Neanderpundit

a bunch of my fork kin in other countries right now, acting as missionaries.

A powerful lot of them are babtists and Pentecostals, but we try not to hold it against them. I remember Dad having to take one uncle aside and explain to him that if he and his wife ever told my sister that all Catholics go to hell and made her cry again, Dad was going to arrange for a personal audience between my uncle and Jesus Christ himself.

They were always at our house, it seemed, because when they had finished their travels through the US, thrashing the locals for donations to help support their missions, they ended up in Hoosieropolis, broke, car a wreck, kids half starved, and exhausted. Dad and I would patch their car together, Mom and Sis would cook for them until you could no longer easily see their ribs and mend their clothes, and we would get them an audience with the local Baptist church whose congregation often contributed more for their mission than the hundreds of churches they had visited in their US tour.

Ordinarily a goodbye consisted of them offering to pray that we came to our senses before we all died and went to hell, but there was never any thanks for anything we’d done for them. I wondered why Dad kept it up all those years.

They would drive off to the coast where they would sell their car and use the money to buy steerage passage on a freighter and get back to their mission in Germany, or Poland, or wherever they were converting the wogs this year.

I am constantly astounded by the pick and choose nature of most Christians, and this last Sunday, when the Gospel focused on the Good Samaritan, it comes into focus more than at any other time in the cycle. Dad did what he did because it was the right thing to do, even though his own family thought he was insane and there was never any thanks.

I hope someday to be half the man he was.

in the company of good friends, eating good food, having good conversations of the face to face variety. Sort of a mini blogmeet, with dogs. Even the dogs are good, though I have yet to meet the dog who isn’t.

A George Zimmerman. A guy with a trunkload of Tactical shit who wants ot be a cop so bad he can taste it, and for whatever reason couldn’t cut the mustard. Certainly, they are as common as Kel-Tecs.

That don’t make them bad people- and in many cases, they’re pretty decent people indeed.

The left in this country has been utterly unsuccessful in removing our guns, but it has used racism to make sure we’re all terrified to use them.

me, I’m a hunter. I like to hunt, and I hunt to eat what I kill. if it were my desire, however farfetched that might be, to kill someone, I would probably not use a firearm of any type, and I pray that I am never in a circumstance where any action like that is necessary. Further, I actively avoid situations where that would be possible.

Zimmerman didn’t. it does not make him a hero, nor does it make him a criminal. it certainly does not make him a racist- and anyone who says so is by definition a racist. if you single out this incident and ignore all the rest of the brown people being killed, you could not be any more racist than that, and all racism is ugly.

Trayvon died because he thought he was a big dog thug. Being black had nothing to do with it, unless you contend that blacks have the right to act that way. Which also makes you a racist.