Wednesday.....Culture.....One If By Land

Please consider this scenario: Hundreds of miles off of our Eastern coast, in the middle of a perfect tempest, a ship is in danger of going under. The captain and many of the crew wait on the bridge for the chief engineer to return and give his assessment. The hatch flies open and he charges in closing off the storm behind him, does not bother to take off his rain gear but merely says We are going down! He begins explaining his statement with one problem after another, the ships pumps cannot run, the water level is pouring into the aft compartment and cannot be stopped, the tear in the seam is eighteen yards long and water will continue to fill the lower compartments, the cargo has shifted to the port side where the tear is, the waves now rule this ship... The ship of state of America is going down!  This is not a drill! By going down, I mean that all of our history is under water. Our laws are atrophying. There is a tear in our American fabric developing for the last eighteen years that exposes a man typing into a teleprompter, his long gray hair covers his ears, his gray beard rests on his chest and his dark mustache covers the lips that have spewed lies that many have followed. Our allegiances have shifted, 42% of them (as of this week) are still willing to begin a new America, unrelated to, and irreverently discarding the old. The storm clouds over the face of the earth now dictate our future. This nightmare will come true if we do not wake up, and it may even if we do. Our local newspaper published a piece today with untruths and distortions on a topic that comes up in blogs such as this. A friend at work pointed it out to me as evidence for the other side of this issue. How do we deal with this when the media, at the very best, hasn't a clue, when purveyors of misleading information have the eyes of a people who are only willing to give a glimpse towards finding the truth? The first stage in combating this epidemic has to be a diagnosis. This ship of state is sinking! Barbarians are at the gates! These folks have to know that this is not a game to us, played when the Steelers or Penguins are not playing, or when not looking forward to vacation, or until the kitchen cabinets are in. They have to hear this in our conversation. We are more than concerned. We are shaken by what has transpired in the past eighteen months but not dislodged from our moorings. We are building with mortar and brick as fast as we can. The directions for fortifying the heritage we hope to give to our children is not four easy steps. There are prints and schematics involved and we are willing to go over them with anyone anytime but will not be drawn into sound bite debate that has been the modus operandi of the Left and powered them to their present dominance on committee chairs, cabinet appointments and Czarships. I assume that Army basic training is the same as it was 40 years ago, at least I hope that it is. Life changes the morning after the swearing in and taking of the oath. The hair is gone as is the free time. For two or three months, you are taken apart and put back together again, and nine out of ten men that I have talked to were appreciative of experiencing it. I don't think that a picture of Uncle Sam pointing, and saying I want you!, has much effect anymore but let me give you this picture. Contrast the American flag raised on Iwo Jima at the cost of 6,800 Marine lives next to William Ayers standing on that flag on the cover of a magazine, the day before 9/11. The bell is tolling, the lantern is in the church tower and there needs be a sudden change in our lives until, God willing, we can give this heritage of freedom and liberty to the younger generation.