Curtis Dahlgren
"A wolf and a lamb met at a river while drinking one day. The wolf for some reason wanted to pick a fight and accused the lamb of muddying his water. The lamb says, "Impossible. I'm downstream." Then the wolf accuses him of slandering his kind the year before.
"Impossible," says the lamb. "I wasn't even born yet." So the wolf, finding it impossible to argue, drew near to the lamb, foaming at the mouth.
"Sirrah," he snarled, "if it was not you, it was your father, and that's the same thing!" He bit the lamb's head off and had him for lunch.
MORAL: The wicked man will always find an excuse for evil-doing."
I PARAPHRASE AESOP THERE (500 BC). "That's the way it is," Walter Cronkite would say. He must be spinning in his grave. God must laugh, while the barbarians laugh a different laugh – as they go about methodically killing children of their own father Abraham, brother against brother, cousin against cousin! My mother used to say, "Well, excuse me for living." Sigh. This is the story of two brothers:
Two brothers from Ireland, one Catholic and one Protestant; two brothers in Iraq, one Sunni and one Shia; two brothers in Pakistan, one Muslim and one Hindu; two brothers in Nigeria, one Christian and one a jihadist. Call the two brothers" Cain and Abel; we all came from the same blood, red blood. Why waste the blood over trivialities? But human nature finds an excuse. The mother of one of the Paris terrorists, November 2013, said her son didn't mean to kill; he was just "stressed." Yes, there's no lack of "stress" out there, which is why I just rewrote the intro to this column. Originally, it was to have started out like this:
"Driving along country roads in Iowa, early in the 20th century, I saw and heard farmers plowing behind teams of horses, singing happily as they walked. Today farmers drive tractors – but where did the singing and happiness go?" – Editor, Plain Truth
It's funny, but I started to clean my garage the other day and stumbled upon this old magazine on the floor, a tabloid-looking rag, like a time warp. Last week I was talking about wormholes, and this magazine literally had wormholes (book-worm holes) in it. I never did finish the job of garage-cleaning. I went on to read the rest of the magazine.
"Where is any good news today? . . . There is a CAUSE for every effect. There is a CAUSE for the state of the world today [but] it is fashionable to be willingly IGNORANT of that . . It is popular to embrace agnosticism, meaning we don't know.
"Where do we find reassurance for tomorrow on university campuses when leaders of tomorrow are consigning morality to the limbo of an outmoded past, where suicides are on the increase, and unproven dogma are being absorbed by impressionable minds? Is there then nothing to live for? Self-professing intellectual people, professing themselves wise, became fools . . warning us that we must 'adjust' to a future of 'complex' problems for which there are just NO SOLUTIONS?" [emphasis in original]
By the way, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time while we were celebrating the "peace dividends" of the Cold War ending. After we had bailed out Muslims in the old Yugoslavia in the 90s, the WTC got hit again on 9-11 (that's the thanks we get!). And now [2013], Paris gets hit right after Europe takes in waves of Muslim refugees, people that nations such as Saudi Arabia refuse to take. Some of these "refugees" are dressed better than I am. The Libyan rebels drove better Toyota pickups than mine was.
Christians began to be persecuted and martyred after President Oboma's Cairo speech. ISIS went on its rampage immediately after five commanders were released from Gitmo. I'm just saying (just the facts). Cain probably killed Abel right after Abel had done a favor for him too. Human nature!
P.S. Art Buchwald said, "Whether these are the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." I originally thought of calling this column "A Tale of Two Cities" – comparing Paris and an NFL town that lost a home game on Sunday. I'll "bet" that there are a lot of people who didn't lose any sleep Friday night over the 11-13 terror attack, but went home bemoaning a football game! Sports radio somberly over-analyzed it over night and for the next two days or so. How soon we forget:
A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks[15][16] took place on Friday, 13 November 2015[17][18] in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during an international football match, after failing to gain entry to the stadium. Another group of attackers then fired on crowded cafés and restaurants in Paris, with one of them also detonating an explosive, killing himself in the process. A third group carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert attended by 1,500 people in the Bataclan theatre, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were either shot or detonated suicide vests when police raided the theatre.[19]
The attackers killed 137 people,[4] including 90 at the Bataclan theatre.[20][21][22] Another 416 people were injured,[7][23] almost 100 critically.[8][9] Seven of the attackers were also killed.[6] The attacks were the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings of 2004.[24] The attacks came one day after similar attacks in Beirut, Lebanon, and thirteen days after the bombing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
PPS: Speaking of the terrible twos, there were two kinds of people who were in town on January 6, 2021. The 90-and-9 were essentially there to thank Trump for the four years of his first term. The other one percent who chanted "Hang Pence," and so on, were the bad apples in the bushel. And there comes a point in time when motives and sincerity are irrelevant, and sorry doesn't cut it. I know it was a set-up, but they took the bait and hurt their own cause.
By the way, speaking of "two brothers," I'm looking for the exact term that describes the knee-jerk hatred for President Trump, Charlie Kirk, and almost any conservative. Herd mentality. Social contagion. Peer pressure. Willful ignorance. Intellectual dyslexia. Feelings over facts. Symbolism over substance.The blind leading the blind. A form of psychosis.
Have the Democrats crossed the Rubicon?
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