Letter to the Editor Musings

After reading about Don Imus’s imminent return to the radio all I could think was thank god for the preachers, the pastors and especially the reverend Al. Without them what other better examples of exaggerated self-righteous victimization would we have to use as learning tools for the kids? Rev. DeForest Soaries says the girls from the Rutgers team have lots of problems that they’re still working through. Ah yes, back woes from eventually being used as willing soapbox pulpits for self-important melodramatic talking heads. Move on already, your 15 have passed. As to reverend Al who wants to know if there are any safeguards in Imus’ contract against his past behavior. Glass houses Al, glass houses.

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To a voicer in the NY Daily News: You say that another voicer missed two important facts about Adams, Jefferson and Lincoln, that they were raised Christian and it had a profound and positive influence on their lives. Really, Joe, you have no way of knowing the effect Christianity had on their lives but instead make that assumption through a religious arrogance that so many suffer. If any connection can be made to faith or religion, however remote, distant or inconsequential, it is automatically trumpeted as the prime reason for all positives. However religious or not these men were, they were smart enough to know the dire consequences of mixing religion with government, Lincoln even kept a proposed Christian amendment out of the constitution. Sadly being that smart is not something that can be said about today’s “leaders” and the damage is evident on a daily basis here and abroad.

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To those who have found fault with Barrack Obama’s comments about why he no longer wears his flag lapel pin: Please stop already, your overreaction is exactly why Obama has stopped wearing the pin. It’s your voracious hunger for symbols and symbolic gestures outweighing your need for action and results that has Obama making his own symbolic gesture. This appetite of yours is eagerly fed by our current administration on a daily basis knowing it needs no substance and is the easiest way to try and ensure your continued fealty. The symbols also come in pretty handy for distracting you from the truth and even, on occasion, scaring you. You need to look beyond the flag and see what, if anything, is actually being done in its’ name. Be open to profound disillusionment.