Curtis Dahlgren
It's hard to look cool when you're sitting on a manure spreader * (pls fwd)
By Curtis Dahlgren
"Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization." – Churchill
POLITICS! The juxtaposition of opposites. Defying description, sanity, and analogies. Stretching the limits of plausibility, impossibility, and fantasy. Separating the image from the actuality.
In the age of TV, just try to look cool and keep your mouth shut as much as possible? Speaking of word-pictures, there's nothing "crazier" than a nervous house fly. Sure he's paranoid, but he should be! You there with swatter in hand; he crouched down like a sprinter waiting for the gun to go off. And then – strike! Another swing and a miss.
As an aside, my mother used to laugh when she heard "a swing and a miss"; she pictured a "miss" swinging on a swing. Women are from Venus, but she would have made a good White House correspondent; she was the master of The Dumb Question. And she would be surprised that no one calls a miss a "Miss" anymore (that's been a verboten word since about the time Nixon left the White House). Girls are now called a "child" – to age 26 – or a "Ms.," a term I'm still not used to.
By the way, I'm so old-fashioned that as a kid I used to drive horses to spread manure that I had pitched by hand. How's that for a word-picture? Sitting downwind from two gas-emitting horses – and sitting over cow manure. In defense of cows, I must say that cow gas is nothing compared to horse gas, quantity-wise.
Those enviro-mentalists must be on methane themselves. Juiced. They blame cow gas for everything that goes wrong in the world, but there are probably more deer and antelope, more moose, elk, and caribou in this country than cows, right? Not to mention seven billion people breathing out carbon dioxide (it's good for plants).
I'm so old I can remember when Mc Donald's had only sold "Hundreds and hundreds" of hamburgers, not billions, and I can't fathom a trillion (let alone 18 trillion in debt). Modern studies about food were a pet peeve for my mother. One Dumb Question: "Who says that butter is bad for your health?" Turns out she was spot-on as usual. Science now has to eat crow along with the buttered popcorn. Eggs, and salt on your eggs, won't hurt you either, but don't make a habit of crow. It's bad for your gizzard and credibility, new studies claim.
*Well, that's my column for today. I was distracted by a house fly, but there must be some lessons in there somewhere. As the Boy Scouts now say: "Be prepared. For anything!" The title of this column was inspired by Roger Pond's book "It's hard to look cool when your car's full of sheep; tales from the back 40." I figured it would "catch your eye."
P.S. Seriously folks, Winston Churchill had a point about "the future of Christian civilization." My parents were born in 1900 and 1901 and saw a lot of history. My mother was intrigued by the prophecy "They shall speak lies at one table." If she came back today, she would probably be asking the following BIG Dumb Questions:
- WHO SAYS that climate is our biggest challenge?
- We're promising the Arabs 1967 borders, and we made a deal with Iran?
- Why is the world helping pay for their bomb? Such a deal; why wouldn't Iran sign it?
- Islamist terror? How many "lone wolves" does it take to make a pack?
- Are Sunnis and Shiites killing each other "peacefully"?
- Borders? Why should we be the only country in the world with an open border?
- If we went to Mexico, would they leave the light on for US?
- If the invasion came from the north, would opponents still be called xenophobes?
- Our national debt is HOW MUCH??
- Who says the earth is warming up?
- WHO SAYS the seas are rising?
- And, why did Al Gore buy a home on the beach?
PPS: A recent news item said that the Park Service is predicting that the seas are going to rise THREE FEET. "'Every little bit helps,' said the mosquito when he peed in the ocean," my grandmother used to say. But REALLY, how many gallons of water would it take to raise sea level even one INCH? Has anyone ever done the math? Only a fraction of the earth is land mass, and only a fraction of that has ice or snow on it. The ice floating on the seas is a moot point, since its mass is the same, solid or liquid (melting icebergs don't raise water levels).
The Alar scare was a scam. The ozone hole "problem" got managed. How do you know global warming isn't a scam? We know so little for sure that a bit of warming might be a good thing! Check out Rush Limbaugh.com and climatedepot.com. Also, you might google "The eight stages of genocide." [More to come.]
