Unpleasant
Prospect
Sam Aurelius Milam III
It
must have been about 1960 when Poppa taught me an important lesson.
I'd been going to school for eight years and, in 1960, I entered high school
and the brainwashing intensified. I came home one day and started
telling Poppa how much of a threat the Russians were. I started to
explain the Domino Theory to him. He interrupted me and said, "Son,
you're in more danger of losing your freedom to your own government than
of losing it to the Russians." To this day, I remember that lesson.
Poppa also tried to teach me another lesson. He said, "Son, people
are just too damned stupid to be worth bothering with." For all of
these years, in spite of the evidence in support of Poppa's position, I've
resisted the temptation to agree with him on that point.
Several
months ago, while I was riding in a friend's car, I had to listen to a
news report that was playing on his radio. It was his car and I was
getting a ride from him. I didn't want to object to his choice of
radio programs so I had to listen to the report. The news report
was about some wonderful new procedures at the airports. The new
procedures allowed people to get through the security checks (AKA gestapo
thug checkpoints) much more easily than had previously been the case.
The only comments reported were about how easy and convenient the new procedures
are, as compared to the previous procedures. Nobody commented about
the violations of the fundamental principles of liberty that are embodied
in the procedures, either the new ones or the previous ones.
I've
spent more than 20 years trying to educate people but things are immeasurably
worse now than they were when I started. After all of these years
I'm still trying hard to not believe it but maybe Poppa was right.
Maybe people are just too damned stupid to be worth the trouble.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Letter to the Editor
I
just had the chance to glance at your latest newsletter, and I think there
may have been an error in the article titled "Vapor
Standard." [page 2, September issue] I think that what
the bank is doing is this: when a customer uses a debit card (not
a credit card) the amount of the purchase (withdrawal from their checking
account) is rounded up to the next dollar, and the difference between the
purchase price, say $5.40, and the amount taken out of their checking account,
in this case $6.00 is deposited into their savings account. The $0.60
goes from the customer's checking into the customer's savings account and
the amount the bank is holding doesn't actually change. The idea
is that it is a painless way to get morons to save a tiny fraction of the
gobs of money they spend at Starbucks every day.
—Lady Nancy the Enchanting
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Status
Check — In the past, it was often the case that one difference between
a slave and a free man was that a slave was prohibited from bearing arms.
Do you have the right to walk down the street in town, fully armed?![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Giving Blood
Original Source Unknown. Forwarded by BLA, of Schertz,
Texas.
Many
years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to
know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious
disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion
from her 5-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease,
and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The
doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy
if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him
hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes,
I'll do it if it will save Liz." As the transfusion progressed, he
lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color
returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded.
He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start
to die right away?"
Being
young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor. He thought that he was
going to have to give his sister all of his blood. Attitude, after
all, is everything.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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