Sluts or a Saint?
Hello warriors.
It has to be a difficult choice: Sluts or a Saint? Use print space and TV time to cover the sick behavior of psycho, suicidal, pop-culture sluts or revere this country’s Founding Saint’s birthday? Nah, scratch that — it wasn’t a difficult choice. No need to lie to ourselves, here. This country’s Media has for a long time easily whored itself out to irreverence, indecency, and American disloyalty.
We’re told that it’s President’s Day. That’s a lie. Even going by the dry, official ink on the Federal Office of Personnel Management books, it’s still titled George Washington’s birthday.
Here’s the official history of the holiday. Since the last full year of George Washingtons’ Presidency, the holiday was celebrated in commemoration of his birthday. According to the old style calendar in use back then, he was born on February 11. However, according to the calendar that has been used since at least the mid-18th century, most Americans have celebrated his birthday on the 22nd.
Along came Abraham Lincoln, another revered president and fellow February baby (born on the 12th). The first formal observance of Lincoln’s birthday took place in 1865, the year after his assassination, when both houses of Congress gathered for a memorial address. Lincoln’s Birthday did not become a federal holiday like George Washington’s, but it did become a legal holiday in several states.
In 1968, legislation (HR 15951) was enacted that affected several federal holidays. One of these was Washington’s Birthday, the observation of which was shifted to the third Monday in February each year whether or not it fell on the 22nd. This act, which took effect in 1971, was designed to simplify the yearly calendar of holidays and give federal employees some standard three-day weekends in the process.
While the holiday in February is still officially known as Washington’s Birthday (at least according to the Office of Personnel Management), it has become popularly known as “President’s Day.”
Don’t expect to be told the truth by those — including even Federal Office of Personnel Management employees! - who butter their bread making political correctness and historicism matter more than the truth.
I have a problem with a couple things, here. Let me tell you what I think.
For starters, both the reason for revision and the absence of solitary observance for Washington’s birthday are flagrant insults to the original blood, sweat and tears undertaking of the Founding.
What kind of nonsense is it that we use the birthdays of those American pioneers who labored the hardest and sacrificed the most, to secure us the freedoms, comforts and conveniences that we all enjoy today, “to simplify the yearly calendar of holidays and give federal employees some standard three-day weekends in the process”? Is that not disrespect in its most demeaning form? What pompous gratitude we extend: “You ancestors of ours really busted your butts your whole lives. Literally, you gave until the grave. Now let us take your much deserved break for you on our frequent, government-subsidized, three-day work holidays. And while we do, we promise to forget the importance of all you did for us.”
Next. Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a National Holiday, but not our country’s First President? Should I go on? Should I have to? Do I want to? Will I? You bet your ass I will.
Let’s see if I understand this correctly. Or should I say, let’s see if I can get to anywhere near a “correct understanding” of this piece of nonsense by, first, understanding it sensically using political-incorrectness?
Martin marched a few times from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL. It’s only about 40 miles and he walked along paved roads with security escorts and modern comforts and conveniences. He wrote a few jailhouse letters, plagiarized a great many speeches, and played up his last name “King” as if he was ONE. He led his best rally amid the monuments of Washington, DC. He preached proper, righteous behavior while he at the same time committed adultery many publicly verifiable times — oh, and he had “a dream.” One to see a race of people freed completely from discriminate oppression.
Washington trekked through miles and miles of uncharted territory on horseback and foot with nothing but his balls, his blankets, his musket and other primitive 18th century means. In his mid- 40’s he left his wealthy wife and secure estate lifestyle and rode off on horseback into a presumably unwinnable Revolution where he threw himself time and time again directly into the line of fire and afforded himself no special privileges. He practiced what he preached and he fell to his knees and prayed for the courage and discipline and restraint to not be so weak in his manliness to fail so again. He wrote eloquent letters, authored his own speeches, and scribbled down his own moral guide consisting of 101 Rules of Civility (at the age of 16), all of them using a bottle of India ink and a bird’s feather while under the light of a lantern or a fireplace fire. He refused to be a King when he could have been, causing even King George III to remark, ““If true, then he is the greatest man in the world.” And those monuments in DC? His name and his life made it all possible. Oh, and he, too, had “a dream.” One to FREE ALL Of MANKIND from ANY kind of tyranny, then and forever.
Pick your hero, gentlemen. When the comparisons are made it is clear that our GREATEST American is NOT being honored with the respect and reverence he so deserves. In our public sphere, we are repetitively guilefully coaxed to honor makeshift mediocrity rather than timeless magnificence.
