Shadow of Death
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
In the early 1960's, John F. Kennedy tried to convey the menace posed to mankind by nuclear weapons. He warned: "Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us."
I’ve lived under the sword of Damocles for over 50 years and have accepted it as a way of life. Today, the Bush regime tells us to be afraid, be very afraid. However, I’m not afraid of the terrorists as much as I’m afraid of Bush’s incompetence and the congressional Republican's rubber stamp approach to protecting us. Bush’s cowboy bravado does not comfort many of us.
David Broder, the country’s premier political reporter said: “He started a war he could not finish, drove the government into debt, and repeatedly defied the Constitution.”
The eventual cost of the war in Iraq will be more than a trillion dollars. Nevertheless, this year House Republicans slipped in 13,012 pork earmarks worth $67 billion. That's a tripling of the pork trough, since the Republicans won control of the House in 1994.
Congress passed a law making it a crime to burn an American flag. It would make more sense to pass a law that says you can't burn a facsimile of the Constitution. We should be fearing the desecration of our Constitution, which John Sweeney and his rumdum friends in Congress have allowed to take place, under the pretext of making us safe.
In the early 1960's, John F. Kennedy tried to convey the menace posed to mankind by nuclear weapons. He warned: "Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us."
I’ve lived under the sword of Damocles for over 50 years and have accepted it as a way of life. Today, the Bush regime tells us to be afraid, be very afraid. However, I’m not afraid of the terrorists as much as I’m afraid of Bush’s incompetence and the congressional Republican's rubber stamp approach to protecting us. Bush’s cowboy bravado does not comfort many of us.
David Broder, the country’s premier political reporter said: “He started a war he could not finish, drove the government into debt, and repeatedly defied the Constitution.”
The eventual cost of the war in Iraq will be more than a trillion dollars. Nevertheless, this year House Republicans slipped in 13,012 pork earmarks worth $67 billion. That's a tripling of the pork trough, since the Republicans won control of the House in 1994.
Congress passed a law making it a crime to burn an American flag. It would make more sense to pass a law that says you can't burn a facsimile of the Constitution. We should be fearing the desecration of our Constitution, which John Sweeney and his rumdum friends in Congress have allowed to take place, under the pretext of making us safe.
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