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Terry’s Tidbits

December 26, 2005

Terry Gray

Strider1@insightbb.com

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."  C.S. Lewis

Spying, a Necessary Evil?

          I think not.  The president said that desperate times call for desperate measures.  I am sure that every leader throughout history has felt desperation, but not all have turned to tyranny.  There are some leaders like Hitler and Hussein, to name two who have subscribed to the notion that the law belongs to them.  A leader’s desperation should center on serving the people by adhering to the laws and to the constitution.  A real leader would do that.  A leader who has lost his sense of duty to his desperation, like President Bush has, is not a leader that this country needs.  He is a criminal and should be subject to the laws that address his crime.

          Bush said that Osama Bin Laden once changed his behavior because of leaks to the media.  He meant that as a bad thing.  I hope that leaks to the media change Bush’s behavior and I mean that as a good thing.  I also take exception to Bush going on the offensive with the leak thing.  Freedom of the press is one of our rights, but Bush may not know this. He acts like a little boy who broke the window and then wants to turn the attention to the one who ratted him out.  Please grow up Georgie.

          Bush said he thought he was doing the right thing.  I bet Hussein and Bin Laden think they are doing the right thing too.  Hitler was sure that he was doing the right thing right up to the end.

          I wonder how much freedom is enjoyed in countries where the government plays spy with its citizens.  That is a tough question simply because those countries aren’t used to the kinds of freedoms that we are used to.  Many in those countries believe they are free; after all, they are told they are free.  It makes me wonder how free we really are; after all, we are told all the time that we are free.  In fact, the president says that by removing one of our guarantees to freedom he is protecting our freedom.  Imagine that.

          Bush supporters are now pulling the Clinton defense out of the bag in an attempt to rescue the president.  In their words, “Clinton broke the law too,” once again showing that regardless of how much pie stain one has on his fingers his guilt is measured by how much pie stain the next guy has on his fingers.  Many of the same Bush supporters who are using the Clinton defense were first on the bandwagon to impeach Clinton for the same crimes to which Bush has admitted and has been informally charged.  (Editor’s note:  President Clinton was impeached and eventually was disbarred for lying under oath.  We are not aware of President Bush admitting to or being charged with a similar offense.)

          This attack on our constitution by the man with a sworn duty to protect our constitution was unnecessary.  Bush could have accomplished his goal without breaking the law.  He chose not to, thereby trivializing our rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.  The actions of our president were bad but the sentiment behind those actions clearly defines this president as one who is bull headed beyond belief.  He had a choice and he chose to lie to the American people.

          The debates now in progress on this issue also clearly demonstrate that capital hill is not concerned for the citizens – they are concerned for themselves.  This is not a matter of partisan bickering between parties running our country.  This is a matter of the separation of our leadership from us.  We, the citizens of the United States of America have been wronged – not by some foreign power but by the very people sworn to dutifully represent us and protect our freedoms.  There has been little true concern shown for the attack on our freedoms and security by this president and his administration.  The concern centers on the security of those in charge and those who would be in charge.

          To all of you on the hill, don’t punch holes in my protections in order to strengthen my protections.  This assault is a serious crime and the criminal has admitted guilt though he shows no remorse.  It doesn’t matter that he thought he was doing the right thing.  He broke the law and for that he deserves to be punished no differently than any other low-life criminal who damages society casually and without regard for those he has harmed.

More Various Propaganda

          The Kentucky Board of Health Associations is now running a new ad about secondhand smoke.  This ad is like something out of Refer Madness, the cult film from the 40’s that showed marijuana “addicts” killing people and worse.  They want you to believe that if someone coughs in a restaurant, anywhere in a restaurant, some of that cough will land on your tongue, go down your throat, and end up in your lungs.  Then you cough of course and send the terrible stuff to the innocent people 20 tables over.  The important part of this message is that some of that “cough particle” may contain one of the estimated 69 carcinogens found in tobacco smoke.  In President Kennedy’s day this would be referred to as “The Magic Particle.”

          The National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health says there are 20 carcinogens in tobacco smoke.  The EPA says there are 60 carcinogens in tobacco smoke.  The CDC claims there are 250 chemicals known to be toxic or cancer causing.  These must be magic carcinogens too because no one knows how many there really are.

          The human diet is composed of the intake of about 10,000 toxins and/or carcinogens on a consistent basis.    

          The Kentucky Health ad also wants you to know that you receive the same smoke from eating in a restaurant with smoker(s) as if you’d smoked three cigarettes yourself.  It doesn’t say how many smokers are in the restaurant, how far away from you they are, whether the restaurant is ventilated, and how long you stay. 

          The propaganda doesn’t want the truth to get in the way of the agenda.

          Dr. Troutman of the Louisville Department of Health just gave Louisville a very bad health grade.  Of course he did, he is new to the job and it wouldn’t behoove him to come in and say all is peachy.  He has to justify his job and make his legacy.  The new health sheriff is cleaning up Louisville.  One would think that a black man with a medical degree would understand the word Nazi.  Maybe he does and since he is now wearing the pants, after all those years of the black man being held back, he is flexing his muscle on the community.  “Look at me, I’ve got power.”

          The smoke Nazis are going after smoking in homes with renewed vigor.  They complain that since they have chased smokers out of the workplace smokers are smoking more at home.  Since they are smoking more at home their kids and spouses are breathing more secondhand smoke.  This just goes to show that they have not thought out their agenda.  When they incite an action they have not considered the consequences.

          The Nazis of Indiana are whining that smokers are no longer as productive in the workplace as they could be.  Of course not you fools, you’ve made their workplaces hostile to them.  They can’t smoke at their desks or work stations, they no longer have smoker friendly break rooms, and in some cases they have to leave the premises completely in order to smoke.  This situation sure as hell isn’t going to promote productivity.  Using the mindset of the smoke Nazis, smokers are hopeless addicts.  How can you expect them to be productive if you don’t allow them their fixes?

          These social leeches will not rest until they suck the blood out of every smoker in the country.  Then they’ll begin find another peeve to attack.  Their agendas are like Little Big Horn coloring books, they just don’t make sense.

Just like Hitler, once day they will back themselves into a bunker and find themselves with their own guns stuck in their mouths.  I have got to see that.

Stephenson/Woodward

          Our local news stations seem concerned that the Kentucky 37^th Senate seat is vacant.  I have felt no effects of not having a Senator for a year.  Maybe we should get rid of all of them a few at a time.  I don’t think that we’ll miss them and look at all the money we’ll save.          

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