In my humble, brazen, unassailable opinion (built on and up from the truth and only the truth), if our Founder’s had known the memory of what they’d do would not have any peace in its rest, perhaps they wouldn’t have worked as hard and sacrificed as much as they, indeed, did. They believed their posterity was worth it. Too bad we don’t think their ancestry is.
No, I’m not a scholar or historian on George Washington or the Founding Times and others who lived then. But neither do I need to be. Like the understanding I need, and can easily acquire, to well-enough grasp the workings of our American government and know when our Constitution is being undermined and my constitutional rights are being violated and stolen, none of what I (or any other American) can know about George Washington, to determine the man’s magisterial general character, is difficult to put together. Neither is it supposed to be. Although the pinheads and pundits do plenty of sophistic work to lead us common folk with great commonsense to believe that an understanding of anything having to do with our government — its offices, its history, and its leaders — is supposed to be difficult, the truth is the opposite. Not one bit of it is difficult to understand. Although the cerebrally-bloated intellectuals try their damnedest to convince the population otherwise, none of the knowledge about how it all works and what history can reveal to us is beyond our own Creator-endowed powers of reason (unalienable right). Of course, the difficulty for many people lies in choosing to use this incredible faculty to know what they need to know. If that is your “difficulty,” see a shrink. I can’t do the work to think for you.
To put it through with blunt force, George Washington was a Great man. By any standard, even a perfect one, he was. He, along with the other Founding People, set the absolute heroic role model that ALL Americans should learn about and emulate today.
It’s been a mentoring habit of mine for a long time to tell young people, especially the young punks all full of themselves who’ve not only never done anything great but rarely see anything all the way through to completion, “There are people who have done much greater things than ANY of us living today.” George Washington is one of these Great people. For me, he tops the list. He is MY hero.
I’ve told the story many times before. Throughout my life, I’ve been positively influenced by a handful of individuals. But whenever I was asked who I would consider a hero, there was never any one individual I could point to. It was only after my unique experience in sports entertainment portraying a hero figure for many young kids, spending the last dozen years of my life giving attention and study to classical mentoring, and discovering a love for American history and subsequently the heroism and brilliance of the Founding times, that I came to call George Washington the foremost heroic figure of ALL time. Although one of the many Founding people I consider Great, George Washington embodies the model of hero most notably –and most nobly. He set a transcendent standard of masculinity, integrity, honesty, and courage like no other.
He not only set the standard all Presidents who would follow him should strive for, he also set the standard, through his speeches, for how the American people must behave and what responsibilities they hold if America’s unique form of Republic government was to survive. CON-servatives talk ONLY about how Conservatism needs another Ronald Reagan. But what America truly needs is another George Washington.
The timing of ALL the Founding people’s lives is prophetic. I have to tell you, for me, George Washington’s life and its story deserves the same, if not more, reverence than even the man called Jesus Christ and his story. George Washington was, after all, a God and a warrior.
I know, I know — keep it to yourself. I’m a blasphemous SOB. Tell you what. They say there is power in prayer. So you gather all your born-again friends to collectively pray for my demise. If I kick it, then the few hundred thousand that come around here will immediately be become loyal and fatihful converts. Deal?
Each of us must decide for ourselves — about everything. I have.
Each of us must, also, decide how deeply we believe — about everything. I have.
I truly believe America’s Founding was Created by Our Creator. I think it’s incredibly funny how those (especially CON-servatives) who claim to be committed to their belief in a Creator casually pick and choose what individual things they think he Created, when the truth is He Created everything. From the moment He set all of Creation in motion, He destined IT ALL, including the destiny of America and the lives of the Founding people at that time. I believe this. You don’t? Fine. Be a fool — and a hypocrite.
Your Founding Father of Ring Life Intensity,
Always Believe,
Warrior
February 21st, 2007 at 10:16 am
I tip my hat and salute George Washingston since I agree he is one of the TRUE heros and leaders of our country and history. Almost all the presidents in the last few decades cannot even come within the same ranks or honors of a man like Washingston who was on a war ship fighting the British and in battle FIGHTING and not just preaching about a war they caused or could have prevented.
The White House has turned into nothing but a whore house and might as well be a “Go-Go bar” with the lying snakes and low-lifes who call themselves LEADERS now-a-days.
