Quack

If he walks like a killer and quacks like a killer and looks like a killer then, well, you guessed it. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has decided to murder millions of innocent baby ducks. Yes, no matter how small a group they are, he doesn't want to offend yet another minority - the minority of those whose pagan religion dictates the sacrifice of little baby ducks. As you read this, B. Hussein Obama is allowing bailout money to fund cleat wearing Muslims to find and stomp baby ducks to death. As an American, I am offended! How can this happen in our country? This country – OUR COUNTRY was founded on the boundless inspiration provided by precious little baby ducks. From the Revolutionary War to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the images of little baby ducks waddling behind their mother or swimming carefree have comforted our heroes. Take this away, this quaint comfort, this cerebral sanctuary of gleeful abandon, and what will be next? Puppy sacrifices? Please don’t ignore this and let this offense roll off like water on a duck’s back. Let us take back our country! If you agree, if you love God and your country, copy, paste and forward this! Let freedom waddle!

Commandments

Please read this article by Christopher Hitchens:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/04/hitchens-201004

Or, in case you just feel odd about going to Vanity Fair’s website, here’s the accompanying video on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_lM61aDyPg

I often disagree with Christopher Hitchens but this article and accompanying video does provoke some thought. It’s funny too. All commandments are touched on and new ones are added. There’s one commandment that has always puzzled me. It’s not that I’m hung up on it or anything but I’ve asked supposedly knowledgeable people, indeed a preacher once, what exactly does the commandment ‘Do not take The Lord's name in vain’ mean (it isn’t worded exactly like that but that’s the verbiage I’ve always heard). I never got a satisfactory answer. The preacher I asked once told me that you can damn Mohammad but don’t damn God. In additional to a notable intolerance, that response really didn’t make sense. The notion that you never should ‘damn God’ seems reasonable but this commandment is usually applied to saying ‘God damn’, not ‘Damn God’ or ‘Damn you God.’ ‘God’ followed by ‘damn’ is a command or request, you’re telling God to damn something, like whatever you’ve just stubbed your toe on. Asking or telling Him to damn something could be a bad thing or at least a serious thing but then again perhaps it’s understandably worth damning. I don’t know. When I was a kid I thought that Charlton Heston cursing out the human race at the end of The Planet of the Apes was harsh and yelling ‘God damn you all to Hell!’ was just asking for trouble - I mean you just don’t say that. Nowadays I think it was justified with the Statue of Liberty sitting there on the beach all banged up. Again, I’ve always heard the commandment phased ‘Do not take The Lord's name in vain.’ ‘In vain’ means to do something no avail, to fail. If during a prayer you ask God to keep Grandma well and she dies, was that taking his name in vain? Perhaps seeking the meaning of the commandment itself is in vain. I don’t know.