Rant #1,510: Looking Back, and Looking Ahead

Yes, today is the so-called "Patriots Day," our honor to those who fell during the 9-11 terrorist attacks on our country back on this date in 2001.

I remember that day so well. It was truly a horrible day, one that I cannot imagine ever happening again.

Or can it?

Yesterday, officials alerted us that at least two planned terrorist attacks had been thwarted. At least one of those plotting such an attack was one of our own, planning this from his dwelling in Florida.

It was going to be something like the Boston bombing, with the intent of injuring, maiming and killing innocent men, women and children at an event in Kansas City.

In today's world, we have to worry about terrorists attacking us from elsewhere, but we also have to worry about domestic terrorists, too.

They are all cut from the same cloth, believing that a massacre will avenge whatever pimple they have up their butts against our way of life.

But you know what? Let's ask ourselves this one question: What have we learned since the original 9-11?

I don't think we have learned very much.

We have an administration which bows down to every piece of garbage who sets foot here, taking a politically correct stance so as not to offend anyone, except Americans themselves.

We should be offending people. Maybe then, they will understand that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave, and not a place to take advantage of such an idiotic environment that we live in today.

What have we learned about dealing with terrorists?

Rather than try to wipe them out by any force necessary, we actually sit down and bargain with them, and then settle for whatever we can get.

Look at the Iran nuclear deal--who really benefits from this other than terrorists, people who literally want to wipe us off the face of the earth?

We are dealing with people who brazenly state that they will do just that too, and do just that to one of our great international friends, Israel.

This is who we are settling with?

If we took this tack during World War II, it is almost a certainty that you and I wouldn't be here now.

One day, I would like to be a grandfather. I fear that with our current stance, bringing children into this world is something that really, truly has to be thought about.

What type of world are they going to live in?

And then, we all wonder why somebody like Donald Trump has become so popular.

He is a creation of the current environment, that is for sure.

He could not get away with some of the things he has said and believes in during the past presidential elections, no way, no how.

But he can today, because people are fed up with the environment we are in right now, and whether you like it or not, he is speaking for those disenfranchised people who feel that our country is slipping through its own created cracks, and is no longer what we once were.

I am not saying that I agree with everything he says and does, but he does make some valid points. 

In today's world, independent thought is quashed, mind control is in.

This guy has proven that he does think independently, and he certainly does not believe in mind control in any way, shape or form.

He puts what he believes out on the table for everyone to see, hear and feel.

But let me tell you, there are a growing number of people who are fed up with our current environment, have had it up to here with the PC Police hovering over them at every instance, and want to break free from the confines imposed upon us by our elected government officials, in particular those that have their own agendas to carve into our foreheads.

Sure, it is a grass roots movement, but the popularity of Trump shows that it is growing.

So, I guess, in conclusion, we have learned something from 9-11, or at least some people have learned something:

Do not settle for the current norm, because it isn't worth it.

Strive to be what we should be, rather than what others feel we are.

And hug your kids today if you can.

They are our future, and we have to provide them with a world that they can live in peacefully and comfortably.

They deserve that from all of us, and that is being a true Patriot, not some fabrication as others would like us to be.

And one last word, to my Jewish friends: L'Shana Tova.

As our New Year begins with Rosh Hashanah this Sunday night, let's keep in mind that there are those around the world who would like to rid us from this earth.

And let's reaffirm to these people, in whatever way we celebrate the holiday, that, well, it ain't gonna happen--unless, in our ignorance, we allow it to happen.

Simple as that.

Speak to you again on Monday.