Sunday, June 28, 2015


June 28, 2015

 

“The Daily Debates”

By Jim Culp

 

Well, it’s that time again. There’s confusion all around and Uncle Jim has to get everyone straight. That’s ok; I don’t mind.

First, let’s get this gay stuff out of the way. Gay people, the homosexual version of the species Homo sapiens, date back 4,000 years. People didn’t “get gay” in 1960 when the Beatles brought Rock and Roll from England; nor did they “turn gay” because Satan wants to destroy the institution of marriage. In simpler terms, “some folks is gay, some ain’t,” please get over it. I hear Senators this morning talking about proposing a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage for all time? Maybe they need to obtain a dictionary and read what they word “freedom” means. Go ahead Senator, look it up.

 

Second, let’s talk slavery. Slavery dates back to the beginnings of recorded history. Man is a creature that sometimes must exert his will over others. If you look at history, the Babylonians (dating back to 3500 BC) instituted slavery in every facet of life. The Roman Empire (both Pagan Rome and Christian Rome) made slaves of every single race that they conquered; the English made slaves out of thousands of Irish; the African landowners of the 16-and 1700’s sold slaves (entire families and generations) to thousands of rich folks in many countries, probably the largest to the families of the Americas. Slavery was condoned by Christian and Muslim for centuries; and oh yeah, the Torah. Slavery in the 1860’s in the war torn United States was nothing out of the ordinary in history. Families of the North and South both owned slaves; and many slaves from both sides fought in the war. The Confederate flag (a battle flag, and later a national symbol of the Confederate States of America), was representative of the thirteen states that succeeded from the Union; it was and is not a symbol of slavery any more than the U.S. flag is. The rhetoric that states this absurdity would be equivalent to saying that the U.S. flag stands for the near genocide of the North American Indians.

 

Thirdly, the world is seemingly obsessed with the “terror group” ISIS. First of all, although I certainly in no way condone these people’s actions, regard them in the same way that I regarded the Iraqi resistance in Iraq.  ISIS is a group of people driven by religion (imagine that) that believe in a cause, and that cause is making sure that they are not placed under imperial rule that will most assuredly be imposed on them if they lose, and also establishing a one party Islamic State. Now, that imperial rule may come from the United Nations, or it may come from Bashar Al-Assad. Either way these guys aren’t going to stand for it, and have resorted to some pretty nasty tactics to show that they mean business. The resistance in Iraq was fighting an illegal invasion of their country, and when the fight subsided there, these guys joined ISIS. I was on the ground in Iraq when thousands of Iraqi soldiers that were supposed to receive pay to join the army of the “New Iraq” and defend her against hostile takeover from Iran or Syria. Guess what? They weren’t trained or paid. Those soldiers with no job or country went where they saw a cause and a paycheck and started fighting the country (Iraq) and the invaders (US) that had fucked them over. So when we are labeling anyone terrorists, let’s look at all the facts. I’ve already told you that ISIS is funded from many sources; and some of those sources are western governments.

 

Fourthly and finally; there is a debate in this country that just doesn’t make any sense, yet it keeps making headlines. So let me make my case.

Axes were invented sometime several thousand years BC. They may have been crude, but they gave one man a distinct advantage over a man that didn’t have one. Later, axes evolved into very powerful tools and weapons, with hundreds of designs in use across the face of our planet.

Guns (although crude) were invented sometime in the 1200’s. They also gave a distinct advantage to the wielder over his opponent if that person didn’t have a gun. Guns also later evolved into very powerful tools and weapons, with hundreds of designs in use across the face of our planet.

Although many times in history, overlords have outlawed the use of axes and guns, they both survive today as two modern and perfected tools that can be used for sport, work, survival, and war. So my question remains; when someone is murdered with an axe, why aren’t politicians screaming to outlaw axes?

1 comment:

  1. A few points: 1) The word you want is "secede" which means to leave a nation. "Succeed" means to not fail in an endeavor. 2) I've heard from other sources that the confederate battle flag was never adopted by the Confederate States of America. It is often confused as the stars and bars which WAS the national banner of the CSA. It is my point that anybody who wave the confederate battle flag (aka the Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia) and claim "heritage, not hatred" hasn't done their homework. In my rarely humble opinion, there is no place for a flag of a defeated nation on government property that is not a museum. Here endeth the rant.

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