M Is For—-Gimme A Break!
Back in the day, when I was a child, Mother’s Day was about giving cards and gifts, sometimes handmade, sometimes bought at the local five and dime, financed by our dads. I cherish the various Beanie Babies and glass figurines my son has given me over the years for Mother’s Day.
What fools we were! If we had been Democrats we would have known that Mother’s Day was about “A Mother’s Day Manifesto and the Democratic Agenda”, variations on “If Women Ruled The World There Would Be No Wars”, motherhood as an expression of imperialist aggression and keeping slaves in slavery.
For links to this whole sorry cavalcade of “progressivism”, go here.
Nancy Pelosi’s post at HuffingtonPost titled As A Mother really frosted my Beanie Babies. Pelosi quotes Julia Ward Howe in l870 calling for everyone to lay down their arms, give peace a chance, etc. This was obviously Howe’s reaction to the carnage of the Civil War in which an estimated 618,000 Americans died. Not 6,000, but over a half a million. Nancy approves of Howe’s anti-war stance, yet Pelosi’s ignorance of history, willful or not, indicates that Pelosi believes that slavery should have been allowed to continue so that the 618,000 would have been spared. I just hope Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don’t get wind of this!
So all you Democrat mommies out there, enjoy your “Give Peace A Chance” Mother’s Day, and instead of heartfelt gifts from your children, I’m sure you’ll appreciate a donation to MoveOn.org in your name.
Enjoy!
UPDATE (5/14/07): When I focused on Julia Ward Howe’s post-Civil War activities, I had completely forgotten that she was an ardent abolitionist and wrote “The Battle Hymn Of the Republic”—-not exactly “All We Are Saying Is Give Peace A Chance”! I suppose once her goal of abolishing slavery was reached, at the cost of 600,000+ lives, she could comfortably slip into the pacifism which she adopted AFTER the war.
Peace only works when all sides are interested. There has been almost none of that during the whole existence of mankind. A line from one of my favorite (Sci-Fi of course
) books “With Friends Like These”, by Alan Dean Foster, makes the observation that mankind is the only creature that actually exposes its fangs as an expression of friendship. Perhaps it is an appropriate gesture considering our bloodthirst and ruthlessness nature.
Comment by thescoundrel | May 13, 2007
Pelosi gets a lot of foot in mouth disease, but what’s wrong with peace??? I can’t wait until humans finally become enlightened enough to get along. We have made progress, but there is still so far to go.
Comment by Robbie | May 13, 2007
Peace is a wonderful and highly improbable fantasy; just do not hold your breath hoping to see it come around in your lifetime. No, we have not made any real progress in the pursuit of peace. We have made progress in serving it lip service. But in the real world we have become a more efficient and calculated killer. For peace to be a reality it would require a unifying source. Yet each different society puts a dissimilar classification and value on human life. Not to distress you, but it is not likely you will ever see in your or even your childrens’ children’s lifetime a unifying source that will solidify this country or the world; unless like me, you plan on living forever. There are just too many disparate visions within this country about the value and definition of life. Even great peacemakers like Christ and Gandhi have been unable to halt the bloodthirst of mankind. Perhaps peace is not meant to be. Peace suggests a docile and stagnant society. A great part of our evolution and development owes its success to our feral and aggressive nature to be the Alpha and Omega. Those that have lead successful portions of societies, even in areas of science, tend to flirt with aggression and mass extinction over safety and peaceful coexistence. Maybe I will see an improvement sometime in the next few centuries but I am not holding my breath that long. But then again who gets to determine if it classifies as an improvement. In defining life one man’s improvement could be another’s degeneration.
Comment by thescoundrel | May 14, 2007
Robbie, there is nothing wrong with “peace”, but what frosted my turnips was the politicization of Mother’s Day.
I blogged a while back on how some left-wing organization was having a children’s Cluster Bomb Hunt at the same time that the WH was having their Easter Egg Roll across the street. Children hunting for cluster bombs (fake, of course!)—–sweet, huh?
THAT PO’d me as well.
Comment by qcexaminer | May 14, 2007
Yeah I remember that blog. Geez, democrats try to politicize things all the time eh??? Both parties are full of idiots. I just like the general positions of my idiots a little bit more.
Comment by Robbie | May 14, 2007