I’m sorry to say but during 9/11 I think the white house was the one target I wished really got smashed and burnt to ashes. For when a historic landmark becomes nothing more than the house the devil lives in and a heaven for crooks, murderers and thieves. I think there’s nothing wrong with destroying and burning something down next to nothing in order to make it right the next time around. The house is already tarnished.
Your right that today’s youths have never followed through on most things and have done nothing great. I think young people have lost a lot of class over the last two decades here in America.
But I think (no excuse but maybe a reason) also this is because the growing demands and requirements of education and greed (prices of everything).
It’s a whole new subject but one I think is true.
How many middle class and lower class kids can afford the time to do after school sports with more and more homework?
Where’s the room for creativity? How many “pick -up games” of any sports are played now with the internet and videogames taking up all of kids time?
This debate can go on and on…………
February 21st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Interesting read , never looked at it that way , must say the comparison between Luther King and Washington is going to strike a few blows to those who not going to be able to pick up the underlying meaning . Then pray tell Warrior Sir , what you would think of our Mr Mandela , I am eager to hear your comments .
Thanks again for the read
Devan the legend
February 21st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Last month the History Channel did a great piece, “Washington the Warrior.” I had seen many other bios about our first President, but nothing so in depth about his leadership in battle.
Balls, yes, indeed. In atime when it was “uncivilized” to shoot officers and most officers led from the rear, Washington several times led from IN FRONT of his troops. That is balls, as you call it, I still prefer “guts” (pun intended).
The man inspired loyalty in his troops like no other, convincing his men to stay on even after they were doing without pay, supplies, and yes, food. Most modern people would have walked away from Valley Forge without hesitation, because it was too damned hard. Those men stayed mostly because of their love for their leader.
“One of the best lines I have read in modern times is in this post, Warrior…..
CON-servatives talk ONLY about how Conservatism needs another Ronald Reagan. But what America truly needs is another George Washington.”
How very true.
Be well,
Sponge
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February 21st, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Good Point. All the news has been about Britney and Anna and I have not heard one word about George Washington. I heard more about Martin Luther King than George Washington. If any one human being deserves TV time it is George Washington. In fact, I think George Washington should have his own network.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Amen brother.
Of course we have to be PC and appease the FEW to keep the FEW happy so they don’t make things a mess for the MANY.
PC should be considered dead and then we move on. NO dancing around and saying, OK, you did something psuedoimportant, hey, want a holiday?
I don’t care who’s getting buried where. Who’s shaving whos head. Whos partying and drinking where. I want to hear NEWS and that’s real NEWS not Hollydud crap.
Tell me more about how Jack Murtha got a boot in his ass by the rest of the Senate and they didn’t pass the feebleness that the House did. Tell me more about how our troops are kicking ass everyday and making progress while Hilliary and Osama Obama want us to bail just when we’re getting a foothold.
Lay the smack down where we must. Don’t pull punches at home. Say what needs to be said and don’t pretty it up with PC. Presidnet Bush may not be the best speaker, but when he is good at it is when he’s pissed and shoots from the hip. How it should be. Remember the boiling point when Dick Cheney rifled off the f-bomb volley at worthless Pat Leahy (not the former Jet’s kicker either) on the floor of the Senate. Good, classic stuff. Again, how it should be. The press will tell you that the VP was out of line when in reality he was simply getting to the point while dealing with idiots.
Give me quality, give me the truth (which will hurt sometimes) but give me America. The way it used to be, the way it should be. Death to political correctness while we’re at it.
“Hit it fast, hit it hard.”
-”Wiz”
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:37 am
Unfortunately, the ignorant will only see racism by Warrior’s remarks about King. I’m not for or against what The Warrior says all the time. But it’s absolutely outrageous that we can celebrate a day specifically for Martin Luther King but can’t even honor a man that IS America. Washington is a victim of generalization when he is by no means generic when it comes to him as a man, or President for that matter. Basically, how can you celebrate a man that’s halfway up the ladder of greatness and not honor the man at the top?
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:22 am
Warrior,
Hello, my name is Zach; I’m new here.
I enjoyed reading your thoughts on heroes and, particularly, George Washington. I’ll admit that, until now, I never fully stopped to think about who he was and all that he truly accomplished. He was a great hero indeed.
I really don’t have much to argue with you about in this posting. Except, perhaps, that Martin Luther King Jr. (despite his deplorable adultury) was an inspirational speaker pursing positive change in our society, and, for that, he should still also be regared as a hero.
What really captured my attention in this post was the introduction regarding what the media portrays as important — from Britney Spears to Anna Nicole Smith — it makes me sick.
