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Thursday, October 14, 2021 • Page 4A
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Alan Landers
For the Last Time,
Sit Down
As all decent, law abiding, pa
triotic Americans, black, white,
brown, Republican, Democrat,
Independent, watch in revul
sion as the warped ideology of
the radical Socialist Democrat
Party, their shills in fake news
media and their zombie army of
unelected, unaccountable, ca
reer bureaucrats in the Deep
State (CIA, DOJ, FBI, and mili
tary top brass) and big tech
continue their mission to de
stroy the country and our free
doms, we, the people, are
making a stand.
The surest way for them to suc
ceed is for us to do nothing/say
nothing. It is becoming more
apparent each day these radical
goons have no interest in trying
to persuade us... Force and In
timidation are now their
weapons of choice.
They know we know they are
liars. They know we know they
are corrupt to the bone. They
know we know they are incom-
& Shut Up!
petent and everything they
touch turns to crap. This infuri
ates them and we must be pun
ished.
I’d like to make one thing clear:
When I use the word radical to
describe the radical Socialist
Democrat Party, that does not
apply to ALL Democrats. It
applies to today’s Democrat
Party leaders and the activists
that control the Democrat Party
and the government.
When I say radical, I mean just
that... radical/militant/extrem
ist. When three airliners were
flown into the World Trade
Center/Pentagon/crashed in a
field in Pennsylvania killing
3,000 people, it was RADI
CALS that did it and radicals
have done thousands of sense
less atrocities in the past, pres
ent, and will in the future.
When the NAZIS, Communists
and other despotic tyrants
seized power, they were RADI
CALS. They rant, they rave,
they burn, loot, destroy, mur
der. Initially they use persua
sion to fool followers, but
eventually... inevitably use
FORCE combined with lies, de
ceit and corruption to secure
and maintain their power. The
less people believe their lies,
the more FORCE is necessary.
This seems to be the point at
which we find ourselves. More
and more regular Americans
Democrat/Republican/Inde
pendent are awakening to the
fact that that the Biden admin
istration and radical Socialist
Democrat Party care NOTH
ING about America or regular
Americans. NOTHING.
I swear to you if Republicans or
Trump were doing this to our
country, I would oppose them
as vigorously as I do Biden and
the Democrats.
When hundreds of thousands
illegally flood the border unvac
cinated/infected, spread across
the country, but Americans
Democrat, Republican, Inde
pendent, black, brown, and
white are being forced to take a
vaccine or get fired, what the
hell is that? Radicalism.
When 70 percent of legal immi
grants/Mexican- Americans and
others are opposed to Biden
and the radical Democrats’ de
structive immigration policy, is
that racist? That’s what we’re
told. When 70 percent of
black/African-Americans think
voter ID should be required
when voting, is that racist?
That’s what we’re told.
When parents of every descrip
tion across the country, black,
white, brown, purple, green,
and beige demand school
boards STOP teaching their
children (CRT) to HATE others
based on the color of their skin,
to stop teaching their children
that there’s NO difference in a
man and woman, that men get
pregnant and menstruate, that
it is fine to castrate adolescent
boys and perform double mas
tectomies on teenage girls, hav
ing an identity crisis and the
Biden administration’s Depart
ment of so-called Justice (DOJ)
and fools in the fake news
media call the parents domestic
terrorists and deploy the FBI to
intimidate and shut them up.
That’s radical. We must unite
and stand together and fight
these insane tyrants.
Terry McAuliffe, long time Clin
ton lackey, former head of the
Democrat National Committee
(DNC), former governor of Vir
ginia, and currently a candidate
for governor in Virginia,
summed up the radical Socialist
Democrats’ view of parents that
have a problem with and school
administrators and boards
when during a recent debate
said, "I don’t think parents
should be telling schools what
they should teach."
Need I say more about how
much contempt they hold for
regular folks and our rights?
Any surprise that these tyrants
are willing to call you, me, us
domestic terrorists for speaking
out against them? WE must
stop them. NOW!
This is not isolated. It’s a con
tinuation of a pattern since the
election was stolen. It is why
the Jan. 6 myth they invented
and instigated is so important
to them. Yeah, some
dumba**** did something stu
pid and caused some damage at
the Capital. Was it justifiable to
turn the Capital into an armed
camp with more troops sur
rounding it than are deployed
in the Middle East and label ev
eryone a domestic terrorist? Of
course not.
It was just an excuse to label
those that disagree with the
radical Democrats as domestic
terrorists/insurrectionists just
like they are labeling parents
that speak out against what
their children are being taught
are now domestic terrorists.
Guess we need to sit down...
shut up... wear our masks... get
our shots... get neutered... or
else!
B. Waine
Kong, Ph.D., JD
Waine's World:
Common Sense:
Do You Have it?
With a blink and a nod to
my occasional contrariness, ab
stract thoughts, and intuition
(what my gut and sixth sense
tells me), I pride myself in tak
ing a practical (pragmatic)
“common sense” approach to
life. What is that, exactly? Well,
there’s the rub; while we gen
erally agree that there are
things that are obviously true
and logical, the proof is in the
pudding or in the details.
According to Wikipedia: The
term common sense is what
people in common generally
agree or take for granted. Some
use the phrase to refer to beliefs
or propositions that, in their
opinion, they consider in most
people's experience prudent
and of sound judgment, with
out dependence upon esoteric
knowledge, study or research,
but based upon what is gen
erally accepted as true. While
that is not a common-sense def
inition, it probably is as close as
we will ever get.
Common sense fails me
when “I know” what most
people believe is well off the
mark and downright myths. I
have used Plato’s allegory of the
cave repeatedly over the past
six years to make various
points, but here is the basic
premise:
1. A tribe of people have
been living in a large cave for
centuries.
2. Their teachers taught
them that reality was just what
they experienced in the cave;
for example, the shadows on
the walls of the cave.
3. Some precocious boy (in
his wondering and explora
tions) found a way out and es
caped.
4. At first, he thought he was
in a fantasy world, but as he hit
his head on a tree and stubbed
his toe on a rock, he came to re
alize that his people where the
ones living a lie.
5. He anxiously returned to
them to reveal the truth he had
discovered.
6. They called him a fool, a
liar, and a heretic, and stoned
him to death.
What would you have done
with your newfound truths? At
the risk of being stoned, I al
ways make the decision to try to
correct misperceptions and
myths. I hate the thought of just
going along with whatever is
being preached at the moment
when I know better. My grand
mother was fond of saying, if
you know better, do better, but
always stand up for what is
right and just.
When I attended college as a
psychology/sociology major,
my professor assigned me to
work with a poor family. I
would tutor the children, cut
their hair, go for walks, and
listen to whatever was on their
minds. As I drove to the house
one day, I saw delicious pecan
pies sunning on the porch. I
had my visit and my host of
fered me a cup of coffee and a
slice of pie. I gratefully accepted
the offer. The coffee was fine,
but she took a towel and
schussed the flies from the pie
that turned out to be apple.
They had no aversion to flies
and the germs they trans
ported. What would you have
done?
My wife and I were invited
to a friend’s wedding. We sat at
a table along with some of her
uncles and aunts. Somehow,
the conversation turned to why
pigs can be raised in snake-in
fested farms while other ani
mals are often killed by snake
bites. “That’s right. Pigs don’t
have veins and so the venom
cannot spread.” So, my wife (as
gentle as she could) said: “As a
physician, I can tell you that all
animals have arteries and
veins, including pigs.”
The uncle piped up and
forcefully tried to correct her
and said: “Well, as a farmer and
a butcher, I can tell you that
pigs don’t have veins and that’s
why they survive snake bites.
Have you ever raised pigs?” The
conversation went back and
forth and even when I chimed
in, we made no headway. But a
week later, our friend called my
wife and cussed her out: “How
dare you come to my wedding
and talk down to my family. She
never spoke to us after that -
sort of being stoned.
I am more than a little frus
trated with people who still be
lieve the world is flat, that
global warming is a lie, obesity
is not unhealthy, ghosts are for
real, that your personality is de
termined by the sign under
which you were born, and
women and minorities are less
intelligent and even unteach-
able. I once had a conversation
with a gentleman who pro
claimed that “facts be
dammed,” we can just take a
vote or come to a consensus to
decide what is true or not true.”
Whatever rocks your boat or
tickles your fancy becomes a
judgment call, which I suppose
is a kind of common sense. And
while I know better, I persist in
saying: “sunrise” and “sunset”
knowing full well that the sun
does not rise or set. But by now,
this phrase is so ingrained in
our poetry and everyday con
versations that there is no
changing it. Can you help me
come up with something more
accurate?
Almost daily I have conver
sations with people about what
causes a “cold” and make no
headway. I still hear from very
educated and sophisticated
friends that getting caught in
the rain or a “draft” will give
them a cold. If we are caught in
an unexpected rain on the golf
course, you should see them
scramble to get dry and put on
dry clothes. No woman I know
will wash her hair and immedi
ately go outside. Being in a hot
environment and then going
out into the cold or when my
pastor says he has to cool off
after his sermon and then wrap
up (coat, hat, scarf, and boots)
to make that dangerous trip out
into the cold.
Once more ladies and gen
tlemen, in the absence of a
virus or a germ, you cannot
“catch” a cold. Please stop ha
rassing your children to put on
a hat and coat before they can
go outside.
Albert Einstein said: "Com
mon sense is the collection of
prejudices acquired by age 18."
I will even agree that all “com
mon sense” contains seeds of
prejudice. I do know that we
cannot discover new lands if we
refuse to lose sight of our har
bors. I am appealing to your
common sense. Enlightened
self-interest should drive us to
science, logic, and ethics - does
n’t that make sense?
Elaine Dees
Ph
jifc.. ft"
4.
Take a
Deep Breath
I wish my brain had an iCloud, but
it doesn’t. So I have to be very careful
about what I put into memory, be
cause it hangs in there daily... I don’t
watch the news much, so I choose
what my brain can handle to read...
Lately that’s not very much.
I was somewhat relieved to hear
they were asking us to mask up again
because I really don’t want anyone
reading my lips or seeing a full range
of the expressions on my face. We all
have good days and weeks, but not so
sure about months. I can’t even begin
to address the loss so many in our
community have felt because to date
I have been spared. I know for sure all
of this will pass in time.
Since the beginning of recorded
time, pandemics, climate changes,
and political revolutions have ex
isted... Mankind has become some
what civil only recently, if you’re
talking about real timelines, and not
centuries.
Recorded history has a lot of lessons,
if we will stop and learn that it only
repeats itself.
Be smart and find humor in every
day... I do some days more than
others. Surround yourselves with
wise friends and fun friends.
I look outside and find a lot of
similarities with today’s news with my
animals... If the guineas would pay at
tention to what I’m feeding them all,
and not be so worried about each
other, they’d have a better day... The
guinea’s job is to hunt snakes and not
fuss over my spilled birdseed.
The male ducks are always chas
ing female ducks and causing untold
amounts of havoc... they’re my thugs.
The sweet, gentle wrens, so apprecia
tive of my meal worms, and the hum
mingbirds flying around my flowers,
make me happy. We all need to take
a look at nature and take a deep
breath and stop stressing out.
BUT I still need my mask. Unfor
tunately, it covers up my big smile
when I’m out... or at least I’m trying
to find that smile again... We all need
to smile.