Category: Kilroy Says
KILROY SAYS: Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
Written by Troglodad
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 08:44
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Now that Halloween is over, the stores are in full swing for Christmas- with decorations, toys and sales out in full force. And, if you look real hard, some Thanksgiving decorations are in there too.

I'm not really sure which angers me more- my wife trying to buy Thanksgiving decorations, the lack of them in the stores, or the fact that the stores basically overlook Thanksgiving.

Don't get me wrong- the birth of Jesus is very important. We should celebrate it. A lot. But somehow, I don't think that the aisles and aisles of tacky decorations, self-illuminated trees and Christmas Barbies are all that religiously significant. More like a way to seperate greedy fools from their money.

Thanksgiving is the celebration of being thankful for what we have- not of what we can get. We're all told the story as children of the poor pilgrims who didn't plan for winter and the indians (or Native Americans, if you prefer) brought them food and basically kept their dumb asses alive. The Pilgrims are very thankful in this tale. And our tradition of gorging ourselves and inviting others to our home to do the same comes from this thankfulness.

So should we be running out to buy up a bunch of turkey decorations? No. We should be happy with what we have. Make do with what we have and be grateful we have even that. Does that mean the stores' lack of turkey stuff mean they grasp the make do with what you have philosophy? No, they just want to get a jump on the holiday sales. And in so doing, they've brainwashed our populace into buy, buy, buy on November 1st.

So when you're out, driving like an idiot in an effort to steal parking spaces, or shuffling along like the undead in the stores, Christmas list in one hand, coupons in the other, be thankful. Be thankful for something. The coupons, the fact you have money to spend, or maybe the fact you live in a country that allows you the freedom to act so foolishly.

 
KILROY SAYS: You Can’t Eat a Bandaid
Written by Troglodad
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:03
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Government run healthcare is such a noble aspiration, when you think about it. The government stepping in to help the poor, sickly and downtrodden who can't afford to help themselves. At least, that's what's being proposed right now.

But there is a bigger issue the government should be addressing. Malnutrition.

As mind-boggling as it may seem, there are people going hungry in the United States right now. There are children who aren't being given sufficient nutrition. Homeless people who have to beg on the side of the road for their next meal.

How do we fix that problem? Can we slap a big bandaid on their belly, give them two aspirin and shove them out the door?

Not having healthcare won't necessarily kill you. People recover from colds, flus and even amputations all the time.

Not eating will definitely kill you.

Nutrition is probably the number one preventative medicine in the history of mankind. Our extended lifespans in the 21st Century are undoubtably the result of better food. Sure, medicine has made great strides in correcting illnesses and ailments, but what about preventing them to begin with?

I remember during the Reagan years the government handing out cheese. We all joked about it, but I wonder how many people directly benefitted from that cheese. How many people had a meal because of that cheese? And what about Food Stamps? The government is already involved in feeding some of the populace. Why not expand that existing program?

If the Left truly wants to make America healthier, let's start at the breakfast table. Instead of taxing soda in an effort to reduce people's consumption of it, because it is linked to obesity, why not get people eating healthier? Why not outlaw some of the crap people consume everyday, like overly-sugared breakfast cereals or diet pills designed to trick you into feeling like you've eaten.

A healthier-eating America will be a healthier America.

Healthcare for all is a grand idea, but a better one is to provide good food for all.

Share Our Strength’s Great American Dine Out is a national campaign that helps bring the restaurant industry together to make sure that no child in the US grows up hungry. From September 20-26, 2009, participating restaurants across the nation will donate up to 5% of that week’s sales, generating millions of dollars to help Share Our Strength end childhood hunger in America.

 
KILROY SAYS… Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
Written by Kilroy
Wednesday, 12 August 2009 08:41
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My, how times have changed.

Back when the U.S. was a colony of the British Empire, Puritans said "Gimme some land to live on, where I can practice religion as I see fit!" Then it became "Gimme some protection from the savages!" Then it became "Gimme representation with my taxation!" Finally, it became "Gimme Liberty or gimme death!"

It pretty much stayed that way for a long time.

Up to the 1930s, I reckon, when some socialists started pandering to people fallen on hard times. Uncle Sam switched from being a defender of life and liberty to a (New) Dealer. Handing out freebies, like drug dealers giving out free samples to get you hooked.

And hooked is what our population has become.

"Gimme Welfare!" They have cried for years and years. Did the Founding Fathers have welfare? If their crops didn't come in, were their neighbors forced to help them by means of increased taxes, and Colonial cheese? Or did neighbors help each other out because it was the right thing to do?

Ironically, it was an adulterous democrat that pointed out the unAmerican gimminess of the population: John F. Kennedy. "Ask not what your country can do for you…" Sadly, most devilcrats today seem to have completely missed the point of that statement.

"Gimme free healthcare!" the leftards keep chanting. Okay, we'll give you the same healthcare the Founding Fathers had. I'm sure Benjamin Franklin didn't have to pay for those spectacles he wore- insurance covered them, right?

What's next for the gimmes? Free TVs? Free car insurance? How much room is there for Nazi Pelosi and Chairman Maobama to pencil more "rights" into the Constitution? You know, like the "right" to have insurance. Or the "right" to have an abortion- funded with tax dollars.

Eventually, will there be nothing but citizens sitting at home on their government couches, watching government flatscreen tvs tuned to Oprah? Who will work to be taxed, to pay for these things? Whatever group is chosen to be the slave laborers of the Gimme nation, will probably not be too happy about it. "Gimme freedom, or gimme death!" they will surely shout.

The Founding Fathers weren't given much. They had to make their own country. By working hard, rather than hardly working. They wrote very clearly that all men had a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Insurance doesn't cover any of those.

The Left and Prez Zero keep telling you, you have a right to this and that and anything else that will keep you happy. They know all too well the bulk of the populous are just as the Japanese described us back in the 1980s- fat and lazy. Gimme, gimme, gimme?

Gimme a break.