© Curtis Dahlgren
July 22, 2015
"Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization." – Churchill
POLITICS! The juxtaposition of opposites. Defying description, sanity, and analogies. Stretching the limits of plausibility, impossibility, and fantasy. Separating the image from the actuality.
In the age of TV, just try to look cool and keep your mouth shut as much as possible? Speaking of word-pictures, there's nothing "crazier" than a nervous house fly. Sure he's paranoid, but he should be! You there with swatter in hand; he crouched down like a sprinter waiting for the gun to go off. And then – strike! Another swing and a miss.
As an aside, my mother used to laugh when she heard "a swing and a miss"; she pictured a "miss" swinging on a swing. Women are from Venus, but she would have made a good White House correspondent; she was the master of The Dumb Question. And she would be surprised that no one calls a miss a "Miss" anymore (that's been a verboten word since about the time Nixon left the White House). Girls are now called a "child" – to age 26 – or a "Ms.," a term I'm still not used to.
By the way, I'm so old-fashioned that as a kid I used to drive horses to spread manure that I had pitched by hand. How's that for a word-picture? Sitting downwind from two gas-emitting horses – and sitting over cow manure. In defense of cows, I must say that cow gas is nothing compared to horse gas, quantity-wise.
Those enviro-mentalists must be on methane themselves. Juiced. They blame cow gas for everything that goes wrong in the world, but there are probably more deer and antelope, more moose, elk, and caribou in this country than cows, right? Not to mention seven billion people breathing out carbon dioxide (it's good for plants).
I'm so old I can remember when Mc Donald's had only sold "Hundreds and hundreds" of hamburgers, not billions, and I can't fathom a trillion (let alone 18 trillion in debt). Modern studies about food were a pet peeve for my mother. One Dumb Question: "Who says that butter is bad for your health?" Turns out she was spot-on as usual. Science now has to eat crow along with the buttered popcorn. Eggs, and salt on your eggs, won't hurt you either, but don't make a habit of crow. It's bad for your gizzard and credibility, new studies claim.
*Well, that's my column for today. I was distracted by a house fly, but there must be some lessons in there somewhere. As the Boy Scouts now say: "Be prepared. For anything!" The title of this column was inspired by Roger Pond's book "It's hard to look cool when your car's full of sheep; tales from the back 40." I figured it would "catch your eye."
P.S. Seriously folks, Winston Churchill had a point about "the future of Christian civilization." My parents were born in 1900 and 1901 and saw a lot of history. My mother was intrigued by the prophecy "They shall speak lies at one table." If she came back today, she would probably be asking the following BIG Dumb Questions:
- WHO SAYS that climate is our biggest challenge?
- We're promising the Arabs 1967 borders, and we made a deal with Iran?
- Why is the world helping pay for their bomb? Such a deal; why wouldn't Iran sign it?
- Islamist terror? How many "lone wolves" does it take to make a pack?
- Are Sunnis and Shiites killing each other "peacefully"?
- Borders? Why should we be the only country in the world with an open border?
- If we went to Mexico, would they leave the light on for US?
- If the invasion came from the north, would opponents still be called xenophobes?
- Our national debt is HOW MUCH??
- Who says the earth is warming up?
- WHO SAYS the seas are rising?
- And, why did Al Gore buy a home on the beach?
PPS: A recent news item said that the Park Service is predicting that the seas are going to rise THREE FEET. "'Every little bit helps,' said the mosquito when he peed in the ocean," my grandmother used to say. But REALLY, how many gallons of water would it take to raise sea level even one INCH? Has anyone ever done the math? Only a fraction of the earth is land mass, and only a fraction of that has ice or snow on it. The ice floating on the seas is a moot point, since its mass is the same, solid or liquid (melting icebergs don't raise water levels).
The Alar scare was a scam. The ozone hole "problem" got managed. How do you know global warming isn't a scam? We know so little for sure that a bit of warming might be a good thing! Check out Rush Limbaugh.com and climatedepot.com. Also, you might google "The eight stages of genocide." [More to come.]
© Curtis Dahlgren
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