November 15, 2025

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
The Star Spangled Banner — The perilous fight goes on and on it seems, no?

There seems to be confusion regarding what the flag stands for. The Bill of Rights spells it out, but the Constitution itself is out of vogue these days. What’s with that? Who spits on the Constitution and supplants it with whatever he’s in the mood for? How did that attitude get to be President of the United States? How can 77 million people vote for that? Embrace that? Shout YES to that? Who stops the President from tearing down the White House? Why isn’t he stopped anywhere ever? The system of checks and balances failed spectacularly. No? No is a word without referent these days. A meaningless word. A word not in the vocabulary of those who cannot take it for an answer and do what they feel like doing anyway, nevertheless, even so. They wouldn’t have ended slavery. They wouldn’t have opposed fascism. They wouldn’t have stood for anything the Bill of Rights would espouse. Who are these people with no love of/for Justice! Freedom! Equality! Truth!? Where did they come from? They are disgusting Boors who do not belong!

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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  1. Yes! To your words! The next generations will have to champion whatever principles they rediscover are valuable to them.

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