After just receiving a haircut expertly administered by a sweet lady from Laos, I am in awe of my situation. To hear her story, one would give her every excuse to do what a lot of natural born Americans do - sit on their derrieres watching TV, collecting unemployment, having more babies, and collecting more free government services.
This lady from Laos grew up in a Communist country, where they barely had laws to protect their freedoms. She said it is worse now. She came to America when she was fourteen years old, by herself, and worked her way through college paying for it herself. She cuts hair for a living and is married to an American man, but was a citizen before she was wed. She speaks four languages, and is as modest as they come. She is simple in terms of conversation, not angry or aggressive, but she knows her craft extremely well. She charges a sum that is twice as much as your cheap chain place, but I've had my hair cut by her for about five years or so and she ALWAYS does a wonderful job. She is always professional.
Her sister is visiting from Laos and doesn't want to go back to her country because if she does they probably won't let her leave again. That country won't allow her daughter to leave even now. My hair dresser said that in Laos, the place is corrupt. The people in government achieve that status through knowing people. The government is not bound by any sort of law, they can come into your house at any time and take your stuff and tax you for no reason. They can tax you for anything.
Women have no rights. If their husbands beat them, they stay with them. They have no say in the relationship. After high school, women are expected to become housewives with no exception.
This description is interesting, because it reminds me of a certain video game by the name of Grand Theft Auto, where apparently anything goes. It is a world in which you are not bound by any moral obligation, there are no apparent consequences for stealing, killing or destroying anything, not even human life. This simulated situation is apparently very appealing to a large number of the young populace in America.
Did I mention the Laos populace does not have electricity or water on a consistent basis?
These circumstances are all common. My hair dresser told me these things in matter-of-fact sort of way. She said that North Korea is the same way; China is the same way. Yet, there are persons in America who claim we are oppressed because homosexuals are not treated in the same way as heterosexuals. Last time I checked, they are different.
Should they be treated as less human? No. Are they to be defined the same way? Are they the same? I don't believe they are, and those who would argue they are, are less concerned about equal rights and more interested in control and manipulation of a society. The homosexuals I know are happy to be with someone they love. That being said, although there are simplistic elements, it is a human drama that is not easily handled with logic without a higher authority than man.
This conversation comes to me again:
- Him:
- Him:
This was nearing the end:
Him:
He could not, or would not answer those questions. He will not because to do so would to admit a loophole in his philosophy, and he might have to accept responsibility for his beliefs. It is because people support beliefs systems like those that dozens of students at the community college at which I attend come to class only long enough to receive their financial aid checks, and then they stop coming to class. These people are not being helped by the "free money" they are receiving from the government. They are in fact being handicapped.
I received financial aid as well. It could be said that the money I receive was my father's money anyway because he pays thousands of dollars worth of taxes every year. Why should he not get some of that back to pay for his daughter's education? By the same token, why should he have to pay for the alleged education of countless others who use the money for anything but being educated? Essentially, he is because he works and pays taxes. Is he the hoarder my friend is referring to?
Or why does my friend not question President Obama who he swears is a great guy when Mr O goes on lavish vacations and takes multiple needless trips to no places important? My father is paying for that as well. Why is my friend not upset with the man who is doing exactly what my friend claims is greedy and disgusting?
How can he not see the hypocrisy?
May I remind you, he represents at least 51% of the general population in America.
I was sitting in my dressing room the other night listening to a fellow cast member bemoan how her taxes have gone up so many percents since getting the contract on her house. She talked about the extra hundreds of dollars she has to pay because of the new taxes added to her property. This same woman would cry out in disdain if I were to imply that her precious liberal philosophy is the cause of said increase in property tax. She went on to say that it's worth it to her, even with the extra taxes, to be able to own her own home. Why? Why should that matter to her? Does she not know that the philosophy she supports by lauding humanistic liberals is the same destructive philosophy that is infiltrating our beautiful country and like termites eating away at the foundation of what supports her right to own said property?
Is our country so ignorant to be unaware of those seemingly obvious connections?
You wanna know irony? This song
Written by Samuel Francis Smith; the tune used for this song is "God Save the Queen", the British National Anthem.
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim's pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring!
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim's pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture fills
Like that above.
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture fills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our father's God to, Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
The American Pledge of Allegiance:
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
It was written by a Baptist minister.
It is because of men, words, and beliefs like these that our country has been a safe haven for multitudes of immigrants. It's world renowned for being the land of opportunity.
Our national Anthem:
The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It is beliefs like these that our culture was founded on, and by which we are as free as we are today. It is these beliefs we are giving up in favor of counterfeit equality and meaningless rhetoric.
I guess that's all for now.
TGIF.
~A.C.
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