Anyway, that’s a rant for another day. Keep speaking your mind, thinking for yourself, and inspiring others to do so as well.
“Freedom!!” - William Wallace, a hero of my own.
~Zach
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:08 am
First of all, let me preface my comments by saying that Washington was indeed a great and nobel man, and he played a fundamental role in facilitating the formation of what has become the greatest nation on earth.
That Being said, as you tend to glorify the Iraq War and the American presence there and our attempts to force a government upon an unwilling people, one might question just how much of Washington’s fairwell address you have read, though I’m sure you probably just missed that whole bit about non-interventionism - extending only commercial ties to foreign countries and not getting politically involved. You might also have missed that whole part about avoiding partisanship - that the office of government is to work TOGETHER for the common good and to set aside political ideals when progress demands it. Also, the assertion that Washington could have been king but refused? Not so accurate. Since, as you assert, i am sure you are capable of understanding the history of how our country was founded, i would recommend some light reading for you that might help you in seeking out the reality of our history. The Articles of Confederation and the Second Article of the United States Constitution would probably be good places to start. The only precedent Washington set was to step down after 2 terms. By no means could he claim to be king of America.
As for the attempted contrast with Martin Luther King, while you certainly paint a compelling picture, it is not particularly grounded in reality. I would first point out that Martin Luther King day is on calendars as the 15th of January every year. Funny thing is, when it doesn’t fall on a Monday (which is the case the vast majority of the time) you will see this funny thing on calendars where it says “Martin Luther King Day (observed)” on the monday closest to his birthday. If you flip to February, in much the same way, American calendars will say “President’s Day” on the third monday of february, and if that happens to be a different day from Washington’s birthday, you will see the 22nd labeled “Washington’s Birthday.” There is a reason for making these adjustments. Since the conventional workweek in the United States is Monday through Friday, the powers tha be thought it would be more useful to the citizens of this country to tack the holiday onto the nearest weekend to allow people to perhaps travel to visit relatives or have three days in a row to get some home projects done, whatever reason. You might also note, that if the 1st of january falls on a monday, then MLK day is observed on the 15th, his actual birthday. Funny coincidence there, cause if the first of February falls on a Monday then washington’s birthday and presidents day occur simultaneously as well. So it would appear that the founding father who liberated white america is accorded the same treatment as the Nobel Peace Prize winning champion of the civil rights movement who played a fundamental role in the liberation of black america.
Furthermore, when Washington was out doing surveys in his youth he traveled with a company, not all by himself fighting the wilderness, man against the elements. He was born to a very wealthy family in virginia, and began his military career as Major Washington - not taking anything away from the leadership he provided during the revolution, he did not face an abundance of adversity prior to the French and Indian War. He also did not champion that cause of Independence, that was Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. Washington offered his services when the fighting broke out due to his reputation for military leadership. He didn’t write the Declaration of Independence, in fact, he didn’t even sign it. Giving him all the respect he is due for what the leadership he provided to our military during the Revolutionary War, you still cannot deny that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
King, on the other hand, was no less spiritual than Washington, and faced great adversity his entire life, from people bombing his house to wrongfully imprisoning him, and throughout ALL of this abuse, and throughout having to endure being faced daily with his rights as an AMERICAN being disregarded and trampled all over, he preached non-violent protest as a means of achieving equality for his people. Instead of resorting to violence and rioting, he staged sit-ins and protest marches. He respected the laws of this country even when the rights they provide were not being extended to him. If by modern comforts and conveniences you mean that the marchers slept in fields by the road over the course of the march i suppose you are correct, and it certainly should take points off that a security detail was neccessary to protect the marchers, who were exercising their constitutional right of free speech and assembly, from state and local authorities who, in spite of the peaceful intention of the marchers, felt it necessary to beat them bloody with billy clubs and tear gas them for trying to walk 40 miles as a symbol of their opinion that federal laws should be changed. The laws in question were stipulations that in order to register to vote you had to pass a literacy test. Since blacks were not afforded the same quality of education as their white neighbors, less than 50% of them could pass that test, and they couldn’t vote. Maybe I’m just pulling this out of my ass, but i seem to recall another group of people that had a problem with being denied representation within their own government… Thats right, it was the founding fathers who had a problem with taxation without representation. But hey, MLK was black, so obviously he doesn’t deserve the same respect for leading a peaceful revolution within our contry, preserving the civil unity that Washington stressed as being essential to the success of this nation in his farewell address, as Washington deserves for being a great general and a patriot….. I’m gonna go vomit now.
