Islam and God-Less Liberal Cream Puffs

It seemed to me ex-Pres. Bush (the one dancing in the blue suit) might have had one too many before the memorial service for the five slaughtered Dallas policeman. Or, perhaps, he deliberately took this last opportunity to make Michelle Obama's life as miserable as possible as she seemed to have found herself in the most awkward position she had ever known---holding hands unwillingly with a smiling, swaying, older white male at, of all things, a funeral. And, Pres. Obama holding tightly to all his old-time ideological training just had to mention gun control once again . . . one more time---his sense of decorum is so feeble. There's so much he just doesn't get.

Now, abruptly, my easy, pleasant, old-white-man's evening is interrupted by first, the news of 30 dead in Nice, France---then, later 73 dead, who knows how many in the final count. In my musing on this, black deaths and white deaths roam freely about. Dead gays in Orlando. Blacks killed being arrested lie dead. Cops killed in the line of duty lie dead. Americans are so used to violent death nowadays. And the blame gets thrown around haphazardly and randomly like the treacherous voices that speak to the insane.

Speaking of voices, there will be in the hours ahead so many talking-head voices (75, now, they say) spouting endlessly opinions and tiny bits of egoistic truth, while doctors and nurses, doing the real business of life, are busily attempting to stop the bleeding and stabilize their patients. Talk is such a cheap commodity. I hear just now that "the civilized world must wipe out ISIS like the rats they are." I wonder what this emoting will sound like tomorrow morning. Time tends to soft-pedal the intensity of our emotions. We tend to look for less aggressive ways to solve our problems when given time to re-consider. Isn't it time, though, finally to stop compromising?

Our leaders are so impotent now, as our country has adopted a value system driven mainly by tolerance and general approval of anything and everything. Civility and Godly love have vanished as protocols for behavior. The definitions of courage and manhood have been "grunged" into complete blurriness. 

I, for one, am sick of all the apologizing that I hear from our leaders. If we are to survive as a civilization, we must obviously admit and deal with our faults and weaknesses, but more importantly we absolutely must protect our values. Fight for them, if necessary. Islam must conform to us, liberal cream puffs must be removed from policy-influencing positions---yes, we must "cling to our guns and our religion." And if that doesn't suit you, tough! Domestically and on foreign shores, we must resolve to quit allowing ideological bullies to control our lives.