: envy, v;
- to have unfriendly feelings toward, on account of desiring what one possesses [especially, perhaps, the power that another possesses]
- to covet with ill will
- to long after
- to injure
- to hate, oppose (with malice)
- odium, ill will, hatred [odium comes from Latin for "hatred" and it includes "disgrace or infamy brought on by hateful action, plus approbrium (disgrace, reproach, and ignominy)]
(noun)
The raw hatred toward the latter shocked and puzzled me until I did this study of the word envy. Never minding the stock sale, 99 percent of Martha's career has been devoted to productively beneficial goals. She would be hated, of course, by the holdovers from the 70s, the radical Feminazis who have a fierce contempt for anyone they define as a "super woman" (known to my generation as a Homemaker).
Bottom line, sadly, many decent "conservative Democrat" voters have become unwitting allies of these Cultural Revolutionaries, because they too see public affairs as mostly an attempt to get even with the most successful class of people among us. In 1867, a preacher named South said, "As for covetousness . . . it is the first vice in corrupt [human] nature [to arise] and it is the last which dies."
The dictionary defines covet as, "to have an inordinate or unlawful desire for; lust after, as, to covet after riches" [someone else's riches]! No wonder certain people keep talking about the [mythical] "tax breaks for the most wealthy among us"! These people will probably throw orgy parties if Martha Stewart ever goes to prison.
During the 90s, the POTUS spent more energy pursuing a Monica and Mr. Bill Gates than Osama Bin Laden (through "legal channels" only). As for the 9/11 Commission findings and the other newsmaker of the week, Sandy Berger, we should be wondering, what was so vitally important about those Top Secret papers that were smuggled out of the National Archives? Was he suffering a hangover from the intoxication of 90s power when he bothered to stuff them into his pants? And, why don't we declassify them to find out why he was so interested in them?
Yes, as Benjamin Franklin said, "Honesty is the best policy," even for those who are so self-absorbed that the first word in the title of their books is MY. That's why the first three words in the title of my book are NO MORE BULL. It will be released about the same time as the Democrat convention. I only mention this, because "who was the leaker" became a bigger issue in the media than the question, "What was in those papers?" The "timing" of "my" book was an uncontrollable coincidence, but as Jeremiah once said:
"You have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord? Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not [sinned]. In the way have you 'sat' for them as the Arabian in the wilderness and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and with your wickedness . . . "
By the way, Microsoft Word doesn't even recognize whoredoms and wickedness as actual words! That just goes to show you that not all the "pollution" in America comes from Big Business; a lot of it comes from the pornographers and out of the mouths of our disloyal politicians.
Excuse me, but a latter day Columbo, somewhere, ought to ask Senator Kerry this question: "If you had been on that highjacked airliner over Pennsylvania on 9/11, how would you have voted on resisting the terrorists?" Perhaps he would have flip-flopped, and there would no longer be a White House to run for!
With apologies for the thought, and the dangling preposition.
© Curtis Dahlgren
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