Jeremy Herndon

I just read that Sarah Palin is resigning as governor of Alaska!  She had two years left to serve in her term.  She’s being very vague about the reason she is resigning, saying she can better serve America outside a government role.  I wonder what that means!  I can’t imagine that doing this will improve her odds of ever winning the Presidency!  What a shocker!

I think it is very interesting how the elementary school children in the public school system are taught one version of American history and that it takes a very long time for them to learn about all of the “skeletons” in the American closet!  Once they learn about all of the sordid details of the “bad” parts of the American history, it’s a miracle that they have any patriotism left at all!  I think it’s only natural for the college students to become disappointed and disillusioned with the country.

Which is really too bad, because even thought there have been a lot of bad things in the American past, the country IS growing and trying to improve!  The fact that the American President is bi-racial is proof of that growth!  I think that the American flag is going to be getting a lot more respect now that President Obama is making so many positive changes.

We have an American flag that hangs on a bracket attached to a post on our front porch.  It is getting pretty rough looking; I am thinking that it is just about time we got a new one.  I’d like to get a tall flagpole to install in our garden as a centerpiece and put a new flag there.  I think that would look really nice.

I read that the New York Post offered a half- ***ed apology for their very offensive editorial cartoon that depicted two police officers shooting a chimpanzee and implying that a monkey could have drafted a better stimulus package.  Their apology was sort of “if we really offended you, we’re sorry but if you are only pretending to be offended and are really just trying to stir up trouble for us because you are our enemy, then we aren’t sorry at all!”

Then they go on to claim that they were not targeting the President, but Congress in general.  Well, since WE, THE PEOPLE elect ALL OF THEM to office, then WE SHOULD BE OFFENDED that they are telling US that we are pretty stupid to be electing a bunch of monkeys to run our government!  And if we ARE that stupid, who is to blame?  The NEWSPAPERS who did not give us enough information about the candidates who were elected!  If we are to be expected to elect people to run the country, we need to have enough information about them to make SMART decisions, and that responsibility SHOULD lie with the news media!

The New York Post newspaper ran an editorial cartoon showing two policemen killing a chimpanzee by shooting him, and then saying “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

I don’t see how anyone could think that was funny in the least. A lot of very smart people worked on the stimulus bill, and there has not been any time at all given to the bill to work, and already some smart-alec guy implies that a monkey could do as good a job as that? Not funny at all.