The Thomas Chronicles

It’s been a busy few days and I haven’t been able to post anything substantial, but I thought I’d drop in and wave. I’ll have a new post up in a few.

He agrees that immigrants should speak English. Plus. He thinks that our kids should speak Spanish. Equals. Schizophrenic European Spanglish America.

Can you parlez-vous Espanol?

For those wanting a political pseudo-messiah to solve all their problems, all I’ve got to say is…

There has been many times these past few years when I have felt like John Adams in trying to get people to listen. I am sure I am not alone in this sentiment since, at least here in America, there have been many voices that call for, and have been calling for, attention to the erosion of our freedoms.

Why, for instance, have we allowed a European billionaire upstart like George Soros to heavily influence, if not dominate, one of our political parties? Will our policies be decided in Brussels rather than Washington D.C. extra-constitutionally in our near future?

Why have we allowed millions of men, women and children to enter our country illegally in what amounts to modern-day slavery?

When did we allow the government the prerogative to direct us, the sovereign “We the People of the United States“, how to eat, what to eat, what to drive, how much we can drive, if we can or can’t smoke?

How did our government suddenly be given the authority to exclude our beliefs from being seen in public, to raise and control the minds of our youths, and to tax many Americans directly into poverty in the name of the environment even as members of our government pollute more than 20 times the average American? (Al Gore flies the most polluting airplane on the market now.)

How? When? Did I miss the vote? Or was this done by some bureaucratic edict?

All this has remarkable similarity to the generation that called for independence from Great Britain. The do-nothing fat cats in Congress, who voted themselves a lifetime of health care and a taxpayer provided staff…

Instead of independence from Great Britain this time around, we are faced with a global entity that wants to subsume America into one of its territories, like England is, like France is.

If these schemes at a global government succeeds, we are no longer Americans but subjects of the Globe. We might call ourselves Americans but without all the rights and the freedoms that entails being an American, we might as well call ourselves Martians even though we don’t live on Mars. It’s a nice sentiment, but it’s far from the truth.

It is these kinds of issues that were debated in Philadelphia in 1776.

You can imagine John Adam’s frustration as he tried to persuade, coax and maneuver the Continental Congress to declare Independence, and if you are like-minded, I’m sure you’ll have not much difficulty in imagining…

Although a musical, this scene from the movie 1776 pretty much captures it:

May God shine His Light us! Let Freedom Ring Forever!

This happened in my hometown of Houston, Texas. Apparently, some Islamic group called the Book of Signs Foundation is distributing Islamic Korans on the doormats and doorknobs of people’s homes.

So far, the group claims to have disseminated 30,000 Korans throughout Houston and some Houstonians are none to happy about it.

One resident said, “If we went into a Muslim country and left a Bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later.”

The Foxnews reported that these Korans were “targeting neighborhoods believed to be most receptive of the Quran or in need of a better understanding of Islam.”

“In need of better understanding“?

Perhaps the Muslim group, Book of Signs Foundation, has a somewhat limited understanding of Texans.

I know many Houstonians take an indifferent or a dim view of Mormons riding around their bikes with black slacks and black ties while distributing their Book of Mormons.

With this in mind, I don’t think they would take well to the distribution of a book that calls on every Muslim to kill infidels, Jews or else make them submit to Islam.

Maybe I’m off here but I think that was a tremendous waste of paper.

I’d rather not see the latest in the Batman movies. I’ve been a fan of the Batman movies ever since the first Tim Burton movie back in 1989. I’ve even checked into the comicbooks from time to time despite (or because of) Frank Miller’s psychotic rendition.

But this is one Batman movie is not what I had in mind as a good time for one overwhelming reason. The death of Heath Ledger.

I believe this role ultimately killed him and I don’t see how anyone can rationalize it. He said the role got under his skin. The sociopathic madman in the Joker got inside him when he played that role, haunted him, refused to let him sleep, as though the evil he portrayed latched onto him.

Heath Ledger described his sleepless nights and mental exhaustion as he wrestled with his role as the “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic” Joker in the new Batman film.

He died overdosing on sleeping pills.

I know there are some who say they’re going to see this movie in honor of Ledger, but I think it’s darn close to morbid.

… to be entertained by the movie that killed Heath Ledger— kind of like laughing over a man’s grave, there’s just something not right about it…