“I Am the Lord your God….you shall have no other gods before me. You shall make no graven image or any likeness of anything in heaven or earth, nor bow down to any such thing.” (The First and Second Commandments)
This just in …
Apparently, they’re sloshed on ‘The’ Kool-Aid in Oslo today. Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama … Looks as if the “Skip” Gates beer summit paid off.
NEWS ITEM 1: OSLO (Reuters) - President … Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world “hope for a better future” and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew both warm praise and sharp criticism.
Soldier: Obama could not even achieve “peace” between the U.S. and International Olympic committees and, thus, golf will make its Olympic Games debut in 2016 in Rio. The Caddy from Ipanema?
NEWS ITEM 2: LOS ANGELES (Wall Street Journal) - Obama spent two years at Occidental, a small liberal-arts college … before leaving to complete his undergraduate studies at Columbia. … (Occidental) is considering a statue (of Obama), an Obama-inspired reading room and lecture series, among other things.
Soldier: The guy shunned your school to find a campus populated by more non-white radicals, and you want to erect a statue?
NEWS ITEM 3: CHICAGO (Bloomberg) - At least 47 school-age children in Chicago have been killed in homicides, mostly by guns, since the month President Barack Obama took office. The latest youth homicide in his adopted hometown was different only in that the attackers used splintered railroad ties and were captured on video broadcast globally.
Soldier: Plenty of splintered railroad ties in those violent streets, but where was the hope and the change?
NEWS ITEM 4: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top official with Iran’s most powerful military force—the Revolutionary Guard—says Tehran will “blow up the heart of Israel” if the Jewish state or the United States attacked Iran.
Soldier: Is this a scenario to which the Nobel committee referred when it cited Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”?
In a search for consolation in these dangerous times, perhaps the best that can be said is that there are really, really stupid people in any number of population centers, in Oslo, in Los Angeles, in Tehran, and in Chicago. Knowing this can only embolden those of us blessed with fully developed intellects, common sense and sincere hearts to soldier on. We have no choice.