Bubba, BBQ, CBS, Memorial Day and Musing on the Media, dang 'em

Well, y’all, I’m settin here with Ms. Maggie, and rockin’ and thankin’ and my heart is heavy. It is, indeed. Today Is the day after Memorial Day, and I am carrying a bad taste in my mouth, and it ain’t all beer and barbecue.

You wouldn’t know it to look at me now, but I oncet went to college for a spell. Now I know that them speech and journalism majors ain’t by a long sight the brightest bunch of cherries on the tree, but they outdid theirselves yesterday, on Memorial Day.

Did any of y’all see that hoorah they put on over their buddies that got whacked over there at the front? On Memorial Day, now. Did they start off by saying something like, “We’re sorry to tell y’all that once again on this sad and wonderful Memorial Day, while we are honoring the many men and women who have given their lives and suffered for this country, once again brave men and women in uniform have fallen to enemy action overseas. As a result of a bombing incident, an unknown number of our brave troops have been injured and died, and oh, by the way, a couple of our reporters out there working also got killed and Ms. So and so got hurt pretty bad. We offer our condolences to the families and friends of our lost and injured military volunteers and to those of our employees.”

Nope. It was a full-scale honors to the media ONLY deal . Not one word about the military dead and wounded . Shoot, you’d thought them media people were - I don’t know – some kind of royalty or something – some kind of essential personnel, or Santa Claus or whatever. You could sure tell their idea of the relative importance of our boys and girls to THEIR boys and girls. I mean, it was sickening. And it’s still going on today. At least today, at the end of the bit, there was a sentence about how they didn’t know how many military were injured. Well gooollllleeee!

I want you media moguls to know: you’re giving us the works over your worker’s comp injuries - that’s a family matter, folks. A corporate event. They got hurt on the job. They are not over there protecting us; they are over there earning a living and trying for a Pulitzer or whatever. I got news for you. Everyday in the USA, essential people like policemen, firemen, and others more important to us get killed and hurt, and we don’t see you raising a sweat about it. Your slip is showing – your elitist slip. Your Freudian slip. Take it private and keep it there. A brief mention is all it warranted, especially on Memorial Day when military casualties were suffered in the same event. Which you failed to talk up, you jackalopes! Where were your heads?

Whoever is prioritizing the news is getting it WRONG. Just like when those boys got pulled out of that helicopter in Mogadishu. Big news that woulda been to most of us back here in the states. Yessir. We woulda been glad to hear of that right when it was happening. And the regular programming was interrupted that day, sure enough. But you remember what they interrupted it for? Some basketball player was retiring again. Yep. That was important enough, THEY THOUGHT, to interrupt national television’s regular programming, but the fact that some scumbags dragged some of our boys off a humanitarian mission, giving out food to the starving, and beat and drug ‘em to death, then flaunted their mutilated bodies all over the place, our media boys didn’t think was important enough to interrupt the soaps- or a basketball player’s press conference.

What the hell’s that all about, folks?

Who’s running the national news programs? Ain’t it about time they got some homefolks on some of them programs, to kinda keep them in touch with the real world?

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. . . Wilfred Owens wrote that in WWI. He got killed. Decorum means appropriate behavior, which there’s little of in the media business these days. This practice of building up the media as something special is a mug’s game. Especially the way they do it these days. Gossip, opinion, mostly theirs, and very little facts. Investigative reporting that starts out with a bone to pick and looks for anything they can find to back it up – and discards anything that disproves it. Leaks against the national security to get the big bucks. In the old days we called that yeller journalism. Nowadays, those of us who remember call it “yellow dog journalism.”

Well, I’ve said my piece, and I hope you’re all listening, and I hope you write these creeps and tell ‘em to get straight. They all have to comply with the law to keep their licenses, in television and radio, at least. Maybe if they know you know that, they might start doing it. Or maybe they won’t. 2/3 of them are already foreign owned.

I’m getting off Ms. Maggie’s porch and going on home. I got to lay down and try to get some sleep. I’m gonna pray for y’all. Do so unto me, also. Good night.

FOR HOME AND COUNTRY – No Citizenship for Illegals! Memorial Day

I saw “For Home and Country” on an old WWII bomb warden’s pin, and it struck a note. Remember how it was, during the Blitz, when the bombs were falling on London, and it seemed the whole world was falling apart, and the children were sent away, but everyone else stayed, and we did plays in Covent Garden to buck up the troops? Remember how it was here, after Pearl Harbor, when everybody pitched in, and folks made do, and Hollywood made patriotic movies, instead of trying to cut America off at the knees?

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, and every government office is shut down. We’re all honoring our dead and the living who are out on the sharp edge, so we can dance our way through life at home, while Congress is busy throwing away what the rest of us are fighting for, both at home and abroad: a nation of laws, and justice – equal justice for all.

Congress just doesn’t seem to get it. Or maybe they do. Maybe the problem is they get it, they understand perfectly well that when they walk over the rights of the umpty million of the lawful citizens of America to de-criminalize the bandits [who like every other invader nation, ripped open our borders and took what they wanted] that when they void our rights to a protected border, to enjoy good schools for our children, where classes are taught on the English language level of our kids’ knowledge bases, where our hospitals and other social services are not depleted by illegals, and our tax base is not overbalanced; where our officials are refusing to enforce the laws – by for example refusing to check for citizenship before extending citizenship benefits like food stamps and other taxpayer paid benefits, and saying what is a flat-out lie that we CAN’T deport 11 million people – when they step on us they are not ensuring equal justice, equal rights – even for all citizens, because they are denying rights to American citizens to provide rights for NON- CITIZENS! Maybe they get it, all right, but they are so busy ensuring what they think is the votes of a bunch of illegal immigrants they’ve already granted voting rights to, that they think we’ll just go along with them on this.

Think again fellows. No votes for illegals. I think it’s time we kicked the whole mess of them out of DC, and started over. I think a bill to grant citizenship to illegals would be unconstitutional, and I think a class action suit against Congress, the Democratic and Republican Central Commitees, and the Attorney General of the US might be a dandy idea. We need an injunction to force these cretins to enforce the laws on the books. Whose idea was it NOT to determine whether or not these Mexicans and others were legal when they applied for food stamps, to say you couldn’t ask to see their id when they applied for driver’s licenses or went to school? Who issued the orders? Who established the policy? That’s an illegal order, under the law. Didn’t the Nuremberg Trials prove anything about illegal orders? Somebody somewhere decided not to enforce the law. At that point, all laws went to hell in a handbasket. Right then, massive anti-English, anti-German, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-Oriental [sorry guys, too many countries for my little column], anti-Irish, anti-everything else discrimination came into being. We need to file a class action suit on this, today.

All of those persons not enforcing the law are subject to jail and fines, right? Who’s with me? This is a country of laws. We’re not having it changed by a bunch of bozos wanting to ensure their own re-election. This citizenship issue will just increase the rush over the border, and mean even more lawlessness. We cannot allow the criminalization of America, and in the openly defiant demands of the protesters, illegals demanding “rights” they’ve stolen, we can see the future. They want, they take. And instead of standing firm to protect this country and its lawabiding citizens, Congress is sitting around up there on their fat wallets figuring out how to give it to them.

Mr. President, you can have your guest worker program. But not with a get out of jail free citizenship card. No citizenship reward for guest workers. Let them go back and forth across the border, visit their families, but let Mexico or whatever country they are from, educate, feed and clothe them, and provide their medical care.

And while you're at it, expand the program to bring in some of the kinds of workers we really need. Like registered nurses educated in Canada, England, Ireland, and other English-speaking countries that have the same kind of medical programs we have. There must be other high tech needs, as well.

The US government has a contract with its citizens : the basic clauses are called the Constitution, with the Bill of Rights as the addendum. You jokers up there in Washington, DC, better start paying attention to more than politics. America is not your playpen. It’s our lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren you’re playing with. We are not about to become even more of a nation of lawbreakers, just so you can rest comfortable with another slave race constituency.

And all this BS about hating Mexicans is just that - pure BS. We don't hate Mexicans; we hate criminals. Get it? We hate and fear the lawless, immoral, arrogant people who act from pure self-interest to get what they want, no matter what harm it does, no matter the short-term or long-term damage to whoever, regardless of the fallout to others. Sound like anybody you know?

Wanted: attorney to file class action suit. . .