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TERRY’S TIDBITS

By Terry Gray

Strider1@insightbb.com

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”  Douglas Macarthur

THE FLACK ATTACK - Eric Flack was wrong.  He made a statement on the Francene show that he was in a common area of the building when he was assaulted.  So far, so good.  However, he went on to say that a common area of a building is equivalent to being on the sidewalk.  For those of you in town, you know to what I’m referring.  To those from far away, it is a story about an “investigative reporter” making trouble and getting beat up a little.

You see, this is what is wrong in this country; there is no respect for private property, a sentiment encouraged by “journalists” such as Flack.  Eric, the common area of a building is someone’s property, and it isn’t yours.  A sidewalk is that narrow piece of taxpayer funded concrete that runs beside taxpayer funded streets.  A sidewalk is yours.  See the difference?  The people who beat you up, a little bit, asked you to leave the property that they lease.  It doesn’t matter that there are several companies in that building.  Neither you, the public, nor the government owns the property.  You were trespassing.

Mr. Flack also said that it is the job of the media to help the community expose companies like this.  Since when?  Your job is to report news, not hassle private companies.  You are not law enforcement.  You carry no badge.  You made news instead of telling us the news, and that goes against everything in the book of journalism.

He said that he didn’t fight back because he didn’t want the situation to escalate.  In other words, he was a coward.  He didn’t want the story to have a tragic ending.  It is already tragic Eric when you as an “unbiased” reporter begin trespassing and insisting that people talk to you in order for you to create news.

I don’t support the guy who beat up Eric, but I do support property rights and am dead set against big mouthed, sour-attitude reporters violating those rights.

NO GAMBLING AROUND FAT WOMEN -- An Atlantic City casino is making cocktail waitresses weigh in.  If their height to weight ratio doesn’t fit the likes of casino bosses, the waitresses will be terminated.

“Yes, we take them outback and shoot them,” said casino manager Rick “Skinny” Dunlop.  “We don’t want them around.”

If a waitress weighing 115 gains 8 pounds, she will be suspended and then fired if she doesn’t trim down.

Several states are also getting involved in legislation involving kids and weight.  All you happy campers out there need to be aware that your pantries and refrigerators are under attack, as are your parenting skills. 

Don’t stash your pot or guns in the fridge or pantry.  The safest place to put these items is in your shower.  Our dirty government doesn’t go near showers.

GOVERNMENT AND GOD -- Mitch McConnell says there is nothing like being king, when referring to his government position.  But that isn’t what this is about – I just had to get that dig in.

Our first amendment states in part, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”  An Illinois law passed in January stops churches from banning homosexuals from their flock on the grounds that banning gays violates gay’s first amendment rights.  What a mess.

The governor of Illinois said, “Love Thy Neighbor” in support of the bill.  “Now bring Bruce and Steve by the house tonight, the wife is going bowling.”

I think the Constitution is pretty specific on the first amendment.  It protects religion against government intrusion.  No one is denying gays the right to worship, but some churches don’t want them worshipping in their houses of God.  But even more specific is the part of the first amendment that says, “Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise (of religion)…”  Funny, they just did.

Obviously, these churches have the protection of the first amendment to practice their religion in the way they see fit – without government intervention.  So why is the government intervening? 

This country is falling, folks, and this should make all the sniveling sissies with Socialist attitudes quite happy.  We are under attack from within, and every activist group operating for higher social standards is looking to take away our freedom. What is being done to our country is called Socialism, pure and simple, and it is being done under the umbrella of liberalism.

The next time you see someone on a soapbox preaching “Save the planet”, ask him what planet.  This isn’t just about religion.  It is about smoking, drinking, gambling, property rights, individual rights, and all the other little things that make this country great.  This is about government intervention in our lives, engineering our children into sheeple, and bullying us overtly with threats or bullying us subtly with propaganda.

Now enjoy your cocktail waitress, your church, your Mexican gardener, and your liberal “investigative news” while our government prepares to drop the pretext of being a free country.

BAD EGGS -- No, don’t get ahead of me here; I’m not going off on government.  Out of Ohio comes an egg contamination scare.  It is an egg recall, if you will.  There are 60 to 300 cases with 15 dozen cartons in each case.  They have been distributed in Kentucky under various labels, which my source fails to list.

I know I’m walking on shells here, but I don’t understand how one can determine that eggs are bad and then not know how many are bad eggs.  Sixty to 300 cases is quite a range, a 43,200 egg difference.  What if there are 301 cases and Grandma kills the family with Sunday omelets?  Why did only Kentucky get these eggs?  Why won’t they tell us what labels they are sold under?  Is Eggland one of them?

When I first read this report, I thought somebody was egging us on, not with the story but the way the information was scrambled.  They released a series of numbers to read from our cartons to determine if we have purchased bad eggs.  What if someone is fried and trying to read these numbers.  Wouldn’t that set them on a slow boil?  Now simmer down, at least they know that the eggs were legitimately distributed and not poached.

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