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Vintage Whine
Sam Aurelius Milam III I still hear people claim that reparations are due to the present black descendants of previous black slaves. Those claims fail on several points. First, the reparations will not be paid by previous white slave owners, but by presently living white folks, like me. However, I didn't kidnap anybody from Africa. I didn't force anybody to be a slave. Therefore, I don't owe any reparations. To claim that I'm culpable for the actions of my white slave-owning ancestors is like claiming that I should be executed because one of my ancestors murdered somebody. I didn't do it. Don't punish me for it. Furthermore, the reparations will not be paid to the slaves, but to the presently existing descendants of those slaves. Those descendants weren't kidnapped and brought here forcibly, so reparations aren't due to them. To claim otherwise is like giving child support payments to a woman because her great grandmother was deserted and left to raise the family alone. Another point to remember is that slavery was constitutional back then.1 Therefore, the reparations, if they are enacted, will be some of the most blatant ex post facto laws ever perpetrated upon the American People. The claims fail on another point. The people making the claims assert that they've been harmed by what was done to their ancestors. How's that? Where would they be if their ancestors hadn't been kidnapped? Maybe they'd be starving in Ethiopia, living in the aftermath of the floods in Mozambique, or dying of AIDS in Botswana. They sure wouldn't be in America, if they existed at all. Events that were atrocities for their ancestors have been a blessing for them. If they think they'd be better off if slavery had never happened, then maybe they should try to make things as much as possible the way things would be if slavery had never happened. The logical first step will be to go back where their ancestors came from. Otherwise, I think they should quit whining, count their blessings, and get on with their lives.
Spinning Gold into Straw Sam Aurelius Milam III I'll admit that I haven't paid much attention to the Olympics in recent years. I consider them to be at best a waste of time. My less generous view is that I'm disgusted by the commercialism and chauvinistic patriotism which has become their cornerstone. In terms of the emerging One World Police State, the Games are a blatant example of Bread and Circuses. Nevertheless, it was difficult to watch the news recently without noticing some things about the Olympics. I heard one reporter claim that the Australians had spent seven years and 4.5 billion dollars preparing for the Olympics. With 4.5 billion dollars, and seven years of hard work, the Australians could have solved a lot problems in the world, in Ethiopia, in Mozambique, in Botswana, or maybe even in Australia. I heard that Pepsi was a prohibited substance at the Olympics because Coke was an Official Sponsor. I wonder if the prisons in Australia became overcrowded with Pepsi pushers and Pepsi users, gangland shootings erupted as Pepsi syndicates fought for control of Pepsi turf, and Australians turned the problem over to the new Bureau of Pepsi, Tobacco, and Firearms. I noticed that they tried really hard to prevent the use of "performance enhancing" drugs. Why? They allowed the use of plenty of other performance enhancing stuff, from performance enhancing swim suits to high-tech poles in the pole vault. What's the difference? If athletes could use the other stuff, then why couldn't they use the drugs? If they couldn't use the drugs, then why weren't they required to swim naked, so nobody would get an advantage from her swim suit? I think I have an answer to that one. The prohibition doesn't have anything to do with the alleged performance enhancing qualities of the drugs. It has everything to do with the anti-drug mentality perpetrated by the advocates of the One World Police State. As I mentioned earlier, the Games are a blatant example of One World Police State Bread and Circuses. Alarmism about illegal drugs has become one of the mainstays of the One World Police State movement, and the Olympics have become an invaluable tool for that agenda. Maybe the pursuit of Olympic Gold will indeed become the last straw for liberty.
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Buck Hunter Shoots Off His Mouth Dear Buck My friend invited me to spend the weekend with him on his sail boat. Do sail boats have rest rooms onboard? — Worried
Dear Worried Yes, on the poop deck. Acknowledgments
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