Neanderpundit

I was going to have to do this.

I went out to dad’s gravesite today, cleaned the stone, chased away a few spiders, discouraged some lichens.

I have been in my life, fortunate enough to have known a handful of truly great men, men whose lives and accomplishments were admirable beyond belief.

I feel I have walked in the company of saints.

My father was one of those.

Everyone who knew him felt the same, to a man.

I was lucky enough to have gotten to know him, and even get past being an asshole kid and treat him as a friend, before he died, long before his time, at age 57.

Today I stood at his grave and longed for him, wished he was here to answer my questions, to mentor me as only he could, to be Dad. I wished he could feel my daughter’s tender cheek against his stubbly face. I wished my daughter could know him, be with him, walk hand in hand with him.

I bear a horrible and awesome burden, the burden of raising a child. Most times I have no idea what I’m doing. Dad was incredibly wise in that respect.

I hope I can be to my daughter a small portion of what he was to me. I pray that he acts as her guardian angel.

I miss dad. I miss him so damned much it tears me up inside. It’s tearing me up to type this now.

I guess I’m lucky that he wasn’t a bastard, someone I didn’t care less about, but he was an incredible man, and if I’m ever a tenth the man he was I’ll be a giant.

If you love your dad, if he means anything to you, I hope you were good to him on this day. All i can do, is clean dad’s headstone, and try to raise my daughter as best I can.

At mass this morning they played my favorite song, “all that is hidden” by Bernadette Farrell, and Dad’s favorite song, “Amazing Grace”.

That’s about all I can say, right now. Happy Father’s day.

Why Dick Durbin isn’t being drawn and quartered for treason?

And, if our government hasn’t got the balls to do this necesary thing, why decent Illinoisians haven’t strung his treasonous ass up from a lamppost? We cannot tolerate this any longer.

Listen: Gitmo detainees are treated better than a lot of US prisoners. I KNOW. I have WORKED in the US prison system. Terrorists are being given more rights.

Think it’s accurate to compare gulags or nazi camps to Gitmo? Face it, you’re just stupid, you’re not merely wrong, you’ve drunk the coolaid so long you have NO idea what the truth is. here’s the truth: these assholes are enemy combatants. We have the right to kill them. Period. We owe them nothing.

people went to gulags and nazi camps in masses, never to return. No due process. No court. Just torture (horrendous torture, that would make you vomit to hear about it) starvation, abuse, and death. No, nothing like Gitmo at all. Fact is, the state officials that SENT the people to the death camps and gulags? probably don’t live as comfortably as the average Gitmo detainee. It’s the truth. Don’t agree? you’re wrong, provably, demonstrably wrong, and you better get used to the idea.

And get rid of this treasonous partisan asshole. He has lost his membership in the human race.