Nicelemon - Washington was not president when he fought in the war, he was elected afterwards. The second continental congress made him commander in chief of the continental army. Granted, that is one of the titles the President now holds, but by no means is it his only or even his primary function. While many modern generals do not march into battle with their troops as he did, to imply that every president since is somehow inferior for not physically leading our troops into battle is hardly reasonable. Why would we put the leader of the free world on the front lines? Washington was a SOLDIER when the revolution was going on, and he knew damn well that the efforts of every soldier on the battlefield, including himself, was necessary to achieve victory. He was an excellent General, and an excellent President after he retired from military service. The two didn’t coincide.
ADD ON of Scott Barry:
(I had to email this because your blogger will not accept my posts as comments, I do not know why. I thank you for taking the time to read this.)
Mr. Warrior,
First off, I can’t believe that you are comparing Martin Luther King to George Washington.
Mr. Washington grew up in a well to do family, rich, wealthy land owner. Slave owner. White man.
Dr. King came from nothing, and created his own way through life, being handed nothing but an opportunity he made the most of.
Yes, I agree that Mr. Washington deserves respect for the founding of this country, but the revolution he fought was not so that all men could be free of oppression. His revolution was fought so that all white, rich, landholding, wealthy men could be free of other white, rich, landholding, wealthy men.
Dr. King was trying to fight a “war” on perception, he truly grasped the fact that “all men are created equal.” Something that you fail to recognise in your postings.
Why should we have to pick A hero? Both of these men, and others before, and after them, have helped form this into a great country where freedom reigns and men, women, and children are afforded luxuries completely unheard of in other countries.
Finally, why is it that anyone who doesn’t see things your way is a fool? You claim to be a lover of this country and a lover of it’s rights and privledges, but you refuse to allow people their opinions? To force your opinions on them and not allow a developing debate? Doesn’t that impede their first amendment right to free speech? You claim to be a Warrior for the American citizen, but you do not accept all views from your American brethren.
Yes you have your say, but, why is someone with a differing viewpoint automatically a fool or a hypocrite? I have left my mind open to ALL points of view, and you have made me rethink things a time or two, however, you need to do the same and learn from your fellow man, not shut them down.
PS: It’s Occam, not Ockham.
Scott Barry
Marketing Analyst
J&A Partners
615/377-9111
scottbarry@japartners.com
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:36 am
If George Washington and Jesus had a fight, I’m pretty sure that George would totally hang for like a while till the J-man got frustrated and busted out his voodoo powers. And speaking of JC, could the Creator create a jelly doughnut that even HE could not devour? Choke on that, Yaweh!
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:38 am
There is a lot of myth attached to Washington. Calling him “a saint” and “perfect” is almost certainly an overstatement, more in line with the fantasy than the reality. Perhaps in that way a paralell can be drawn between George Washington and Jesus of Nazareth.
But, while we have the fantastic tales of the fearless soldier and the selfless statesman, we also know that the man had no qualms about living comfortably at the expense of the less fortunate. Not only a slave owner, the very teeth Washington wore in his mouth were not mythical wood but real teeth yanked from the jaws of the desperate poor.
While the man’s contributions to the founding of the Republic are worthy of great respect, I find George Washington more appealing as the real, flawed, human-being than the deified symbol. Being less than perfect makes the greatness greater.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
Warrior you should run for president ! The united states really needs a man like you to run this poor disgrace of land. Your the only one I see that has the brains and balls to do the job right ! This land of ours makes me ashame to live in. Its sad when a slut’s life story is more imporant then one greatest heroes of time life story. Good God ! Warrior, your the only one that can fix this once great nation of ours. I believe you could turn this sad misable land back to the way it should be, back to the way our founding father’s meant for it too be !
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
But, don’t forget, Nicelemon, that everyone has the opportunity to make a choice as to what will best serve them. After the age of fifteen, school is totally voluntary. Did not Lincoln have very little formal education as well as Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando, for example, have limited(in the sense of college degrees and even high school for Johnny and maybe Marlon)formal educations. In fact, the deciding to follow one’s heart and move on to whatever one feels passionate about OR realizing that HOW you go about your formal education process is equally, if not, more important than getting the degree at the expense of NOT following your heart/gut or NOT selling out. So let us educate youth that you don’t need a college degree and that creativity doesn’t come from following the herd or anyone for that matter. Creativity means to create and to create is not about following or else it wouldn’t be called creative.