#287: Assassination Day Ponderings

Forty-five years ago on this very day, I was playing volley ball in Morrison Elementary School's yard when we were herded into the gym by our teacher. We then found out that President John F. Kennedy had been shot not too long before that particular time. I vaguely remember several of the girls doing a lot of weeping and wailing. Can't say I was overly affected...hey, I was 12 and "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them." It just occurred to me as I was thinking about that day...it must have been moderately warm for a bunch of 12-year-olds to be outside in late November, 1963 playing volley ball for gym class...unlike the 25 degrees we're experiencing at the moment with a high of 33 coming, according to Yahoo Weather.

Well, I just learned yesterday that Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently is going to be our next Secretary of State, arguably the de facto second most powerful position in our government even though it is fourth in line of Presidential Succession behind the VP, Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate (usually the senior member of the majority party). So, for you folks keeping track of such things, if President Barracks Obomber gets offed, the order of succession is Joe Biden-time, Nancy Italian-American Cali Girl Pelosi, Robert Byrdman of Alcatraz, and then Hillarity Clintonista. Since it would be politically incorrect to suggest any animosity among this group of political stars in our governmental heaven, I simple ask the question...
Got Night of the Long Knives?

Oh, yeah, yesterday I heard Glenn Beck talking with Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism, who shows parallels in American Liberalism with Hitler and Mussolini in their rise to power and philosophies of government. Goldberg thinks America's not rooted in violence enough to become another Nazi (that stands for National Socialism!!) Germany, but Beck thinks it might be. Let me point out that the first Presidential assassination attempt in America was against Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835...that would be 163 years ago. Let me note, too, that the "USofA" was begun with the American Revolution...8 years of armed warfare.
We've fought the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars, the War of Texas Independence, the Mexican American War, the Bleeding Kansas "war," the Civil War (check out God Caused the Civil War by yours truly through Inter-Library Loan at Westminster Seminary), the Indian Wars of the 1870s, the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and the Iraqi-American War.

Seems to me we have enough history. Got Barbarians?