Blue Truck, Red State: Where It's All Headed

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Where It's All Headed

Everybody in this country, high and low, young and old, on the right and on the left, loves to mouth about freedom. Which puts everybody in a rah-rah, wave-the-flag, let's-all-march-together-mood; and it just sounds so good, don't it?

But your Head Trucker would like to point out that nine times out of ten, what people really mean when they say the word is something else entirely. What they really mean might be a number of different things; much of the time it's Obey me, bitch - or else.

As evidence of which, I submit the following stories for you all to think about. And yes, whoever you are and whatever you do - your turn will come next, and sooner than you think.

Is It Fair to Fine Fat People for Not Dieting?

NYC Condo Tower Bans Smoking

2 comments:

David said...: The problem with our country is that everyone is WAY too interested in everybody else's business.

I'm not a big guy (although I come from a family of big-assed folk), and I don't smoke in the house, but that's me. I have no opinion on anyone else's weight or where they smoke.; May 17, 2011 at 10:18 PM
Russ Manley said...: Appreciate ya David. MYOB is a mighty good rule that lots of people need to learn.; May 18, 2011 at 4:26 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu