Unca Darrell

MAY 30 / The Chronicle tried to do the right thing

It really did.

The newspaper typically ignores American civic holidays like, for instance, Memorial Day, or says something . . .  

MAY 28 / Remembering

UNCA D's street has twenty-two houses on it. Today fourteen have flags in the front yard.

These are good neighbors and good citizens, doing the thing we are obligated to do: remembering those honored men and women in our nation's military who have sacrificed their lives for this wonderful country, America.

And equally for men, women, and children in the nations our armies have liberated and protected -- nations too often marked by crosses and other grave markers of young Americans who never returned home.

Why? What is it to us?  

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Emphasis added)

Though this day is about fallen heroes, not those who remember them, still it must be said: Well done Fawn Creek Drive. Well done, indeed. 

Now, on to November and that new birth of freedom.

MAY 27 / Back atcha

UNCA D is getting hits galore today from this righteous, but ancient, blog post by . . .

MAY 25 / The Houston Chronicle is a righteous critic . . .

. . . of Governor Rick Perry's slush fund for crony capitalism, the Texas Enterprise Fund, at least when the slush goes to his friends. But not . . .   

MAY 24 / A defense of Christianity and Western Civilization from . . .

. . . Mitt Romney, addressing graduates of Liberty University:

[Your] values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live your beliefs, the more you will endure . . .

MAY 22 / If you want to offend friends in the cultural left . . .

. . . start a conversation about Western Civilization that is neither ironic ("nice idea; we should try it") nor critical ("source of the world's misery") nor nonjudgmental ("China: just as good as us").

Such conversations rarely occur, of course, because those who disdain the civilization that forms the basis of their prosperity and security are obnoxiously loud, while those who recognize the superiority -- not the perfection; the superiority -- of Western Civilization have been taught to keep quiet about their eccentric, politically incorrect belief. 

Well. This very conversation starts in earnest at 7:00 p.m. tonight . . .

 

MAY 17 / Suit up and get in the game

WHEN I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me -- when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches. The priest is still wearing a cassock, but . . . 

MAY 15 / Obama lead in Electoral College drops by ten

REAL CLEAR POLITICS today moved a state to "Toss Up" from the Obama column of its Electoral College count, "Battle for the White House." Details at "Following the Polls" in the right column. 

MAY 14 / Maybe this is why Houston Chronicle . . .

. . . editorialists refuse to celebrate the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and Thanksgiving. 

APRIL 27 / . . . where your mouth is

IF YOU LOUDLY PROCLAIM your wish to defeat President Barack Hussein Obama on November 6 and do not (a) fill out this form, (b) attach the requisite item, and (c) mail it to the designated address, you are a blowhard, a gasbag, a clanging cymbal, a hypocrite, a poseur, a de facto supporter of the man you claim to oppose.