text: Friday, September 8, 2017
  
  Dunkirk. Again.
  
  Dunkirk.
  
  We need
  another one.
  
  A cultural Dunkirk this time
  around. To save Western culture, traditions, and the Judeo-Christian work ethic.
  They are everywhere under sustained attack. Literally and figuratively. Terror
  attacks in London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona, Nice, Orlando, San
  Bernardino, New York, Boston, Madrid, Sweden, Finland, et. al., haven’t roused
  us from our moral slumber.
  
  Historic
  statues and monuments are being vandalized, toppled or removed on a daily basis
  in the United States. Christian organizations that have threatened no one- and
  brought succor to many- are labeled “hate groups.” Success is ridiculed or only
  thought possible because of ruthless exploitation or cheating. Vice is
  subsidized as achievement is punished. Fewer and fewer successful workers are
  paying for more and more who don’t work…and are yet being branded as greedy, or
  reviled for not “paying their fair share,” even as they shoulder this burden.
  People who want to build a wall or otherwise get control of illegal immigration
  are labeled as crazy bigots, yet those, such as “Madonna,” who talks about
  having thought long and often about “blowing up the White House” are seen as
  hip, and courageous members of the “resistance.”
  
  Anyone
  with any kink is not satisfied with just getting on with it, they are fiercely,
  publicly in your face and “proud.” Universities are stocking tampons in men’s bathrooms…if they even have
  them…men’s bathrooms, that is…because, if a woman says she’s a man, who’s to
  contradict him even though he still requires feminine hygiene
  products?
  
  “Pull yourself up by your own
  bootstraps” was the mantra in the past. Now it’s, “Somebody else should be
  bleeping obligated to pay for my
  contraception- or abortion.” Yeah, because they
  are responsible for yourbehavior. Unbelievable. (Well, would
  that it were).
  
  Those
  who still smoke cigarettes are considered irredeemable louts, even as marijuana
  use, with its vastly more numerous and deadly side-affects is being legitimized
  and legalized. In fact, cigarette smoking now requires its own movie and
  television warning, as opposed to say, depictions of incest or talk of
  abortion.
  
  It is obvious that we more
  traditional types in “flyover country” don’t have the will or the numbers to
  seriously fight back against those who would see us wiped out. Let’s face it: Atlas has been mugged. So gather on the
  beachhead all ye’ boring, old, hard-working rubes, and send out an SOS…though to
  whom I don’t know. Where will we go? I don’t know that, either.
  
  Daily Trivia Quiz Answer
  
  Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).
  
  Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?
  
  A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"
  
  An Ode To Life
  
  Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.
  
  And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.
  
  Fireworks of the Mind
  
  Write It Up
  
  Whence Shall Come Another?
  
  True Then, True Now
  
  "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill
  
  Time Well Wasted
  
  The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays