· Most local mayors and state governments are actually doing the work of the people as opposed to federal senators and house representatives who are not. How did Pennsylvania get stuck with this Governor and legislature which follow the dysfunctional federal model of hurry up and do nothing? Maybe Pennsylvania really is a miniature USA, with democratic east/west boarders, a republican interior and political grid-lock.
· Thank goodness our non responsive federal government has the Sunday talk shows and cable news to vent the country’s build-up frustrations. It sure beats tanks surrounding Washington’s corridors of power and a million people in the streets demanding a do-over.
· The resent military takeover in Egypt offers an excellent example of why democracy does not equal freedom or pluralism. A presidential election in a Christian country with a Mormon candidate facing off against the grandchild of an African Muslim, that’s pluralism.
· The new thriller zombie movie World War Z inserts into the “give me liberty or give me death” debate a bit of humor and something to think about. Apparently the North Korean leadership was able to defeat the zombie threat in its territory by pulling the teeth of all of its citizens so that no individual could infect another. Ergo, no liberty from mandatory tooth extraction and no death. (I have heard it is impossible to find a good steak in North Korea anyway)
· How much liberty would our citizens be willing to surrender in order to locate and disarm a terrorist with a suitcase bomb that had entered the country?
· Knowing that 9/11 spawned the Patriot Act and that a couple of teenagers with pressure cookers have effectively silenced the recent NSA revelations on monitoring our communications, what controls would be accepted if a nuclear device or gas attack decimated an American city?
· The same movie makes a great commentary on building walls to keep out undesirables. (in this case zombies) The Israeli attempt to do so results in chaos theory prevailing, just like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Despite the tallest walls that special effects could create, the Holy Land is gobbled up faster than the last bagel on Sunday morning.
· These fictional End Days in Israel are not what the evangelical community has predicted, presumably because no Heavenly Father in his right mind is going to rapture hungry zombies into his holy domain.
· While walls on our southern boarders certainly have a psychological effect, it is important to remember that foreign nationals are more resourceful than zebra mussels, killer bees and Asian carp, which defeat manmade impediments to migration with amazing efficiency.
· A decade ago I thought my family was way ahead of the curve in naming children. My sister and brother in law liked to combine his Italian last name, an Irish middle name and a mystical first name from India. Today such names are as common as our heritages and worldviews are diverse.
· This does not mean I understand Kayne West naming his new child “North”.
· The mixing of gene pools produces the most beautiful and talented of children. Barack Obama and Tiger Woods are great examples of a break out of thousands of others who are now at the top of their respective professions. Somehow, when male gametes from one culture meet female gametes from another, the whole is greater than its parts.
· Kayne West gametes meeting Kim Kardashian gametes to produce North West is not a good example of this phenomenon. Any couple, who would plan a wedding at the Egyptian pyramids in the middle of a “hot” civil war, should not qualify.
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