“THROUGH HEARTS AND MINDS”
by OPOVV, ©2013
(Sep. 12, 2013) — People have accused retirees of doing nothing and just taking up space. I disagree and can prove that a retired person has real worth and, therefore, is a valuable asset to the community at large. Why, just last night I scored a perfect game of Hearts on my computer. That’s right, I scored a perfect game: 0.
Of course, it took me years. What do you think I do while the printer is printing or I’m waiting for a website to load, or else (and this is really rare) just goofing around? I’m participating in meaningful endeavors.
Let’s say LGM (Little Green Men) arrive on our planet from, say, the planet Vulcan and, instead of asking, “Take me to your leader,” they say, “Take me to ‘The Anointed One’ who scored the perfect game of Hearts.”
“No one ever scored a perfect game? Well, then, sorry, but we’ll just have to vaporize your planet, them’s the rules.”
Or, just maybe, my amazing feat will inspire someone to go back to school and spend his free time at the library rather than holding up a bar stool.
Maybe an honest person will run for public office, accomplish the campaign promise, and then leave and go home.
That’s right: if a politician has been in office more than TWO terms, either the job is done or it’s a sure sign of incompetence. Either way, that politician should be history: “Ah so, so sorry to see you go, so Sayonara just the same, you Yankee Devil!”
Every two years, like clockwork, we hear the “Broken Record:” “Yes, if elected, I will push for term limit reform!” The problem is, they never do, for if they ever did, it would be a done deal, but it’s not.
Then every four years the stylus would be on “Energy Independence,” that is, until Obama came along and became the “Mouthpiece that Collects the Money for Jihad.” The increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline is paying for the explosive that becomes an IED. Imagine that: we’re paying for our own destruction, and we keep on paying.
It’s nuts, I tell you. We’re nuts ’cause we’re going along for the ride. What do you think of that? Well, I don’t think much of the whole sorry mess. Defer to a politician? Defer to a US Senator? Defer to the de facto president? No way.
We are each ONE PERSON. We are each a universe unto itself. We travel through space. We have billions of neutrinos zapping through us daily. We get covered in UV radiation. We are able to view the electromagnetic spectrum in just about every imaginable wavelength. We click on “Hubble” and view the cosmos. We imagine being invaded by flying saucers. We have the ability to reason, to actually think and figure out problems to a successful conclusion.
Or can we? Maybe we think we can but we really can’t. Maybe some of us think that our politicians, in general, are people who have an ounce of empathy. Maybe we can’t think at all, but then again, maybe we can put wrongs right. Maybe we better put wrongs right.
You. Yes, I’m talking to you, you who are reading these words. Get off your behind and talk to someone, convince ONE person today that we, a collection of individuals, can achieve the common goal of restoring our Constitution as the “Law of Our Land.” At least give it a try, for try we must. We must win over the enemy through “Hearts and Minds.”
OPOVV